EARLY EARTH - INDO DAILY

Mar 04, 2015 (UPI)

Scientists have estimated the weight of young stegosaurus specimen recently acquired by the London's Natural History Museum. Still only a juvenile when it died,...

How The Code Of Life Passed Through Primitive Kinds Of Cells

Mar 03, 2015 (SPX)

Life's origins are a mystery, but every year scientists get a little bit closer to understanding what made life possible on Earth, and possibly on other planets...

Why fossil tracks from Early Triassic swimming reptiles are preserved?

Mar 02, 2015 (SPX)

A type of vertebrate trace fossil gaining recognition in the field of paleontology is that made by various tetrapods (four-footed land-living vertebrates) as th...

How Did Multicellular Life Evolve

Feb 26, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists are discovering ways in which single cells might have evolved traits that entrenched them into group behavior, paving the way for multicellular life....

Earth's Moon May Not Be Critical to Life

Feb 25, 2015 (SPX)

The Moon has long been viewed as a crucial component in creating an environment suitable for the evolution of complex life on Earth, but a number of scientific ...

Pre-Amazonian Peru was ruled by crocodiles

Feb 25, 2015 (UPI)

Before the Amazon River formed as we know it today, some 10.5 million years ago, water in the Amazon basin flowed northward to the Caribbean. Instead of thick r...

Ancient rocks show life could have flourished on Earth 3.2 billion years ago

Feb 19, 2015 (SPX)

A spark from a lightning bolt, interstellar dust, or a subsea volcano could have triggered the very first life on Earth. But what happened next? Life can exist ...

Apollo Lunar Samples Provide More Information on Early Earth Formation

Feb 18, 2015 (Sputnik)

Arizona State University researchers studied the timeline of meteorite impacts on the moon through a ground-breaking application of laser microprobe technology....

Swimming reptiles make their mark in the Early Triassic

Feb 10, 2015 (SPX)

Vertebrate tracks provide valuable information about animal behavior and environments. Swim tracks are a unique type of vertebrate track because they are produc...

Giant ancient rodents used incisors like tusks

Feb 04, 2015 (UPI)

South America is known as home to some of the world's smallest (and cutest) animals, like the world's smallest anteater, the silky anteater, and Earth's smalles...

Ancient 'genomic parasites' spurred evolution of mammalian pregnancy

Jan 30, 2015 (SPX)

An international team of scientists has identified large-scale genetic changes that marked the evolution of pregnancy in mammals. They found thousands of genes ...

Paleontologist names 9-foot-long 'predator croc' that preceded dinosaurs

Jan 21, 2015 (SPX)

Finding a new species of dinosaur is pretty rare. Getting a hand in the discovery and naming of one - that's rarer still. Or it would be for anyone other than 3...

Tiny plant fossils a window into Earth's ancient landscape

Jan 20, 2015 (SPX)

Minuscule, fossilized pieces of plants could tell a detailed story of what the Earth looked like 50 million years ago. An international team led by the Universi...

Modern genetics confirm ancient relationship between fins and hands

Dec 26, 2014 (SPX)

Paleontologists have documented the evolutionary adaptations necessary for ancient lobe-finned fish to transform pectoral fins used underwater into strong, bony...

Rods and cones preserved in ancient fossilized fish eye

Dec 24, 2014 (UPI)

Rods and cones, the two main photoreceptor cells, are vital to human sight -- converting visible electromagnetic radiation into information our brains can use. ...

550 Million Year Old Fossils Provide New Clues about Fossil Formation

Dec 19, 2014 (SPX)

A new study from University of Missouri and Virginia Tech researchers is challenging accepted ideas about how ancient soft-bodied organisms become part of the f...

Oldest horned dinosaur species in North America found in Montana

Dec 15, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists have named the first definite horned dinosaur species from the Early Cretaceous in North America, according to a study published December 10, 2014 in...

Cosmic Impacts Might Help Synthesize Organic Compounds

Dec 14, 2014 (SPX)

Bullets of ice shot at high speeds can deposit organic compounds on surfaces they strike. The new findings suggest that comets might, indeed, have helped delive...

Odd couples emerge in bird family tree

Dec 11, 2014 (AFP)

Birds use essentially the same genes to sing as humans do to speak. And flamingos are more closely related to pigeons than they are to pelicans. These are some ...

What Quails can teach us about the gait of Dinosaurs

Dec 10, 2014 (SPX)

Dinosaurs did it. Human beings and monkey do it. And even birds do it. They walk on two legs. And although humans occupy a special position amongst mammals as t...