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Some dinosaurs said to possess sufficient brain power for flight

Jul 31, 2013 (UPI)

Dinosaurs possessed the brainpower necessary for flight long before they actually evolved and took to the air as birds, U.S. researchers say. While a relatively...

Natural affinities may have set stage for life to ignite

Jul 31, 2013 (SPX)

The chemical components crucial to the start of life on Earth may have primed and protected each other in never-before-realized ways, according to new research ...

How Did Earth's Primitive Chemistry Get Kick Started?

Jul 31, 2013 (SPX)

How did life on Earth get started? Three new papers co-authored by Mike Russell, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., str...

New cricket discovered in forgotten prehistoric amber

Jul 30, 2013 (UPI)

A previously unknown ancient cricket species has been discovered in a piece of hardened amber. The amber was discovered more than half a century ago in the Domi...

Siberian fossils suggest all dinosaurs had feathers

Jul 24, 2013 (UPI)

Over the last two decades, paleontologists have amassed more and more evidence of the prevalence of feathers among theropod dinosaurs, a group of raptor-like me...

Geochemical 'fingerprints' leave evidence that megafloods eroded steep gorge

Jul 23, 2013 (SPX)

The Yarlung-Tsangpo River in southern Asia drops rapidly through the Himalaya Mountains on its way to the Bay of Bengal, losing about 7,000 feet of elevation th...

Greening of the Earth pushed way back in time

Jul 23, 2013 (SPX)

Conventional scientific wisdom has it that plants and other creatures have only lived on land for about 500 million years, and that landscapes of the early Eart...

New evidence for warm-blooded dinosaurs

Jul 22, 2013 (SPX)

University of Adelaide research has shown new evidence that dinosaurs were warm-blooded like birds and mammals, not cold-blooded like reptiles as commonly belie...

Plant-eating dinosaurs replaced teeth often, carried spares

Jul 19, 2013 (SPX)

Some of the largest herbivorous dinosaurs replaced their teeth at a rate of approximately one tooth every 1-2 months to compensate for tooth wear from crunching...

Earth's Gold Came from Colliding Dead Stars

Jul 19, 2013 (SPX)

We value gold for many reasons: its beauty, its usefulness as jewelry, and its rarity. Gold is rare on Earth in part because it's also rare in the universe. Unl...

Non-aviary dinosaur flew with four wings

Jul 16, 2013 (UPI)

It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's the bones of Changyuraptor yangi -- the latest fossil to suggest dinosaurs took to the air before birds. Changyuraptor yangi...

Dinosaurs, diets and ecological niches

Jul 15, 2013 (SPX)

A new study by a Canadian Museum of Nature scientist helps answer a long-standing question in palaeontology-how numerous species of large, plant-eating dinosaur...

CU study shows how early Earth kept warm enough to support life

Jul 11, 2013 (SPX)

Solving the "faint young sun paradox" - explaining how early Earth was warm and habitable for life beginning more than 3 billion years ago even though the sun w...

Scientists show how ancient arachnid walked and hunted

Jul 09, 2013 (UPI)

Scientists in United Kingdom have brought an ancient arachnid back from the dead -- virtually, that is. The remains of a 410-million-year-old arachnid were so w...

Seeing starfish: The missing link in eye evolution

Jul 09, 2013 (SPX)

A study has shown for the first time that starfish use primitive eyes at the tip of their arms to visually navigate their environment. Research headed by Dr. An...

Evolution's toolkit seen in developing hands and arms

Jul 09, 2013 (SPX)

Thousands of sequences that control genes are active in the developing human limb and may have driven the evolution of the human hand and foot, a comparative ge...

Study reveals ancient jigsaw puzzle of past supercontinent

Jul 08, 2013 (SPX)

A new study published in the journal Gondwana Research, has revealed the past position of the Australian, Antarctic and Indian tectonic plates, demonstrating ho...

Flipping fish adapt to land living

Jul 08, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers have found that the amphibious mangrove rivulus performs higher force jumps on land than some other fishes that end up on land. This new study shows...

The evolution of fins to limbs in the land invasion race

Jul 08, 2013 (SPX)

Why did animals with limbs win the race to invade land over those with fins? A new study comparing the forces acting on fins of mudskipper fish and on the forel...

Near-perfect fossil reveals details of ancient bird Archaeopteryx's plumage

Jul 03, 2013 (UPI)

In a study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, researchers described the discovery of a near perfect fossil of Archaeopteryx, the "original bird." Tho...