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Plants crawled onto land earlier than we give them credit, genetic evidence suggests
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
Plant biologists agree that it all began with green algae. At some point in our planet's history, the common ancestor of trees, ferns, and flowers developed an ...
Clemson scientist unravels the mysteries of a beetle that lived a million centuries ago
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
About 100 million years ago, a tiny beetle flew into a coniferous tree and became engulfed in its resin. Though the tree fell to ruin in a time long forgotten, ...
Influence of geological history on the dawn of modern birds
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
New research led by the American Museum of Natural History reveals that the evolution of modern birds was greatly shaped by the history of our planet's geograph...
Detailed picture of the chemical structure of oceans 520M years ago emerges
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
Ocean chemistry has strongly shaped the evolution of life and biogeochemical cycles on the Earth. Although it was known that the early oceans (>520 million year...
Skeleton reveals the ecology and evolution of early carnivorous mammals
Dec 16, 2015 (SPX)
Prior to the rise of modern-day mammalian carnivores - lions and tigers and bears, as well as weasels, raccoons, wolves and other members of the order Carnivora...
Well-preserved skeleton reveals the ecology and evolution of early carnivorous mammals
Dec 15, 2015 (SPX)
Prior to the rise of modern day mammalian carnivores (lions and tigers and bears, as well as weasels, raccoons, wolves and other members of the order Carnivora)...
Scientists discover 530 million-year-old microscopic worms
Dec 15, 2015 (SPX)
A team of Virginia Tech researchers have discovered fossils of kinorhynch worms - commonly known as mud dragons - dating back more than 530 million years. The h...
Dinosaur relatives and first dinosaurs closely connected
Dec 12, 2015 (SPX)
A new study by a team of scientists from Argentina, Brazil, California and the Natural History Museum of Utah at the University of Utah has determined that the ...
International research partnership yields discovery of a new fossil species
Dec 11, 2015 (SPX)
An international research partnership is revealing the first mosasaur fossil of its kind to be discovered in Japan. Not only does the 72-million-year-old marine...
Ocean toxicity hampered the rapid evolution of complex life
Dec 10, 2015 (SPX)
By examining rocks at the bottom of ancient oceans, an international group of researchers have revealed that arsenic concentrations in the oceans have varied gr...
Animal evolution: Revolution averted
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
Who came first - sponges or comb jellies? A new study by an team of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich reaffirms that sponges are the oldest animal...
Fossil dinosaur tracks give insight into lives of prehistoric giants
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
A newly discovered collection of rare dinosaur tracks is helping scientists shed light on some of the biggest animals ever to live on land. Hundreds of footprin...
Researchers confirm original blood vessels in 80 million-year-old fossil
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from North Carolina State University have confirmed that blood vessel-like structures found in an 80 million-year-old hadrosaur fossil are original ...
Strolling salamanders offer clues on move water to land
Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)
Around 390 million years ago, the first vertebrate animals moved from water onto land, necessitating changes in their musculoskeletal systems to permit a terres...
Rare fossil of a horned dinosaur found from 'lost continent'
Dec 02, 2015 (SPX)
A rare fossil from eastern North America of a dog-sized horned dinosaur has been identified by a scientist at the University of Bath. The fossil provides eviden...
Earth's first ecosystems were complex
Dec 01, 2015 (SPX)
Computer simulations have allowed scientists to work out how a puzzling 555-million-year-old organism with no known modern relatives fed, revealing that some of...
Mystery of how snakes lost their legs solved by reptile fossil
Dec 01, 2015 (SPX)
Fresh analysis of a reptile fossil is helping scientists solve an evolutionary puzzle - how snakes lost their limbs. The 90 million-year-old skull is giving res...
New species of early anthropoid primate found amid Libyan strife
Nov 30, 2015 (SPX)
During upheaval in Libya in 2013, a window of opportunity opened for scientists from the University of Kansas to perform research at the Zallah Oasis, a promisi...
Eggshell porosity and extinct archosaurs nests
Nov 27, 2015 (SPX)
Extinct archosaurs' eggshell porosity may be used as a proxy for predicting covered or exposed nest types, according to a study published November 25, 2015 in t...
A whiff from blue-green algae likely responsible for Earth's oxygen
Nov 27, 2015 (SPX)
Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere emerged in whiffs from a kind of blue-green algae in shallow oceans around 2.5 billion years ago, according to new research from ...
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