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Chemistry says Moon is proto-Earth's mantle, relocated

Sep 14, 2016 (SPX)

Measurements of an element in Earth and Moon rocks have just disproved the leading hypotheses for the origin of the Moon. Tiny differences in the segregation of...

Researchers name a new species of reptile from 212 million years ago

Sep 13, 2016 (SPX)

An extinct reptile related to crocodiles that lived 212 million years ago in present day New Mexico has been named as a new species, Vivaron haydeni, in a paper...

History of tetrapod move onto land rewriten

Sep 12, 2016 (SPX)

This week in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France and the U...

Earth's Carbon Points to Planetary Smashup

Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)

In a new study this week in Nature Geoscience, Rice petrologist Rajdeep Dasgupta and colleagues offer a new answer to a long-debated geological question: How di...

A monster put in its place

Sep 05, 2016 (SPX)

An analysis of the fossil known as the Minden Monster has enabled paleontologists to assign the largest predatory dinosaur ever found in Germany to a previously...

Move over Nessie: Real Scottish sea monster found

Sep 05, 2016 (AFP)

A toothy, dolphin-like predator which prowled the oceans in the Jurassic era, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, has been uncovered in a Scottish museum where it ...

3.7 billion-year-old microbial fossils unearthed in Greenland

Sep 01, 2016 (UPI)

Newly unearthed microbial fossils suggests life thrived on Earth earlier than previously thought. A team of Australian researchers have discovered 3.7 billion-y...

A rare small specimen discovered from the age of flying giants

Aug 31, 2016 (SPX)

A rare small-bodied pterosaur, a flying reptile from the Late Cretaceous period approximately 77 million years ago, is the first of its kind to have been discov...

Looking to saliva to gain insight on evolution

Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)

There's no need to reinvent the genetic wheel. That's one lesson of a new study that looks to the saliva of humans, gorillas, orangutans, macaques and African g...

Arctic gives clues on worst mass extinction of life

Aug 26, 2016 (SPX)

96 percent of marine species, and 70 percent of terrestrial life died off in the Permian-Triassic extinction event, as geologists know it. It is also known as T...

Beetles pollinated orchids millions of year ago, fossil evidence shows

Aug 23, 2016 (SPX)

When most people hear the word "pollinator," they think of bees and butterflies. However, certain beetles are known to pollinate plants as well, and new fossil ...

Humble moss helped create our oxygen-rich atmosphere

Aug 17, 2016 (SPX)

The evolution of the first land plants including mosses may explain a long-standing mystery of how Earth's atmosphere became enriched with oxygen, according to ...

Unearthed: The cannibal sharks of a forgotten age

Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists have discovered macabre fossil evidence suggesting that 300 million-year-old sharks ate their own young, as fossil poop of adult Orthacanthus sharks ...

Moss boosted Earth's oxygen 400 million yrs ago: study

Aug 15, 2016 (AFP)

Scientists have long wondered what gave Earth enough oxygen to support the rise of animals and people, and researchers said Monday they believe it all started w...

New finding helps understand feeding ecology of Pleistocene proboscideans

Aug 08, 2016 (SPX)

The proboscidean fossil record in China is characterized by a high evolutionary rate, wide spatio-temporal distribution and richness of environmental indicators...

University of Leicester discovery sheds light on how vertebrates see

Aug 05, 2016 (SPX)

New research led by the University of Leicester has overturned a long-standing theory on how vertebrates evolved their eyes by identifying remarkable details of...

New fossil evidence supports theory that first mass extinction engineered by early animals

Aug 02, 2016 (SPX)

Newly discovered fossil evidence from Namibia strengthens the proposition that the world's first mass extinction was caused by "ecosystem engineers" - newly evo...

'Ecosystem engineers' responsible for first mass extinction

Jul 29, 2016 (UPI)

Some 540 million years ago, the first animals disappeared. It's an event known as the end-Ediacaran extinction. New research suggests another group of early ani...

Before animals, evolution waited eons to inhale

Jul 27, 2016 (SPX)

A couple of times in four billion years, evolution has slowed to a crawl. And an eon or so has passed before more complex life forms, such as simple animals, co...

Paleontology: Aftermath of a mass extinction

Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)

A new study of fossil fishes from Middle Triassic sediments on the shores of Lake Lugano provides new insights into the recovery of biodiversity following the g...