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Black rock sample reveals a turbulent path to an oxygenated atmosphere
Nov 27, 2015 (SPX)
Earth scientists from the University of Alberta, University of Waterloo, Arizona State University, University of California Riverside, and Georgia Institute of ...
Acorn worm genome reveals gill origins of human pharynx
Nov 24, 2015 (SPX)
The newly sequenced genomes of two marine worms are shedding light on the 570 million-year evolution of gills into the pharynx that today gives humans the abili...
Our closest wormy cousins
Nov 24, 2015 (SPX)
A team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and its collaborators has sequenced the genomes of two species of small w...
Study links deep-time dust with major impacts on carbon cycling
Nov 24, 2015 (SPX)
A University of Oklahoma-led study links vast amounts of iron-rich dust deposits from the late Paleozoic period of 300 million years ago with implications for m...
Analysis of proto-mammal fossil clarifies the mammalian family tree
Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)
A new analysis of the jaw of Haramiyavia clemmenseni, one of the earliest known proto-mammals, clarifies the timeline of early mammalian evolution. Through high...
Ancient mass extinction led to dominance of tiny fish
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
When times are good, it pays to be the big fish in the sea; in the aftermath of disaster, however, smaller is better. According to new research led by the Unive...
Isle of Skye fossil makes three species one
Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)
The discovery of a tiny, 170-million-year-old fossil on the Isle of Skye, off the north-west coast of the UK, has led Oxford University researchers to conclude ...
Baffin Island provides insights into origin of Earth's water
Nov 16, 2015 (SPX)
Water covers more than two-thirds of Earth's surface, but its exact origins are still something of a mystery. Scientists have long been uncertain whether water ...
Complex skeletons evolved earlier than realized, fossils suggest
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
The first animals to have complex skeletons existed about 550 million years ago, fossils of a tiny marine creature unearthed in Namibia suggest. The find is the...
Ancient brains turn paleontology on its head
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
Science has long dictated that brains don't fossilize, so when Nicholas Strausfeld co-authored the first ever report of a fossilized brain in a 2012 edition of ...
Dust, Iron, and Life
Nov 11, 2015 (SPX)
Dust begets life, and Earth's atmosphere 300 million years ago was perhaps the dustiest of all time, with large consequences for carbon cycling and the climate ...
Newly discovered fossil sea urchin is the oldest of its kind
Nov 06, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have uncovered a fossil sea urchin that pushes back a fork in its family tree by 10 million years, according to a new study. A team from USC found t...
Scientists unearth largest dinosuar ever found with wing feathers
Nov 05, 2015 (UPI)
A team of paleontologists have discovered a new raptor, the largest dinosaur specimen ever found with wing feathers. Named Dakotaraptor steini, the dino was fou...
How did tyrannosaurs eat? With really wide-hinging jaws
Nov 04, 2015 (UPI)
Tyrannosaurus rex had an especially big mouth. Its powerful, wide-gaping jaw enabled T. rex's ferocious dietary habits. In a new study, published in the journal...
New findings rock long-held assumptions about ancient mass extinction
Nov 04, 2015 (SPX)
New evidence gathered from the Karoo Basin in South Africa sheds light on a catastrophic extinction event that occurred more than 250 million years ago and wipe...
Unraveling the mysteries of 2 ancient parasites
Nov 04, 2015 (SPX)
Finding parasites on fossils is a rarity, since, as we humans have experienced with a shudder, they tend to attach to skin or soft tissue and not skeleton. Howe...
It's a Tyrannosaur-eat-Tyrannosaur world
Nov 02, 2015 (SPX)
A nasty little 66-million-year-old family secret has been leaked by a recently unearthed tyrannosaur bone. The bone has peculiar teeth marks that strongly sugge...
Fossil bone growth reveals the ancestry of mammalian warm-bloodedness
Nov 02, 2015 (SPX)
One associated effect of being 'warm-blooded' is a relatively fast growth-rate. Mammals (and birds, who are also 'warm-blooded') tend to grow much faster than '...
Oldest DNA sequences may reveal secrets of ancient animal ancestors
Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)
700 million year-old DNA sequences from ancient animals have been unearthed by researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Warwick, shedding new light on o...
National Guard airlifts baby pentaceratops fossil out of New Mexico badlands
Oct 30, 2015 (UPI)
The first known juvenile pentaceratops fossil took a helicopter ride this week. The plastered ancient remains were airlifted from the badlands of northern New M...
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