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Serpent evolution uncoiled on land, not the ocean
May 20, 2015 (UPI)
In looking at snake genomes, serpent anatomy and new clues from early snake fossils, researchers at Yale concluded the earliest ancestral snakes lived on land, ...
Retracing the bird's beak to its dinosaur origins, in the laboratory
May 19, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have successfully replicated the molecular processes that led from dinosaur snouts to the first bird beaks. Using the fossil record as a guide, a res...
Did ocean acidification cause marine mollusc extinction
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
New research, led by the University of Southampton, has questioned the role played by ocean acidification, produced by the asteroid impact that killed the dinos...
Dinosaur's keen nose made it a formidable predator
May 14, 2015 (SPX)
A researcher from the University of Pennsylvania has identified a species of dinosaur closely related to Velociraptor, the group of creatures made infamous by t...
Researchers discover missing link in the evolution of complex cells
May 11, 2015 (SPX)
In a new study, published in Nature this week, a research team led from Uppsala University in Sweden presents the discovery of a new microbe that represents a m...
Ancient fossilized brains highlight origins of the modern head
May 08, 2015 (UPI)
A pair of ancient fossilized brains have shed new light on the evolutionary transition from soft to hard bodies among the predecessors of modern arthropods, the...
Bizarre 'platypus' dinosaur discovered
Apr 30, 2015 (SPX)
Although closely related to the notorious carnivore Tyrannosaurus rex, a new lineage of dinosaur discovered in Chile is proving to be an evolutionary jigsaw puz...
Stegosaurus plates may have differed between male, female
Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)
Stegosaurs plates may have differed between males and females, according to a study published April 22, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Evan Saitta ...
Humans' ancestors had tentacles
Apr 24, 2015 (SPX)
The famous Vitruvian Man, which was drawn by Leonardo da Vinci, pictures the canon of human's proportions. However, humans have become bilaterally symmetric not...
Uranium isotopes carry the fingerprint of ancient bacterial activity
Apr 22, 2015 (SPX)
The oceans and other water bodies contain billions of tons of dissolved uranium. Over the planet's history, some of this uranium was transformed into an insolub...
Oldest fossils controversy resolved
Apr 22, 2015 (SPX)
New analysis of world-famous 3.46 billion-year-old rocks by researchers from the University of Bristol, the University of Oxford and UWA (the University of West...
Capitanian extinction added to list of major extinctions
Apr 16, 2015 (SPX)
Since the Cambrian Explosion, ecosystems have suffered repeated mass extinctions, with the "Big 5" crises being the most prominent. Twenty years ago, a sixth ma...
A new beginning for baby mosasaurs
Apr 15, 2015 (SPX)
They weren't in the delivery room, but researchers at Yale University and the University of Toronto have discovered a new birth story for a gigantic marine liza...
New evidence for combat and cannibalism in tyrannosaurs
Apr 14, 2015 (SPX)
A new study documents injuries inflicted in life and death to a large tyrannosaurine dinosaur. The paper shows that the skull of a genus of tyrannosaur called D...
Exceptional fossil gives voice to ancient terror bird
Apr 14, 2015 (SPX)
A new species of South American fossil terror bird called Llallawavis scagliai ("Scaglia's Magnificent Bird") is shedding light on the diversity of the group an...
Greatest mass extinction driven by acidic oceans, study finds
Apr 10, 2015 (SPX)
Changes to the Earth's oceans, caused by extreme volcanic activity, triggered the greatest extinction of all time, a study suggests. The event, which took place...
Brontosaurus is back!
Apr 08, 2015 (SPX)
Although well known as one of the most iconic dinosaurs, Brontosaurus (the 'thunder lizard') has long been considered misclassified. Since 1903, the scientific ...
Carbon was critical to ocean life's survival 252 million years ago
Apr 08, 2015 (SPX)
A new study led by scientists with The University of Texas at Arlington demonstrates for the first time how elemental carbon became an important construction ma...
New study hints at spontaneous appearance of primordial DNA
Apr 08, 2015 (SPX)
The self-organization properties of DNA-like molecular fragments four billion years ago may have guided their own growth into repeating chemical chains long eno...
Ancient seashell coloration patterns revealed using ultraviolet light
Apr 05, 2015 (SPX)
Nearly 30 ancient seashell species coloration patterns were revealed using ultraviolet (UV) light, according to a study published April 1, 2015 in the open-acce...
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