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NASA Researchers Discover Ancient Microbes in Antarctic Lake
Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)
In one of the most remote lakes of Antarctica, nearly 65 feet beneath the icy surface, scientists from NASA, the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nev., ...
Grand Canyon as old as the dinosaurs
Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)
An analysis of mineral grains from the bottom of the western Grand Canyon indicates it was largely carved out by about 70 million years ago - a time when dinosa...
More Evidence for an Ancient Grand Canyon
Dec 04, 2012 (SPX)
For over 150 years, geologists have debated how and when one of the most dramatic features on our planet-the Grand Canyon-was formed. New data unearthed by rese...
Study: Grand Canyon as old as dinosaurs
Nov 29, 2012 (UPI)
The Grand Canyon is millions of years older than previously thought, as old as the dinosaurs, researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder say. Analysis...
Early birds had an old-school version of wings
Nov 26, 2012 (SPX)
In comparison to modern birds, the prehistoric Archaeopteryx and bird-like dinosaurs before them had a more primitive version of a wing. The findings, reported ...
Grave robber fossil solves a paleontological enigma
Nov 22, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of researchers, including Carnegie Museum of Natural History scientist John Wible, has resolved the evolutionary relationships of Necroles...
New evidence of dinosaurs' role in the evolution of bird flight
Nov 22, 2012 (SPX)
A new study looking at the structure of feathers in bird-like dinosaurs has shed light on one of nature's most remarkable inventions - how flight might have evo...
New ancient shark species gives insight into origin of great white
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
The great white shark is one of the largest living predatory animals and a magnet for media sensationalism, yet its evolutionary history is as misunderstood as ...
Meet Xenoceratops: Canada's newest horned dinosaur
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have named a new species of horned dinosaur (ceratopsian) from Alberta, Canada. Xenoceratops foremostensis (Zee-NO-Sare-ah-tops) was identified from ...
'Alien' horned dinosaur found in Canada
Nov 12, 2012 (UPI)
Canadian researchers say they have identified fossils found more than 50 years ago as a new species of horned dinosaur that roamed Alberta 78 million hears ago....
Ancient flying reptile needed a runway
Nov 09, 2012 (UPI)
The giant pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus may have sported a 34-foot wingspan, but it needed to taxi down a slope to take off, U.S. researchers say. With that huge win...
After long-ago mass extinction, global warming hindered species' recovery
Nov 08, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers have discovered why plants and animals had a hard time recovering from the largest mass extinction in Earth's history 250 million years ago. The rea...
Were Dinosaurs Destined to Be Big
Nov 06, 2012 (SPX)
In the evolutionary long run, small critters tend to evolve into bigger beasts-at least according to the idea attributed to paleontologist Edward Cope, now know...
Canadian researchers discover fossils of first feathered dinosaurs from North America
Oct 31, 2012 (SPX)
The ostrich-like dinosaurs in the original Jurassic Park movie were portrayed as a herd of scaly, fleet-footed animals being chased by a ferocious Tyrannosaurus...
New study sheds light on how and when vision evolved
Oct 31, 2012 (SPX)
The study, which used computer modelling to provide a detailed picture of how and when opsins evolved, sheds light on the origin of sight in animals, including ...
Father of flying fish found in China: palaeontologists
Oct 31, 2012 (AFP)
Palaeontologists in China said Wednesday they had found the world's oldest flying fish, a strange, snub-nosed creature that glided over water in a bid to evade ...
Mass extinction study provides lessons for modern world
Oct 30, 2012 (SPX)
The Cretaceous Period of Earth history ended with a mass extinction that wiped out numerous species, most famously the dinosaurs. A new study now finds that the...
Extreme-Pressure Research Explores How Earth's Mantle Solidified
Oct 30, 2012 (SPX)
During the earliest stages of the Earth's formation, the planet's mantle may have taken the form of a giant magma ocean, being fully or partially molten all the...
100 million-year-old coelacanth discovered in Texas is new fish species from Cretaceous
Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)
A new species of coelacanth fish has been discovered in Texas. Pieces of tiny fossil skull found in Fort Worth have been identified as 100 million-year-old coel...
Oxygen's ups and downs in the early atmosphere and ocean
Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)
Most researchers imagine the initial oxygenation of the ocean and atmosphere to have been something like a staircase, but with steps only going up. The first st...
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