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Unlocking early Earth chemistry
Jun 09, 2023 (SPX)
Polyester microdroplets generated from dehydration and rehydration of aHA monomers were proposed as protocell models and could have been a type of primitive com...
South Africa, India and Australia shared similar volcanic activity billions of years ago
Jun 09, 2023 (SPX)
A new study published in Precambrian Research by a team of researchers, led by Dr Jaganmoy Jodder of the University of the Witwatersrand's Evolutionary Studies ...
Pterosaur bones found three decades ago are Australia's oldest
May 31, 2023 (UPI)
Researchers say the bones are 107 million years old. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs during the Mesozoic era. In co...
A role for meteoritic iron in the emergence of life on Earth
May 26, 2023 (SPX)
To the best of our current knowledge, life on Earth emerged a mere 400 to 700 million years after the Earth itself had formed. That is a fairly quick developmen...
Iron-rich rocks unlock new insights into Earth's planetary history
May 26, 2023 (SPX)
The rocks contain iron oxides that sank to the bottom of oceans long ago, forming dense layers that eventually turned to stone. The study published this week in...
Ancestors of Prochlorococcus microbes rode out to sea on exoskeleton particles
May 12, 2023 (SPX)
But Prochlorococcus didn't always inhabit open waters. Ancestors of the microbe likely stuck closer to the coasts, where nutrients were plentiful and organisms ...
Giants of the Jurassic seas were twice the size of a killer whale
May 11, 2023 (SPX)
The speculation was set to continue, but now a chance discovery in an Oxfordshire museum has led to University of Portsmouth palaeontologists publishing a paper...
Earth's first animals had particular taste in real estate
May 10, 2023 (SPX)
These creatures from the Ediacaran Period, roughly 550 million years ago, are strangely shaped soft-bodied animals that lived in the sea. Researchers have long ...
Vascular plants colonized land extensively by the early Silurian
May 01, 2023 (SPX)
It is crucial to identify the onset and track the expansion of those earliest land plants. However, the precise timing of land colonization by vascular plants r...
How did Earth get its water
Apr 19, 2023 (SPX)
For decades, what researchers knew about planet formation was based primarily on our own Solar System. Although there are some active debates about the formatio...
Tracing Earth's past in prehistoric rock deposits
Apr 18, 2023 (SPX)
By analysing ancient dolomite (carbonate) deposits found in Vempalle, in the Cuddapah district of Andhra Pradesh, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science...
Where did the first sugars come from?
Apr 14, 2023 (SPX)
In a paper that appeared on April 13, 2023, in the journal Chem, the chemists from Scripps Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology propose that key sug...
Analysis of dinosaur eggshells: bird-like Troodon laid 4 to 6 eggs in a communal nest
Apr 10, 2023 (SPX)
Troodon was such a theropod. The carnivorous dinosaur was about two meters long and populated the vast semi-arid landscapes of North America about 75 million ye...
Ancient giant amphibians swam like crocodiles 250 million years ago
Mar 30, 2023 (SPX)
During the Late Permian Period, just over 250 million years ago, South Africa was home to rhinesuchid temnospondyls, large predatory amphibians with bodies simi...
Geoscientists shed a light on life's evolution 800 million years ago
Mar 27, 2023 (SPX)
"Where we sit today, with life as it is on the planet, is the sum total of all the events that happened in the past," said Ben Gill, an associate professor of s...
New eyes discovered in trilobites
Mar 21, 2023 (SPX)
These so-called median eyes are typical for all arthropods, but had not yet been discovered in trilobites despite 150 years of research. The scientists assume t...
Fossil site is 'Rosetta Stone' for understanding early life
Mar 17, 2023 (SPX)
Researchers who analysed the 400 million-year-old-cache, found in rural north-east Scotland, say their findings reveal better preservation of the fossils at a m...
Rare isotopes help unlock mysteries in the Argentine Andes
Mar 15, 2023 (SPX)
Gregory Hoke, the Jessie Page Heroy Professor and department chair of Earth and environmental sciences at Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences, J....
Oldest sea reptile from age of dinosaurs found on arctic island
Mar 14, 2023 (SPX)
Ichthyosaurs were an extinct group of marine reptiles whose fossils have been recovered worldwide. They were amongst the first land living animals to adapt to l...
Hollow bones that let dinosaurs become giants evolved at least three times
Mar 13, 2023 (SPX)
"Less dense bones containing more air gave the dinosaurs and pterosaurs [and still give birds] more oxygen circulating in their blood, as well as more agility t...
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