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Fossils prove useful in analysing million year old cyclical phenomena
May 22, 2014 (SPX)
Research conducted at the University of Granada has shown that the cyclical phenomena that affect the environment, like climate change, in the atmosphere-ocean ...
Study uncovers new evidence on species evolution
May 22, 2014 (SPX)
A study involving Simon Fraser University researchers and published in the journal Science has found evidence for the genomic basis of how new species evolve in...
Marine fossil bed along Africa's South Atlantic coast dated to 71.5 mya
May 20, 2014 (SPX)
Paleontologists at Southern Methodist University have measured the carbon isotopes in marine fossils to precisely date for the first time 30 million years of se...
Paleontologists discover new fossil organism
May 13, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of California, Riverside have discovered a fossil of a newly discovered organism from the "Ediacara Biota" - a group of organisms t...
Newly found dinosaur is long-nosed cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex
May 12, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered a new species of long-snouted tyrannosaur, nicknamed Pinocchio rex, which stalked the Earth more than 66 million years ago. Researche...
Dinosaurs and birds kept evolving by shrinking
May 12, 2014 (SPX)
Although most dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, one dinosaur lineage survived and lives on today as a major evolutionary success story - the birds. B...
Redescription of the oldest-known dolphin skull sheds light on their origins and evolution
May 08, 2014 (SPX)
Dolphins are the most diverse family of living marine mammals and include species such as the bottlenose dolphin and the killer whale. However, their early evol...
Widespread tetraradial symmetry among early fossil sponges
May 01, 2014 (SPX)
Sponges are usually considered to be the oldest living animals, having evolved before all other groups. The simplicity of their body structure and tissue organi...
What Lies Beneath Modern New England? Mountain-Building and the End of An Ancient Ocean
Apr 30, 2014 (SPX)
When and where did the ancient Iapetus Ocean suture (the most fundamental Appalachian structure) form? Is part of New England made up of ancient African-derived...
Microbe's Innovation Brought Doom to Earth
Apr 30, 2014 (SPX)
The physical environment can produce sudden shocks to the life of our planet through impacting space rocks, erupting volcanoes and other events. But sometimes l...
Discovery helps solve mystery source of African lava
Apr 28, 2014 (SPX)
Floods of molten lava may sound like the stuff of apocalyptic theorists, but history is littered with evidence of such past events where vast lava outpourings o...
Reconstructed ancient ocean reveals secrets about the origin of life
Apr 28, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have published details about how the first organisms on Earth could have become metabolically active. The results, ...
Ancient shark fossil reveals new insights into jaw evolution
Apr 23, 2014 (SPX)
The skull of a newly discovered 325-million-year-old shark-like species suggests that early cartilaginous and bony fishes have more to tell us about the early e...
Earliest ancestor of land herbivores discovered
Apr 19, 2014 (SPX)
New research from the University of Toronto Mississauga demonstrates how carnivores transitioned into herbivores for the first time on land. "The evolution of h...
Faithful allies since the Cretaceous
Apr 17, 2014 (SPX)
Like humans, many animals depend on beneficial microbes for survival. Although such symbioses can persist for millions of years, the factors maintaining their l...
Extinct carnivorous marsupial may have hunted prey larger than itself
Apr 14, 2014 (SPX)
The reconstruction of an extinct meat-eating marsupial's skull, Nimbacinus dicksoni, suggests that it may have had the ability to hunt vertebrate prey exceeding...
World ranking tracks birds' evolutionary distinctness
Apr 14, 2014 (SPX)
A team of international scientists, including a trio from Simon Fraser University, has published the world's first ranking of evolutionary distinct birds under ...
Graduate student brings extinct plants to life
Apr 14, 2014 (SPX)
Jeff Benca is an admitted uber-geek when it comes to prehistoric plants, so it was no surprise that, when he submitted a paper describing a new species of long-...
MU Researchers Find Rare Fossilized Embryos More Than 500 Million Years Old
Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)
The Cambrian Period is a time when most phyla of marine invertebrates first appeared in the fossil record. Also dubbed the "Cambrian explosion," fossilized reco...
Four-eyed daddy longlegs fossil fills in evolutionary tree
Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)
Living harvestmen-a group of arachnids more commonly known as daddy longlegs-have a single pair of eyes that help them navigate habitats in every continent exce...
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