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Warming pulses in ancient climate record link volcanoes, asteroid impact and dinosaur-killing mass
Jul 08, 2016 (SPX)
A new reconstruction of Antarctic ocean temperatures around the time the dinosaurs disappeared 66 million years ago supports the idea that one of the planet's b...
Our ancestors evolved faster after dinosaur extinction
Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)
Our ancestors evolved three times faster in the 10 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs than in the previous 80 million years, according to UCL r...
Study: Mammals diversified in wake of dinosaur extinction, not before
Jul 05, 2016 (UPI)
For more than 20 years, paleontologists have argued mammals began diversifying some 90 million years ago, prior to the disappearance of the dinosaurs. New resea...
Previously unknown global ecological disaster discovered
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
There have been several mass extinctions in the history of the earth. One of the largest known disasters occurred around 252 million years ago at the boundary b...
Mammalian evolutionary transitions back to the sea
Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)
Though mammals adapted on land, a new study by Maria Chikina and Nathan Clark has shown that during three major independent evolutionary events, a number of mam...
What did Earth's ancient magnetic field look like
Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)
New work from Carnegie's Peter Driscoll suggests Earth's ancient magnetic field was significantly different than the present day field, originating from several...
Researchers discover oldest evidence of farming by insects
Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered the oldest fossil evidence of agriculture - not by humans, but by insects. The team, led by Eric Roberts of James Cook University alo...
Insects were already using camouflage 100 million years ago
Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)
Those who go to a masked ball consciously slip into a different role, in order to avoid being recognized so quickly. Insects were already doing something very s...
Fish have adapted to dry land more often in history than previously thought
Jun 22, 2016 (UPI)
When fish that can travel across dry land and exist outside of water for more than a few moments are discovered, they're usually presented as a rare phenomenon....
Rare snake fossil sheds light on early reptile evolution
Jun 21, 2016 (UPI)
Why did snakes evolve long, limbless bodies? It is a question biologists have been trying to answer for decades. In a quest for clarity on the subject, research...
When Britain was fringed by tropical seas
Jun 17, 2016 (SPX)
A team from the University of Bristol has shed new light on the creatures that inhabited the tropical seas surrounding Britain at the start of the age of the di...
Marine life quickly recovered after global mass extinction
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
Reptiles rapidly invaded the seas soon after a global extinction wiped out most life on Earth, according to a new study led by University of California, Davis, ...
Fossils provide evidence of environmental impacts on species numbers
Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)
The number of species that can exist on Earth depends on how the environment changes, according to new research led by the University of Southampton. By analysi...
Ancient ants leaving a modern trail
Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)
It is thought that ants evolved about 150 million years ago and have risen to dominance in the past 60 million years. They are now everywhere and while they are...
Bacteria perfected protein complexes more than 3.5 billion years ago
Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers are resurrecting ancient bacterial protein complexes to determine how 3.5-billion-year-old cells functioned versus cells of today. Surprisingly, the...
Scientists discover oldest plant root stem cells
Jun 03, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at Oxford University have discovered the oldest known population of plant root stem cells in a 320 million-year-old fossil. The cells, which gave ris...
Predation in ancient microbial ecosystems dates back 740M years
May 27, 2016 (SPX)
Vampires are real, and they've been around for millions of years. At least, the amoebae variety has. So suggests new research from UC Santa Barbara paleobiologi...
Antarctic fossils reveal south was not safer during dinosaur extinction
May 27, 2016 (SPX)
A study of more than 6,000 marine fossils from the Antarctic shows that the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs was sudden and just as deadly to lif...
Strange sea-dwelling reptile fossil hints at rapid evolution after mass extinction
May 25, 2016 (SPX)
Two hundred and fifty million years ago, life on earth was in a tail-spin - climate change, volcanic eruptions, and rising sea levels contributed to a mass exti...
How plants conquered the land
May 20, 2016 (SPX)
Research at the University of Leeds has identified a key gene that assisted the transition of plants from water to the land around 500 million years ago. The AN...
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