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Patagonian fossil leaves reveal rapid recovery from dinosaur extinction event
Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)
Ancient feeding marks from hungry insects in South American leaf fossils are shedding new light on the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. Scientists ...
Toothed turtles stuck around longer than scientists thought
Nov 08, 2016 (UPI)
Scientists thought turtles with teeth disappeared around 190 million years ago, but new evidence suggests the toothed reptiles stuck it out for an extra 30 mill...
Symbiotic relationship crucial to reef survival dates to the Triassic
Nov 07, 2016 (SPX)
The mutually beneficial relationship between algae and modern corals - which provides algae with shelter, gives coral reefs their colors and supplies both organ...
Chemical analysis demonstrates communal nesting in dinosaurs
Nov 03, 2016 (SPX)
The reproductive behaviors of birds are some of their most conspicuous and endearing qualities. From the colorful mating display of some birds, like peacocks, t...
A 'transitional fossil' debunked
Nov 03, 2016 (SPX)
Snakes are a very diverse group of present-day reptiles, with nearly 3,600 known species. They are readily recognized by their long bodies and lack of limbs. Th...
133 million-year-old dinosaur brain fossil found in England
Nov 03, 2016 (SPX)
Soft tissues such as hearts and muscles are very rarely preserved in the fossil record. For that reason, nearly all study of dinosaur soft tissue has to be reco...
Giant extinct salmon fought with spike teeth during upriver spawning events
Nov 03, 2016 (SPX)
The ancient coastal waters of the Pacific, roughly 11 to 5 million years ago, were home to a bizarre and fascinating species of giant salmon with large spike-li...
Did Early Earth Spin On Its Side
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
New theoretical modeling of the ancient history of the Earth and the Moon suggests that the giant collision that spawned our natural satellite may have left Ear...
Eyes came before limbs in the transition to land
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
The transition to land from our fishy ancestors is one of the most iconic, and best documented, transitions in the fossil record. We know that fleshy-limbed fis...
Modeling the vertebrate invasion of land
Nov 01, 2016 (SPX)
Early tetrapods, such as Ichthyostega, moved onto land from aquatic environments over 350 million years ago. Skeletal anatomy demonstrates that the front and hi...
Fossilized dinosaur brain tissue identified for the first time
Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)
An unassuming brown pebble, found more than a decade ago by a fossil hunter in Sussex, has been confirmed as the first example of fossilised brain tissue from a...
Scientists trace plant hormone pathway back 450 million years
Oct 25, 2016 (SPX)
Purdue scientists got a glimpse into more than 450 million years of evolution by tracing the function of a hormone pathway that has been passed along and co-opt...
Early fossil fish from China shows where our jaws came from
Oct 24, 2016 (SPX)
Where did our jaws come from? The question is more complicated than it seems, because not all jaws are the same. In a new article, published in Science, palaeon...
How snakes lost a blueprint for making limbs
Oct 24, 2016 (SPX)
Snakes lost their limbs over 100 million years ago, but scientists have struggled to identify the genetic changes involved. A Cell paper publishing October 20 s...
Coastal spider ancestors may have dispersed eastward across Southern Hemisphere oceans
Oct 17, 2016 (SPX)
Coastal spiders may have undergone transoceanic dispersal eastward from South America to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand as the Amaurobioides genus evol...
A short jump from single-celled ancestors to animals
Oct 17, 2016 (SPX)
The first animals evolved from their single-celled ancestors around 800 million years ago, but new evidence suggests that this leap to multi-celled organisms in...
Fast driver spotted on evolutionary tracks
Oct 17, 2016 (SPX)
Living things have long used a previously unrecognized method for diversifying and evolving. This strategy, as reported this week in Science, could account for ...
Drivers of evolution hidden in plain sight
Oct 17, 2016 (SPX)
Research led by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the University of Washington has shown that the biological diversity needed for evolution c...
Unique skin impressions of the last dinosaurs discovered in Barcelona
Oct 17, 2016 (SPX)
A geological research conducted in the village of Vallcebre, near Barcelona, to study the origins of rock sediments from the Late Cretaceous period (approx. 66 ...
A new 'king' - New, gigantic, ancient armored fish discovered
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
We've all seen "Jurassic Park." We all know T. rex. But what about B. rex? Thanks to a team of scientists from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel Univers...
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