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Forgotten fossil indicates earlier origin of teeth
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
The tooth plate of just some millimeters in size had been in a box for more than 40 years, without being recognized after the discovery and preparation of the f...
Researchers reconstruct dinosaur tracks
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
Twelve years ago, footprints of carnivorous dinosaurs were discovered and excavated in a quarry near Goslar. Paleontologists from the University of Bonn, workin...
Ring of teeth uncovers common ancestor of molting animals
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
A new study of an otherworldly creature from half a billion years ago - a worm-like animal with legs, spikes and a head difficult to distinguish from its tail -...
Genomics holds key to understanding ecological and evolutionary processes
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Southampton think that Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) of invasive organisms holds the key to furthering our understanding of e...
Fossil of large 'walking' bat discovered in New Zealand reveals ancient lineage
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
Fossilised remains of a new bat species, which lived 16 million years ago, walked on four limbs and was three times larger than today's average bat, have been d...
Scientists find evidence of key ingredient during dawn of life
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
Before there were cells on Earth, simple, tiny catalysts most likely evolved the ability to speed up and synchronize the chemical reactions necessary for life t...
Big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics
Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)
For more than 30 million years after dinosaurs first appeared, they remained inexplicably rare near the equator, where only a few small-bodied meat-eating dinos...
Paleo-engineering: New study reveals complexity of Triceratops' teeth
Jun 15, 2015 (SPX)
When it comes to the three-horned dinosaur called the Triceratops, science is showing the ancient creatures might have been a little more complex than we though...
Poorly preserved fossil features evidence of dino blood
Jun 09, 2015 (UPI)
Researchers at Imperial College London believe they've identified red blood cells and collagen fibers in a poorly preserved dinosaur bone. It's not the first ti...
New evidence emerges on the origins of life
Jun 07, 2015 (SPX)
In the beginning, there were simple chemicals. And they produced amino acids that eventually became the proteins necessary to create single cells. And the singl...
Paleo study shows how elevation may affect evolution
Jun 07, 2015 (SPX)
Paleontologists have documented how dramatic shifts in climate have led to dramatic shifts in evolution. One such event, the Grande Coupure, was a wipeout of ma...
New species of horned dinosaur with 'bizarre' features revealed
Jun 07, 2015 (SPX)
About 10 years ago, Peter Hews stumbled across some bones sticking out of a cliff along the Oldman River in southeastern Alberta, Canada. Now, scientists descri...
Eukaryotes: A new timetable of evolution
Jun 07, 2015 (SPX)
Contaminated samples have evidently created some confusion in the timetable of life. On the basis of ultra-clean analyses, an international team, including scie...
Clues to the Earth's ancient core
Jun 07, 2015 (SPX)
Old rocks hold on to their secrets. Now, a geophysicist at Michigan Technological University has unlocked clues trapped in the magnetic signatures of mineral gr...
Australian fossil forces rethink on our ancestors' emergence onto land
Jun 07, 2015 (SPX)
A 333-million year old broken bone is causing fossil scientists to reconsider the evolution of land-dwelling vertebrate animals, says a team of palaeontologists...
Paleontologists pioneer laser-beam scanning of dinosaur fossils
Jun 04, 2015 (SPX)
A team of scientists based largely at the University of Kansas and the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Washington has developed methods of using ...
Requiem for an ancient tongue worm
Jun 02, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have discovered the 425-million-year-old fossil remains of a new species of parasite, still attached to the host animal it invaded long ago. The new...
Partly human yeast show a common ancestor's lasting legacy
Jun 02, 2015 (SPX)
Despite a billion years of evolution separating humans from the baker's yeast in their refrigerators, hundreds of genes from an ancestor that the two species ha...
Paleontologists discover the first dinosaur fossil in Washington State
May 22, 2015 (SPX)
The fossils of the first dinosaur fossil from Washington State were collected along the shores of Sucia Island State Park in the San Juan Islands, and described...
Ancient connection between the Americas enhanced extreme biodiversity
May 22, 2015 (SPX)
The exchange of species between North and South America created one of the most biologically diverse regions on Earth. A new study shows that this interchange b...
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