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Doubt about prehistoric 'killer walrus'
Jan 17, 2013 (UPI)
Paleontologists say examination of a new fossil found in Southern California has thrown doubt on earlier claims of a prehistoric "killer walrus." An analysis of...
Ancient critter could be the granddaddy of shellfish
Jan 17, 2013 (AFP)
A weird marine creature that lived 500 million years ago at a time of explosive growth in Earth's biodiversity could be a forerunner of worms and molluscs, a st...
Scientists reassemble the backbone of life with a particle accelerator
Jan 17, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have been able to reconstruct, for the first time, the intricate three-dimensional structure of the backbone of early tetrapods, the earliest four-le...
Oxygen to the core
Jan 15, 2013 (SPX)
An international collaboration including researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has discovered that the Earth's core formed under more oxidizin...
Animals flourished among lush plants during the Jurassic
Jan 14, 2013 (SPX)
In modern ecosystems, it's widely known that animals flourish in regions where the climate and landscape produce lush vegetation. A new study set out to discove...
Giant fossil predator provides insights into the rise of modern marine ecosystem structures
Jan 09, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of scientists has described a fossil marine predator measuring 8.6 meters in length (about 28 feet) recovered from the Nevada desert in 20...
First fossil bird with teeth specialized for tough diet
Jan 09, 2013 (SPX)
Beak shape variation in Darwin's finches is a classic example of evolutionary adaptation, with beaks that vary widely in proportions and shape, reflecting a div...
Best evidence yet that dinosaurs used feathers for courtship
Jan 08, 2013 (SPX)
A University of Alberta researcher's examination of fossilized dinosaur tail bones has led to a breakthrough finding: some feathered dinosaurs used tail plumage...
Piranha kin wielded dental weaponry even T. rex would have admired
Jan 07, 2013 (SPX)
Taking into consideration its size, an ancient relative of piranhas weighing about 20 pounds delivered a bite with a force more fierce than prehistoric whale-ea...
Fossil in amber shows ancient reproduction process of flowering plants
Jan 03, 2013 (UPI)
A plant preserved in 100 million-year-old amber has revealed the oldest evidence of sexual reproduction in a flowering plant, U.S. and European researchers say....
New data challenge old views about evolution of early life
Dec 28, 2012 (SPX)
A research team led by biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has tested a popular hypothesis in paleo-ocean chemistry, and proved it false. ...
Ups and downs of biodiversity after mass extinction
Dec 27, 2012 (SPX)
The climate after the largest mass extinction so far 252 million years ago was cool, later very warm and then cool again. Thanks to the cooler temperatures, the...
Analysis of Marcellus flowback finds high levels of ancient brines
Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)
Brine water that flows back from gas wells in the Marcellus Shale region after hydraulic fracturing is many times more salty than seawater, with high contents o...
Prehistoric ghosts revealing new details
Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists at The University of Manchester have used synchrotron-based imaging techniques to identify previously unseen anatomy preserved in fossils. Their work...
Ancient Australian fossils were on land, not at sea
Dec 14, 2012 (SPX)
Ancient multicellular fossils long thought to be ancestors of early marine life are remnants of land-dwelling lichen or other microbial colonies, says Universit...
Discovery of tiny fossil new to science
Dec 14, 2012 (SPX)
'It is exciting to discover that a common group of fossils that we thought we knew a lot about may well have been hood-winking us as to their true identity, whi...
Algal ancestor is key to how deadly pathogens proliferate
Dec 13, 2012 (SPX)
Long ago, when life on Earth was in its infancy, a group of small single-celled algae propelled themselves through the vast prehistoric ocean by beating whip li...
Was the sauropod dinosaurs' large size due to plant food?
Dec 13, 2012 (SPX)
The long necked sauropod dinosaurs were the largest land animals ever to walk the Earth - but why were they so large? A decade ago a team of plant ecologists fr...
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs also wiped out the 'Obamadon'
Dec 12, 2012 (SPX)
The asteroid collision widely thought to have killed the dinosaurs also led to extreme devastation among snake and lizard species, according to new research - i...
Scientists find oldest dinosaur - or closest relative yet
Dec 11, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers have discovered what may be the earliest dinosaur, a creature the size of a Labrador retriever, but with a five foot-long tail, that walked the Eart...
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