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Ancient crocodylian fossils show evidence for parallel evolution
Apr 26, 2016 (SPX)
The 13-million-year-old fossils of an extinct crocodylian, named 'the storyteller,' suggest that South American and Indian species evolved separately to acquire...
Did our limbs may have evolved from sharks' gills
Apr 25, 2016 (SPX)
Latest analysis shows that human limbs share a genetic programme with the gills of cartilaginous fishes such as sharks and skates, providing evidence to support...
Ancient DNA reveals evolution of giant bears in the Americas
Apr 25, 2016 (SPX)
The work of University of Adelaide researchers is shedding new light on the evolution of what are believed to be the largest bears that ever walked the Earth. D...
How did human paired limbs evolve
Apr 25, 2016 (SPX)
Sharks, skates, and rays are oddities among the fish: They have appendages growing out of the gill arch, a small cradle of bones that supports the gills. This a...
Copper gives an answer to the rise of oxygen
Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)
"Our findings make it possible to reconstruct nutrient content in early marine settings and demonstrate that the iron-rich content of the early oceans must have...
Dinosaurs 'already in decline' before asteroid apocalypse
Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)
Dinosaurs were already in an evolutionary decline tens of millions of years before the meteorite impact that finally finished them off, new research has found. ...
Dino dinner, dead or alive
Apr 18, 2016 (SPX)
When asked to think of meat-eating dinosaurs we usually conjure images of voracious predators chasing down helpless prey. These visions are no doubt inspired by...
What massive volcanic eruptions say about climate change
Apr 15, 2016 (UPI)
A new study details the tremendous effects a massive volcanic eruption can have on Earth's climate. Scientists say their findings are proof that a series of dra...
Prehistoric peepers offer clues to 300 million year old 'Tully Monster'
Apr 15, 2016 (SPX)
A 300 million year-old fossil mystery has been solved by a research team led by the University of Leicester, which has identified that the ancient 'Tully Monste...
Researchers define links within two supercontinents
Apr 13, 2016 (SPX)
A University of Wyoming researcher contributed to a paper that has apparently solved an age-old riddle of how constituent continents were arranged in two Precam...
New models predicting where to find fossils
Apr 12, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of scientists have developed a way to help locate fossils of long-extinct animals. Using the estimated ages and spatial distribution of Au...
Supernovae showered Earth with radioactive debris
Apr 08, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of scientists has found evidence of a series of massive supernova explosions near our solar system, which showered the Earth with radioact...
Life history of ancient mammal relatives provides insight on survival tactics
Apr 07, 2016 (SPX)
Two hundred and fifty-two million years ago, a series of Siberian volcanoes erupted and sent the Earth into the greatest mass extinction of all time. As a resul...
Therapsids adapted to drastic climate change with shorter life cylce
Apr 07, 2016 (SPX)
Two hundred and fifty-two million years ago, a series of Siberian volcanoes erupted and sent the Earth into the greatest mass extinction of all time. Billions o...
Appendages Help Microbes Survive Harsh Conditions
Apr 07, 2016 (SPX)
The most ancient kinds of microbes on Earth often have a special filament lining their surfaces. Scientists are discovering that these structures can play a var...
Prey scarcity and competition led to extinction of ancient monster shark
Apr 06, 2016 (SPX)
Is there anyone out there who doesn't know Jaws, the film about the great white shark and the devastation it wreaked? But there have been even bigger and more d...
Fossil discovery suggests size poor predictor of maturity in ancient reptiles
Apr 06, 2016 (SPX)
Paleontologists at Virginia Tech have found that muscle-scarred fossil leg bones of one of the closest cousins of dinosaurs that lived approximately 240 million...
New type of dinosaur egg found in China
Apr 05, 2016 (UPI)
Researchers have found a new type of dinosaur egg from the Lower Cretaceous, or Early Cretaceous, in northwest China. The strata encompasses fossils dated betwe...
Ancestral malarial organisms traced to age of dinosaurs
Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)
A new analysis of the prehistoric origin of malaria suggests that it evolved in insects at least 100 million years ago, and the first vertebrate hosts of this d...
Land bridges linking ancient India and Eurasia were 'freeways' for biodiversity
Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)
For about 60 million years during the Eocene epoch, the Indian subcontinent was a huge island. Having broken off from the ancient continent of Gondwanaland, the...
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