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Fresh water on Earth appeared 500 million years earlier than previously thought
Jun 04, 2024 (SPX)
Dr. Hamed Gamaleldien, Adjunct Research Fellow at Curtin's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences and an Assistant Professor at Khalifa University, UAE, stated ...
New Skull Discovery Sheds Light on Australia's Giant Prehistoric Bird
Jun 04, 2024 (SPX)
Previously, the only known skull for this species, reported in 1913, was heavily damaged, providing limited information. New fossils from Lake Callabonna, South...
Weak magnetic field linked to increased oxygen and complex life emergence
May 03, 2024 (SPX)
From 600 to 540 million years ago, the planet hosted only soft-bodied organisms known as Ediacaran fauna. The fossil evidence indicates a significant diversific...
Revolutionary Dating Method Illuminates the Oxygenation of Ancient Seas
Apr 05, 2024 (SPX)
The work of Dr. Uri Ryb, Dr. Michal Ben-Israel, and their team at the Institute of Earth Sciences marks a significant stride in Earth sciences. Their paper, fea...
Earth's earliest forest unearthed in UK Coastal Fossils
Mar 11, 2024 (SPX)
Located near Minehead, on the Bristol Channel's south bank, these fossilized Calamophyton trees initially resemble palm trees but represent an early form of tre...
Mercury rising: Study sheds new light on ancient volcanoes' environmental impact
Mar 04, 2024 (SPX)
The scientists reported this week (Feb. 26) in the journal Nature Geosciences that they have developed a new technique to estimate excess mercury left behind in...
New techniques uncover ancient biomass secrets in Australian rocks
Feb 22, 2024 (SPX)
The Pilbara Craton's significance lies in its ancient rocks, which are direct windows into the Earth's early history. The area is renowned among geologists and ...
Even the oldest eukaryote fossils show dazzling diversity and complexity
Jan 12, 2024 (SPX)
In a new account of exquisitely preserved microfossils, researchers at UC Santa Barbara and McGill University revealed that eukaryotic organisms had already evo...
Study challenges traditional views on plate tectonics in Earth's early history
Jan 10, 2024 (SPX)
Traditionally, the theory of plate tectonics has been perceived as somewhat limited in its application to Precambrian geology. This view stems from the conventi...
Evolution of photosynthesis expanded with discovery of oldest thylakoids in a fossil cyanobacteria
Jan 08, 2024 (SPX)
Catherine Demoulin, Yannick Lara, Alexandre Lambion and Emmanuelle Javaux from the Early Life Traces and Evolution laboratory of the Astrobiology Research Unit ...
Mysterious fruit shown to be the oldest known fossils of the Frankincense and Myrrh family
Dec 21, 2023 (SPX)
Now, researchers say they've solved the mystery. Using CT scanning technology, Steven Manchester, curator of paleobotany at the Florida Museum of Natural Histor...
Evidence that ancient Tethys Ocean influenced Earth's past environments
Dec 11, 2023 (SPX)
The story begins from the Tethyan tectonic evolution, represented by the opening and closure of the succession of the Proto-, Paleo-, and Neo-Tethys oceans. The...
Study reshapes understanding of mass extinction in Late Devonian era
Dec 08, 2023 (SPX)
However, a mass extinction event near the end of this era has long been the subject of debate. Some scientists argue the Late Devonian mass extinction was cause...
Mysteries of Earth's ancient mass extinction event revealed
Dec 08, 2023 (SPX)
About 200 million years ago, Earth experienced its fourth major mass extinction event. Triggered by a dramatic rise in greenhouse gases due to volcanic activity...
Molecular fossils shed light on ancient life
Dec 08, 2023 (SPX)
David Gold, associate professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Davis, works in the new field of molecular pa...
Study suggests micrometeorites as key nitrogen source for primordial Earth
Dec 04, 2023 (SPX)
Micrometeorites, small extraterrestrial particles, are believed to originate from icy bodies in the outer Solar System. The study suggests that these micrometeo...
Plants that survived dinosaur extinction pulled nitrogen from air
Nov 27, 2023 (SPX)
Like their lumbering grazers, most cycads have gone extinct. Their disappearance from their prior habitats began during the late Mesozoic and continued into the...
Research in Lake Superior reveals how sulfur might have cycled in Earth's ancient oceans
Nov 21, 2023 (SPX)
Fortunately, the nutrient-poor waters of Lake Superior offer a welcome glimpse into the past. "It's really hard to look back billions of years," said Phillips, ...
Recreation of ancient seawater reveals which nutrients shaped the evolution of early life
Nov 14, 2023 (SPX)
All life uses nutrients such as zinc and copper to form proteins. The oldest lifeforms evolved in the Archean Eon, three and a half billion years before the din...
The first dinosaur egg was leathery
Nov 14, 2023 (SPX)
Now, however, a recent fossil discovery by researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Scie...
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