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Metal-eating microbes in African lake could solve mystery of the planet's iron deposits
Sep 11, 2015 (SPX)
An isolated, iron-rich bay in the heart of East Africa is offering scientists a rare glimpse back into Earth's primitive marine environment, and supports theori...
Metal-eating microbes to thank for Earth's iron ore deposits
Sep 09, 2015 (UPI)
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Kabuno Bay lives a community of metal-eating microbes. Researchers say the organisms are the relatives of ancient bact...
Shouldering the burden of evolution
Sep 09, 2015 (SPX)
As early humans increasingly left forests and utilized tools, they took an evolutionary step away from apes. But what this last common ancestor with apes looked...
SA fossil is the long-awaited link to the evolution of turtles
Sep 07, 2015 (SPX)
A 260-million-year-old fossil species found in South Africa's Karoo Basin continues to provide information into the murky origins of turtles whose evolution fas...
Explaining crocodiles in Wyoming
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
Fifty million years ago, the Cowboy State was crawling with crocodiles. Fossil records show that crocs lounged in the shade of palm trees from southwestern Wyom...
Oxygen oasis in Antarctic lake reflects Earth in the distant past
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
At the bottom of a frigid Antarctic lake, a thin layer of green slime is generating a little oasis of oxygen, a team including UC Davis researchers has found. I...
Evidence of ancient life discovered in mantle rocks deep below the seafloor
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
Ancient rocks harbored microbial life deep below the seafloor, reports a team of scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Virginia Tech,...
Evidence that Earth's first mass extinction was caused by critters not catastrophe
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
In the popular mind, mass extinctions are associated with catastrophic events, like giant meteorite impacts and volcanic super-eruptions. But the world's first ...
Giant 'sea scorpion' fossil discovered
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
The fossil of a previously unknown species of 'sea scorpion', measuring over 1.5 meters long, has been discovered in Iowa, USA, and described in the open access...
Scientists discover key clues in turtle evolution
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
A research team led by NYIT scientist Gaberiel Bever has determined that a 260-million year-old fossil species found in South Africa's Karoo Basin provides a lo...
Tail as old as time - researchers trace ankylosaur's tail evolution
Sep 02, 2015 (SPX)
How did the ankylosaur get its tail club? According to research from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences that trac...
Pigments, organelles persist in fossil feathers
Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)
A study provides multiple lines of new evidence that pigments and the microbodies that produce them can remain evident in a dinosaur fossil. In the journal Scie...
Popular measure of ancient ocean temperatures questioned
Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)
Understanding the planet's history is crucial if we are to predict its future. While some records are preserved in ice cores or tree rings, other records of the...
How much do we really know about dinosaurs?
Aug 28, 2015 (UPI)
Every week it seems a new dinosaur is being discovered. Each discovery represents progress in piecing together the Jurassic world, but how do scientists put the...
Heavy metal pollution may have contributed to largest extinction events
Aug 27, 2015 (SPX)
Several Palaeozoic mass extinction events during the Ordovician and Silurian periods (ca. 485 to 420 to million years ago) shaped the evolution of life on our p...
Lizard Fossil Overturn Hypothesis Of Lizard Evolution
Aug 26, 2015 (SPX)
University of Alberta paleontologists have discovered a new species of lizard, named Gueragama sulamericana, in the municipality of Cruzeiro do Oeste in Souther...
Key genetic event underlying fin-to-limb evolution
Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)
A study of catsharks reveals how alterations in the expression and function of certain genes in limb buds underlie the evolution of fish fins to limbs. The find...
Discovery of a salamander in amber sheds light on evolution in Caribbean
Aug 18, 2015 (SPX)
More than 20 million years ago, a short struggle took place in what is now the Dominican Republic, resulting in one animal getting its leg bitten off by a preda...
Paleobotanist identifies what could be the mythical 'first flower'
Aug 18, 2015 (SPX)
Indiana University paleobotanist David Dilcher and colleagues in Europe have identified a 125 million- to 130 million-year-old freshwater plant as one of earlie...
British coast once teemed with exotic marine life
Aug 14, 2015 (UPI)
New paleontological evidence suggests the coast of South West England once teemed with tropical marine life -- exotic sharks, fish and reptiles. The new insight...
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