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Significant changes in rhino bone health over 50 million years
Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)
While rhino species evolved and increased in size over 50 million years, their bones may have strained to support their massive and active bodies, according to ...
Indiana University paleobotanist plays role in discovery of 'Jurassic butterflies'
Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)
IU paleobotanist David Dilcher is a co-author on a study out this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society: B that identifies a Jurassic age insect whose be...
Smithsonian scientists discover butterfly-like fossil insect in the deep Mesozoic
Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)
Large butterfly-like insects known as Kalligrammatid lacewings, which fluttered through Eurasian fern- and cycad-filled woodland during the Mesozoic Era, have b...
Expedition recovers mantle rocks with signs of life
Feb 02, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of scientists - recently returned from a 47-day research expedition to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean - have collected an unprecedented ...
Land plant became key marine species
Feb 02, 2016 (SPX)
The genome of eelgrass (Zostera marina) has now been unveiled. It turns out that the plant, once land-living but now only found in the marine environment, has l...
Moon was produced by a head-on collision between Earth and a forming planet
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
The moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a "planetary embryo" called Theia approximately 100 million years after the Eart...
Research team identifies rare dinosaur from Appalachia
Jan 28, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of researchers has identified and named a new species of dinosaur that is the most complete, primitive duck-billed dinosaur to ever be dis...
Rabbit ancestor reveals ancient link between Asia and Europe
Jan 26, 2016 (UPI)
Amphilagus tomidai, a newly named mammalian species, lived in what is now Siberia some 14 million years ago. Researchers say the species is an ancestor of moder...
200 million-year-old Jurassic dinosaur uncovered in Wales
Jan 21, 2016 (SPX)
A new carnivorous dinosaur species named Dracoraptor hanigani uncovered in the south of Wales is possibly the oldest known Jurassic dinosaur from the UK, accord...
Antarctic Microbes Hold Clue to Earth's Oxygen
Jan 21, 2016 (SPX)
At the bottom of an icy Antarctic lake, a thin, slimy layer of bright green microbes is generating a tiny oasis of oxygen that might give a picture of what earl...
Diamonds used to 'probe' ancient Earth
Jan 20, 2016 (SPX)
Diamonds dug up from ancient rock formations in the Johannesburg area, between 1890 and 1930 - before the industrialisation of gold mining - have revealed secre...
Charting the growth of 1 of the world's oldest babies
Jan 15, 2016 (SPX)
The discovery of a juvenile Chasmosaurus--one of the rarest dinosaur discoveries--made Charting the growth of 1 of the world's oldest babiess around the world i...
Enough oxygen long before animals rose
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
Oxygen is crucial for the existence of animals on Earth. But, an increase in oxygen did not apparently lead to the rise of the first animals. New research shows...
Mammal diversity exploded
Dec 28, 2015 (SPX)
The diversity of mammals on Earth exploded straight after the dinosaur extinction event, according to UCL researchers. New analysis of the fossil record shows t...
Smoke detector enabled fungal partnership that allowed first plants to survive
Dec 22, 2015 (SPX)
New research has revealed that a plant protein known to detect growth-promoting compounds in smoke from burning vegetation has a much older and broader role: re...
Focus on mineral for clues to beginning of biological life on earth
Dec 21, 2015 (SPX)
In Earth's beginning, meteorites striking the planet to provide light may have carried an extraterrestrial mineral that, as it corroded in water, could have pro...
Special collection explores origin and evolution of play
Dec 19, 2015 (SPX)
Research on the evolution and function of play at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) has culminated in a special issue o...
A wax shield to conquer the Earth
Dec 19, 2015 (SPX)
Having emerged late during evolution, seeds have transformed many plants into miniature travelers, contributing greatly to their colonization of terrestrial hab...
Burgess Shale fossil site gives up oldest evidence of brood care
Dec 18, 2015 (SPX)
Long before kangaroos carried their joeys in their pouches and honey bees nurtured their young in hives, there was the 508-million-year-old Waptia. Little is kn...
Life Exploded on Earth After Slow Rise of Oxygen
Dec 18, 2015 (SPX)
It took 100 million years for oxygen levels in the oceans and atmosphere to increase to the level that allowed the explosion of animal life on Earth about 600 m...
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