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Diverse array of dinosaur tracks mark Australia's 'Jurassic Park'

Mar 27, 2017 (UPI)

Scientists have discovered an unprecedented diversity of dinosaur tracks along a stretch of Australia's Dampier Peninsula coastline. Researchers dubbed the foss...

New study shakes the roots of the dinosaur family tree

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

More than a century of theory about the evolutionary history of dinosaurs has been turned on its head following the publication of new research from scientists ...

Research proposes new theories about nature of Earth's iron

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

New research challenges the prevailing theory that the unique nature of Earth's iron was the result of how its core was formed billions of years ago. The study ...

Chinese police arrest dinosaur-egg bandit

Mar 20, 2017 (AFP)

Chinese police have arrested a man accused of stealing dozens of fossilised dinosaur eggs, state media said Monday, but some eggs are apparently still unaccount...

Recovery after 'great dying' was slowed by more extinctions

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers studying marine fossil beds in Italy have found that the world's worst mass extinction was followed by two other extinction events, a conclusion tha...

Copper-bottomed deposits

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

The world's most valuable copper deposits, known as porphyry deposits, originate from cooling magma. But how can we predict the size of these deposits? What fac...

Early Earth had a hazy, methane-filled atmosphere

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

More than 2.4 billion years ago, Earth's atmosphere was inhospitable, filled with toxic gases that drove wildly fluctuating surface temperatures. Understanding ...

Microbes Set The Stage For First Animals

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

It is thought that animal life first arose during the Ediacaran Period, between 635 and 541 million years ago, but these organisms bore little resemblance to th...

New study identifies ancient shark ancestors

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

New research based on x-ray imaging provides the strongest evidence to date that sharks arose from a group of bony fishes called acanthodians. Analyzing an extr...

World's oldest plant-like fossils discovered

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

Scientists at the Swedish Museum of Natural History have found fossils of 1.6 billion-year-old probable red algae. The spectacular finds, publishing on 14 March...

Ancient southern China fish may have evolved prior to the 'Age of Fish'

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

An ancient fish species with unusual scales and teeth from the Kuanti Formation in southern China may have evolved prior to the "Age of Fish", according to a st...

Vision, not limbs, led fish onto land 385 million years ago

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

provocative new Northwestern University and Claremont McKenna, Scripps and Pitzer colleges study suggests it was the power of the eyes and not the limbs that fi...

A new tool for genetically engineering the oldest branch of life

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

A new study by G. William Arends Professor of Microbiology at the University of Illinois Bill Metcalf with postdoctoral Fellow Dipti Nayak has documented the us...

The protective layer of prehistoric land plants

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

An international research team has discovered a biochemical pathway that is responsible for the development of moss cuticles. These waxy coverings of epidermal ...

Crocodiles and dolphins evolved similar skulls to catch the same prey: Study finds

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

A new study involving biologists from Monash University Australia has found that despite their very different ancestors, dolphins and crocodiles evolved similar...

The cold exterminated all of them

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

The Earth has known several mass extinctions over the course of its history. One of the most important happened at the Permian-Triassic boundary 250 million yea...

Evidence disproving tropical 'thermostat' theory

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

New research findings show that as the world warmed millions of years ago, conditions in the tropics may have made it so hot some organisms couldn't survive. Lo...

Researchers investigate evolution of bipedalism in ancient dinosaur ancestors

Mar 06, 2017 (SPX)

Paleontologists at the University of Alberta have developed a new theory to explain why the ancient ancestors of dinosaurs stopped moving about on all fours and...

World's oldest fossils unearthed

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

Remains of microorganisms at least 3,770 million years old have been discovered by an international team led by UCL scientists, providing direct evidence of one...

Mid-Mesozoic beetle in amber stirs questions on rise of flowering plants and pollinators

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

Named for Charles Darwin, the only known specimen of a newly discovered beetle, Darwinylus marcosi, died in a sticky gob of tree sap some 105 million years ago ...