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Rosetta suggests Earth's water came from asteroids, not comets
Dec 10, 2014 (AFP)
Water on Earth is more likely to have come from asteroids that hit our planet billions of years ago than comets, European researchers said on Wednesday. Mankind...
Turn back the molecular clock, say Argentina's plant fossils
Dec 03, 2014 (SPX)
Molecular clocks -- based on changes in genetic material -- indicate much younger ages for a wide variety of plants found as fossils in southern Argentina than ...
Prehistoric Landslide Was Bigger Than Three Ohio Counties
Nov 20, 2014 (SPX)
A catastrophic landslide, one of the largest known on the surface of the Earth, took place within minutes in southwestern Utah more than 21 million years ago, r...
Life in Earth's primordial sea was starved for sulfate
Nov 11, 2014 (SPX)
The Earth's ancient oceans held much lower concentrations of sulfate-a key biological nutrient-than previously recognized, according to research published this ...
Rare 2.5-billion-year-old rocks reveal hot spot of sulfur-breathing bacteria
Nov 07, 2014 (SPX)
Wriggle your toes in a marsh's mucky bottom sediment and you'll probably inhale a rotten egg smell, the distinctive odor of hydrogen sulfide gas. That's the bio...
Tricky take-off kept pterodactyls grounded
Nov 07, 2014 (SPX)
A new study, which teamed cutting-edge engineering techniques with paleontology, has found that take-off capacity may have determined body size limits in extinc...
Taking a deeper look at 'ancient wing'
Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)
Reconstructing ancient life has long required a certain degree of imagination. This is especially true when considering the coloration of long-extinct organisms...
Vast geographic change may have triggered explosion of animal life
Nov 04, 2014 (SPX)
A new analysis of geologic history may help solve the riddle of the "Cambrian explosion," the rapid diversification of animal life in the fossil record 530 mill...
Lack of oxygen delayed the rise of animals on Earth
Nov 04, 2014 (SPX)
Geologists are letting the air out of a nagging mystery about the development of animal life on Earth. Scientists have long speculated as to why animal species ...
Seeing dinosaur feathers in a new light
Nov 03, 2014 (SPX)
Why were dinosaurs covered in a cloak of feathers long before the early bird species Archaeopteryx first attempted flight? Researchers from the University of Bo...
90 million-year-old turtle found in New Mexico
Nov 03, 2014 (UPI)
Paleontologists have unearthed a 90-million-year-old fossilized turtle in southern New Mexico, near the town of Truth or Consequences. What may have looked only...
Secrets of Dinosaur Ecology Found in Fragile Amber
Oct 22, 2014 (SPX)
Ryan McKellar's research sounds like it was plucked from Jurassic Park: he studies pieces of amber found buried with dinosaur skeletons. But rather than re-crea...
Fossils force scientists to rethink 'unusual horrible hand' dino
Oct 22, 2014 (UPI)
It's a duck. It's a camel. It's an ostrich. No, it's Deinocheirus mirificus, the duck-camel-ostrich dino. Deinocheirus mirificus translates as "unusual horrible...
Scientists create possible precursor to life
Oct 22, 2014 (SPX)
How did life originate? And can scientists create life? These questions not only occupy the minds of scientists interested in the origin of life, but also resea...
Scientists find ancient mountains that fed early life
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists have found evidence for a huge mountain range that sustained an explosion of life on Earth 600 million years ago. The mountain range was similar in s...
New 'tree of life' traces evolution of a mysterious cotinga birds
Oct 17, 2014 (SPX)
They are some of the brightest, loudest, oddest-looking, least-understood birds on the planet. Some have bulbous crests, long fleshy wattles, or Elvis-worthy po...
Ancient fossils confirmed among our strangest cousins
Oct 17, 2014 (SPX)
More than 100 years since they were first discovered, some of the world's most bizarre fossils have been identified as distant relatives of humans, thanks to th...
Earliest-known lamprey larva fossils unearthed in Inner Mongolia
Oct 17, 2014 (SPX)
Few people devote time to pondering the ancient origins of the eel-like lamprey, yet the evolutionary saga of the bloodsucker holds essential clues to the biolo...
Ancient kangaroo that walked, not hopped, stood ten feet tall
Oct 15, 2014 (UPI)
Some 30,000 years ago, kangaroos were too tall and heavy, without the proper bone structure, to hop around on their hind legs as the modern marsupials do today....
Making oxygen before life
Oct 07, 2014 (SPX)
About one-fifth of the Earth's atmosphere is oxygen, pumped out by green plants as a result of photosynthesis and used by most living things on the planet to ke...
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