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Evolution stole birds' sweet tooth, hummingbirds got it back
Aug 22, 2014 (UPI)
Genome sequencing over the last decade has revealed birds to lack the gene T1R2, one of two that combine to allow animals to taste sugar. Alligators, on the oth...
New home for an 'evolutionary misfit'
Aug 21, 2014 (SPX)
One of the most bizarre-looking fossils ever found - a worm-like creature with legs, spikes and a head difficult to distinguish from its tail - has found its pl...
Evolution of marine crocodilians constrained by ocean temperatures
Aug 21, 2014 (SPX)
The ancestors of today's crocodiles colonised the seas during warm phases and became extinct during cold phases, according to a new Anglo-French study which est...
Toothless 'dragon' pterosaurs dominated the Late Cretaceous skies
Aug 21, 2014 (SPX)
A new study provides an exciting insight into the Late Cretaceous and the diversity and distribution of the toothless 'dragon' pterosaurs from the Azhdarchidae ...
Fossilized marine plankton tell the tale of the end Permian mass extinction
Aug 18, 2014 (NASA)
The worst mass extinction the Earth has ever seen occurred 252 million years ago. The boundary of the Permian and Triassic geological periods marked the demise ...
Toothless 'dragon' pterosaurs filled late Cretaceous skies
Aug 18, 2014 (UPI)
At some point during the late Cretaceous period, an epoch stretching from 100 to 66 million years ago, pterosaurs gave up their teeth. New research suggests the...
New type of ancient flying reptile discovered in Brazil
Aug 13, 2014 (UPI)
The fossil remains of yet another strange flying reptile has been discovered in Brazil, and researchers have confirmed that the bones are evidence of a previous...
Burrowing animals may have been key to stabilizing Earth's oxygen
Aug 07, 2014 (SPX)
Around 540 million years ago, the first burrowing animals evolved. When these worms began to mix up the ocean floor's sediments (a process known as bioturbation...
Shrinking dinosaurs evolved into flying birds
Aug 05, 2014 (SPX)
A new study involving scientists from the University of Southampton has revealed how massive, meat-eating, ground-dwelling dinosaurs evolved into agile flying b...
New Feathered Predatory Fossil Sheds Light on Dinosaur Flight
Jul 16, 2014 (SPX)
A new raptorial dinosaur fossil with exceptionally long feathers has provided exciting insights into dinosaur flight. A paper published in Nature Communications...
Rise and fall of prehistoric penguin populations charted
Jun 19, 2014 (SPX)
A study of how penguin populations have changed over the last 30,000 years has shown that between the last ice age and up to around 1,000 years ago penguin popu...
New Ichthyosaur Graveyard Found
Jun 09, 2014 (SPX)
In a new study published in the Geological Society of America Bulletin, geoscientists Wolfgang Stinnesbeck of the University of Heidelberg and colleagues docume...
More evidence that Earth collision formed Moon: study
Jun 05, 2014 (AFP)
German scientists said Thursday that moon samples collected during the 1960s and 1970s have shown new evidence that the moon formed when a young Earth collided ...
The reproductive system's evolution from dinosaurs to birds
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
As winged dinosaurs underwent a series of evolutionary changes during the transition into Aves, or birds, one pivotal transformation was the appearance of a sin...
Huge tooth fossil shows marine predator had plenty to chew on
Jun 02, 2014 (SPX)
A fossilised tooth belonging to a fearsome marine predator has been recorded as the largest of its kind found in the UK, following its recent discovery. A team ...
Australia's deadly eruptions the reason for the first mass extinction
Jun 02, 2014 (SPX)
A Curtin University researcher has shown that ancient volcanic eruptions in Australia 510 million years ago significantly affected the climate, causing the firs...
Ancient rocks yield clues about Earth's earliest crust
Jun 01, 2014 (SPX)
It looks like just another rock, but what Jesse Reimink holds in his hands is a four-billion-year-old chunk of an ancient protocontinent that holds clues about ...
A mechanism of how biodiversity arises
May 28, 2014 (SPX)
A new study of how biodiversity arises, by evolutionary biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, shows how a mutation in a single gene during deve...
Delegating the dirty work is a key to evolution
May 26, 2014 (SPX)
We have hundreds of types of cells in our bodies - everything from red blood cells to hair follicles to neurons. But why can't most of them create offspring for...
Fossil avatars are transforming palaeontology
May 26, 2014 (SPX)
New techniques for visualizing fossils are transforming our understanding of evolutionary history according to a paper published by leading palaeontologists at ...
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