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Study: Biodiversity of Ordovician radiation unrelated to asteroid breakup
Feb 03, 2017 (UPI)
New research undermines the supposed correlation between an ancient asteroid collision and an uptick in biodiversity on Earth. Roughly 470 million years ago, Ea...
Complex bacterium writes new evolutionary story
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
A University of Queensland-led international study has discovered a new type of bacterial structure which has previously only been seen in more complex cells. R...
Low level of oxygen delayed evolution for 2 billion years
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
A low level of atmospheric oxygen in Earth's middle ages held back evolution for 2 billion years, raising fresh questions about the origins of life on this plan...
Mechanism for photosynthesis already existed in primeval microbe
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
A Japanese research group led by Associate Professor ASHIDA Hiroki (Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University), Academic Researcher ...
Paper spotlights key flaw in widely used radioisotope dating technique
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
An oversight in a radioisotope dating technique used to date everything from meteorites to geologic samples means that scientists have likely overestimated the ...
500-million year-old species offers insights into the lives of ancient legged worms
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
A new species of lobopodian, a worm-like animal with soft legs from the Cambrian period (541 to 485 million years ago), has been described for the first time fr...
African lake provides new clues about ancient marine life
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
New research shows there may have been more nitrogen in the ocean between one and two billion years ago than previously thought, allowing marine organisms to pr...
Discovery of new fossil from half billion years ago sheds light on life on Earth
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
Dr Tom Harvey from the Department of Geology, University of Leicester, together with Professor Nicholas Butterfield, University of Cambridge, discovered the new...
Bag-like sea creature was humans' oldest known ancestor
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers have identified traces of what they believe is the earliest known prehistoric ancestor of humans - a microscopic, bag-like sea creature, which lived...
Andalusian scientists reconstruct what the Gibraltar Arc was like 9 million years ago
Jan 31, 2017 (SPX)
A team of Andalusian scientists, led by the University of Granada (UGR), has been able to reconstruct for the first time what the Gibraltar Arc was like 9 milli...
Exceptionally preserved Jurassic sea life found in new fossil site
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
A trove of exceptionally preserved Jurassic marine fossils discovered in Canada, rare for recording soft-bodied species that normally don't fossilize, is expand...
Ancient, scary and alien-looking specimen forms a rarity in the insect world - a new order
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered a 100-million-year-old insect preserved in amber with a triangular head, almost-alien and "E.T.-like" app...
Scientists map the genetic evolution of dinoflagellates for the first time
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
A group scientists have used new genetic sequencing data to understand how an ancient organism that lived alongside the dinosaurs has evolved over millions of y...
Giant wolf-size otters once roamed China
Jan 24, 2017 (AFP)
A wolf-sized otter with crushing jaws once prowled southwestern China, according to scientists, who say the discovery of the animal's fossilised remains could i...
80-million-year-old dinosaur collagen confirmed
Jan 24, 2017 (SPX)
Utilizing the most rigorous testing methods to date, researchers from North Carolina State University have isolated additional collagen peptides from an 80-mill...
Bacterial discovery complicates previous paleontological findings
Jan 23, 2017 (UPI)
Until now, scientists thought the lipid isoarborinol, a fatty molecule, was only produced by flowering plants, or angiosperms. As such, paleontologists interpre...
Fossils found reveal unseen 'footprint' maker
Jan 18, 2017 (SPX)
Fossils found in Morocco from the long-extinct group of sea creatures called trilobites, including rarely seen soft-body parts, may be previously unseen animals...
Complex life may have come and gone in Earth's distant past
Jan 18, 2017 (SPX)
Conditions suitable to support complex life may have developed in Earth's oceans - and then faded - more than a billion years before life truly took hold, a new...
Paleontologists classify mysterious ancient cone-shaped sea creatures
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
One branch on the tree of life is a bit more crowded today. A team of scientists led by 20-year-old University of Toronto (U of T) undergraduate student Joseph ...
India was by no means as isolated as we thought
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
India gradually drifted away from Africa and Madagascar towards the north and collided with the Eurasian plate. Scientists assumed for a long time that the subc...
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