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520-million-year-old fossilized nervous system is most detailed example yet found
Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have found one of the oldest and most detailed fossils of the central nervous system yet identified, from a crustacean-like animal that lived more t...
The sponges strike back
Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)
Reaggregation of marine sponges' cells helped the scientists to come closer to understanding of the origin and early evolution of multicellular animals.The work...
Ancient lone star lizard lounged in lush, tropical Texas
Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have discovered a new species of extinct worm lizard in Texas and dubbed it the "Lone Star" lizard. The species - the first known example of a worm ...
Portion of ancient Australian chert microstructures definitively pseudo-fossils
Feb 18, 2016 (SPX)
A team of scientists including Carnegie's Dina Bower and Andrew Steele weigh in on whether microstructures found in 3.46 billion-year-old samples of a silica-ri...
500 million-year-old fossils show how extinct organisms attacked their prey
Feb 18, 2016 (SPX)
The Cambrian Period, which occurred between 541 million and 485 million years ago, is an important point in evolutionary history where most of the major groups ...
Oxygen-starved oceans held back life's recovery after the 'Great Dying'
Feb 18, 2016 (SPX)
Stanford scientists have found that chronically low levels of oxygen throughout the oceans hampered the recovery of life after the Permian-Triassic extinction, ...
Oxygen present in atmosphere earlier than previously assumed
Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)
Reconstructing the emergence and evolution of life on our planet is tightly linked to the questions as to when and to what extent Earth's atmosphere became oxyg...
Jawless fish brains more similar to ours than previously thought
Feb 16, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at the RIKEN Evolutionary Morphology laboratory and other institutions in Japan have shown that complex divisions in the vertebrate brain first appe...
Study confirms giant flightless bird wandered the Arctic 50 million years ago
Feb 16, 2016 (SPX)
It's official: There really was a giant, flightless bird with a head the size of a horse's wandering about in the winter twilight of the high Arctic some 53 mil...
Ancient flowering plant was beautiful - but probably poisonous
Feb 16, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have announced in the journal Nature Plants the discovery of the first-ever fossil specimens of an "asterid" - a family of flowering plants that gav...
Oldest footprints in Catalonia
Feb 16, 2016 (SPX)
The ichnites or fossilised footprints of the Manyanet Valley (within the municipality of Sarroca de Bellera) are in two areas that differ in their environments:...
Discovery of new iron oxides points to large oxygen source inside the Earth
Feb 15, 2016 (SPX)
Using a special high-pressure chamber, scientists have discovered two new iron oxides in experiments at DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III and other facilities...
100-mllion-year-old amber preserves oldest animal societies
Feb 15, 2016 (SPX)
Fighting ants, giant solider termites, and foraging worker ants recently discovered in 100-million-year-old amber provide direct evidence for advanced social be...
Fossil discovery: Extraordinary 'big-mouthed' fish from Cretaceous Period
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of scientists have discovered two new plankton-eating fossil fish species of the genus called Rhinconichthys (Rink-O-nik-thees) from the o...
The Nullarbor Plain's ancient forests revealed
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
Rather than the treeless, limestone expanse we know today, the Plain was flush with gum and eucalyptus trees, banksias and other flowering plants now confined t...
Fossil record disappears at different rates
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
Statistical analysis by University of Wyoming researchers shows wide variation in the rates at which the bones of ancient animals in the Americas have been lost...
Fossils turn out to be a rich source of information
Feb 11, 2016 (SPX)
For more than 70 years, fossilized arthropods from Quercy, France, were almost completely neglected because they appeared to be poorly preserved. With the help ...
Ancient wildebeest-like animal shared 'bizarre' feature with dinosaur
Feb 05, 2016 (SPX)
By poring over the fossilized skulls of ancient wildebeest-like animals (Rusingoryx atopocranion) unearthed on Kenya's Rusinga Island, researchers have discover...
Examining how terrestrial life's building blocks may have first formed
Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)
How did life begin? This is one of the most fundamental questions scientists puzzle over. To address it, they have to look not just back to the primordial Earth...
Modern microbial ecosystems provide window to early life on Earth
Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)
New research from a University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science-led science team provides new insight into one of the world's m...
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