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Mapping Amino Acids to Understand Life's Origins
Jan 16, 2014 (SPX)
Only 20 standard amino acids are used to build proteins, but why exactly nature "chose" these particular amino acids is still a mystery. One step towards solvin...
Fossil pigments reveal the colors of ancient sea monsters
Jan 13, 2014 (SPX)
Unique finds of original pigment in fossilised skin from three multi-million-year old marine reptiles attract considerable attention from the scientific communi...
After a 49-million-year hiatus, a cockroach reappears in North America
Jan 07, 2014 (SPX)
The cockroach in the genus Ectobius is a major textbook example of an invasive organism, and it is the most common cockroach inhabiting a large region from nort...
Amber fossil reveals ancient reproduction in flowering plants
Jan 06, 2014 (SPX)
A 100-million-year old piece of amber has been discovered which reveals the oldest evidence of sexual reproduction in a flowering plant - a cluster of 18 tiny f...
New Study Brings Scientists Closer to the Origin of RNA
Jan 06, 2014 (SPX)
One of the biggest questions in science is how life arose from the chemical soup that existed on early Earth. One theory is that RNA, a close relative of DNA, w...
Climate Change Wiped Out Cave Bears 13 Millennia Earlier Than Thought
Jan 01, 2014 (SPX)
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Study of rodent family tree puts brakes on commonly held understanding of evolution
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
Rodents can tell us a lot about the way species evolve after they move into new areas, according to a new and exceptionally broad study conducted in part by Flo...
Blind cavefish offer evidence for alternative mechanism of evolutionary change
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
In a blind fish that dwells in deep, dark Mexican caves, scientists have found evidence for a long-debated mechanism of evolutionary change that is distinct fro...
Mapping the demise of the dinosaurs
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
About 65 million years ago, an asteroid or comet crashed into a shallow sea near what is now the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The resulting firestorm and global...
Ancient 'fig wasp' lived tens of millions of years before figs
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
A 115-million-year-old fossilized wasp from northeast Brazil presents a baffling puzzle to researchers. The wasp's ovipositor, the organ through which it lays i...
Duck-billed dinosaurs had fleshy 'cocks comb'
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
A rare, mummified specimen of the duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosauraus regalis described in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on December 12 shows for the f...
An important discovery of marine fossils in the upper part of the Permian Linxi Formation, China
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
In a recent study, large numbers of bryozoan and other typical marine fossils were discovered for the first time in the thick limestone layers and lenses of the...
Iron preserves, hides ancient tissues in fossilized remains
Dec 08, 2013 (SPX)
New research from North Carolina State University shows that iron may play a role in preserving ancient tissues within dinosaur fossils, but also may hide them ...
Acid raid, ozone depletion contributed to ancient extinction
Nov 27, 2013 (SPX)
Around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, there was a mass extinction so severe that it remains the most traumatic known species die-off i...
Colossal new predatory dino terrorized early tyrannosaurs
Nov 27, 2013 (SPX)
A new species of carnivorous dinosaur - one of the three largest ever discovered in North America - lived alongside and competed with small-bodied tyrannosaurs ...
A possible cause of the end-Permian mass extinction: Lemon juice?
Nov 27, 2013 (SPX)
Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice may have played a part in killing off plants and organisms around the world during the most severe mass extinction in Ea...
Ancient minerals: Which gave rise to life?
Nov 27, 2013 (SPX)
Life originated as a result of natural processes that exploited early Earth's raw materials. Scientific models of life's origins almost always look to minerals ...
New dinosaur discovered in Utah
Nov 26, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at The Field Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCMNS), and North Carolina State University (NCSU) have discovered a new, giant ...
Oxygen, phosphorous and early life on Earth
Nov 22, 2013 (SPX)
Two billion years ago the Earth system was recovering from perhaps the single-most profound modification of its surface environments: the oxygenation of the atm...
Pilbara home to 3.5 billion-year-old bacterial ecosystems
Nov 14, 2013 (SPX)
Evidence of complex microbial ecosystems dating back almost 3.5 billion years has been found in Western Australia's Pilbara region by an international team incl...
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