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Exceptional fossil fish reveals new evolutionary mechanism for body elongation
Oct 08, 2013 (SPX)
Snake and eel bodies are elongated, slender and flexible in all three dimensions. This striking body plan has evolved many times independently in the more than ...
Early mammal varieties declined as evolution of flowering plants took off
Oct 08, 2013 (SPX)
The dramatic explosion of flowering plant species that occurred about 100 million years ago was thought to have been good news for evolving mammals, providing t...
What evolved first -- a dexterous hand or an agile foot?
Oct 08, 2013 (SPX)
Resolving a long-standing mystery in human evolution, new research from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute indicates that early hominids developed finger dexteri...
New fossils push the origin of flowering plants back by 100 million years to the early Triassic
Oct 03, 2013 (SPX)
Drilling cores from Switzerland have revealed the oldest known fossils of the direct ancestors of flowering plants. These beautifully preserved 240-million-year...
Fossils push flowering plants back to early Triassic
Oct 03, 2013 (SPX)
Flowering plants evolved from extinct plants related to conifers, ginkgos, cycads, and seed ferns. The oldest known fossils from flowering plants are pollen gra...
Ancient soils reveal clues to early life on Earth
Sep 30, 2013 (SPX)
Oxygen appeared in the atmosphere up to 700 million years earlier than we previously thought, according to research published today in the journal Nature, raisi...
Thousands of dinosaur tracks found along Yukon River in Alaska
Sep 27, 2013 (UPI)
Thousands of dinosaur tracks found in a remote area on the Yukon River are "evidence of an extinct ecosystem," University of Alaska researchers say. The tracks ...
'Cascade of events' caused sudden explosion of animal life
Sep 24, 2013 (SPX)
The explosion of animal life on Earth around 520 million years ago was the result of a combination of interlinked factors rather than a single underlying cause,...
New rat genus discovered in the birthplace of the theory of evolution
Sep 24, 2013 (SPX)
A prominent tuft of spiny hair on the back, a white tail tip and three pairs of teats represent the unique set of characteristics describing a new genus of rat ...
Jurassic jaws: How ancient crocodiles flourished during the age of the dinosaurs
Sep 16, 2013 (SPX)
New research has revealed the hidden past of crocodiles, showing for the first time how these fierce reptiles evolved and survived in a dinosaur dominated world...
Next generation sequencing reveals absence of DNA in sub fossilized insects
Sep 16, 2013 (SPX)
It is hardly possible to talk about fossil insects in amber without the 1993 movie Jurassic Park entering the debate. The idea of recreating dinosaurs by extrac...
Researchers identify ancient ancestor of tulip tree line
Sep 16, 2013 (SPX)
The modern-day tulip tree, state tree of Indiana as well as Kentucky and Tennessee, can trace its lineage back to the time of the dinosaurs, according to newly ...
Scientists say 'big bang' of life eons ago fits theory of evolution
Sep 12, 2013 (UPI)
Australian scientists say they've determined the rate of evolution's "big bang" when most modern animal groups appeared around 530 million years ago. The findin...
Meteor molecules give hint of possible early Earth life
Sep 10, 2013 (UPI)
A meteorite found in California last year contained organic molecules, suggesting an extraterrestrial source for the evolution of life on Earth, scientists say....
Why Earth's greatest mass extinction was the making of modern mammals
Sep 05, 2013 (SPX)
The ancient closest relatives of mammals - the cynodont therapsids - not only survived the greatest mass extinction of all time, 252 million years ago, but thri...
Study offers insight into the origin of the genetic code
Sep 05, 2013 (SPX)
An analysis of enzymes that load amino acids onto transfer RNAs -- an operation at the heart of protein translation -- offers new insights into the evolutionary...
Chinese super-rat roamed Earth 160 million years ago
Aug 15, 2013 (AFP)
A fossil of the oldest known ancestor of modern rats -- an agile creature that could climb, burrow and eat just about anything -- has been unearthed in China, s...
The 'genetics of sand' may shed new light on evolutionary process over millions of years
Aug 15, 2013 (SPX)
An evolutionary ecologist at the University of Southampton, is using 'grains of sand' to understand more about the process of evolution. Dr Thomas Ezard is usin...
Deep Earth heat surprise
Aug 15, 2013 (SPX)
The key to understanding Earth's evolution is to look at how heat is conducted in the deep lower mantle-a region some 400 to 1,800 miles (660 to 2,900 kilometer...
Reconstructed proteins give clues to first life on Earth -- or Mars
Aug 08, 2013 (UPI)
Reconstructions of 4 billion-year-old proteins have provided insights into the habitat and origins of life on Earth, Spanish and U.S. researchers say. Writing i...
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