EARLY EARTH - INDO DAILY

Oct 19, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists have discovered why the 'broken world' following the worst extinction of all time lasted so long - it was simply too hot to survive. The end-Permian ...

Study: Heat prolonged ancient extinctions

Oct 19, 2012 (UPI)

European scientists say they've discovered why a "dead zone" following the worst extinction of all time lasted so long -- it was simply too hot to survive. Rese...

16 million-year-old amber specimen reveals unknown animal behaviors

Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)

Stunning images, including video footage, from a CT scan of amber have revealed the first evidence of any creature using an adult mayfly for transport. Research...

Scientists identify likely origins of vertebrate air breathing

Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)

University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have identified what they think is the ancestral trait that allowed for the evolution of air breathing in vertebrates....

Evolution mostly driven by brawn, not brains

Oct 16, 2012 (SPX)

The most common measure of intelligence in animals, brain size relative to body size, may not be as dependent on evolutionary selection on the brain as previous...

Researchers work across fields to uncover information about hadrosaur teeth

Oct 12, 2012 (SPX)

An unusual collaboration between researchers in two disparate fields resulted in a new discovery about the teeth of 65-million-year-old dinosaurs. With the help...

Developmental biologist proposes new theory of early animal evolution

Oct 12, 2012 (SPX)

A New York Medical College developmental biologist whose life's work has supported the theory of evolution has developed a concept that dramatically alters one ...

Duck-bill dinosaurs had plant-pulverizing teeth more advanced than horses

Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)

A team of paleontologists and engineers has found that duck-billed dinosaurs had an amazing capacity to chew tough and abrasive plants with grinding teeth more ...

Duckbill dinosaurs called 'super-grazers'

Oct 08, 2012 (UPI)

Duckbill dinosaurs had plant-pulverizing teeth more advanced than even cows, horses and other well-known modern grazers, U.S. paleontologists say. In the first ...

Images of 300 million old insects revealed

Sep 27, 2012 (SPX)

Writing in the journal PLoS One, the scientists have used a high resolution form of CT scanning to reconstruct two 305-million year old juvenile insects. Withou...

Large bacterial population colonized land 2.75 billion years ago

Sep 25, 2012 (SPX)

There is evidence that some microbial life had migrated from the Earth's oceans to land by 2.75 billion years ago, though many scientists believe such land-base...

Researchers find our inner reptile hearts

Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)

An elaborate system of leads spreads across our hearts. These leads - the heart's electrical system - control our pulse and coordinate contraction of the heart ...

Ancient, bottom-dwelling critter proves: Newer isn't always better

Sep 12, 2012 (SPX)

Tiny sea creatures called rhabdopleurids reside on the ocean floor, building homes of collagen on the shells of dead clams. Rhabdopleurid colonies are small, an...

Dinosaur die out might have been second of two closely timed extinctions

Sep 10, 2012 (SPX)

The most-studied mass extinction in Earth history happened 65 million years ago and is widely thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs. New University of Washing...

Gardener's delight offers glimpse into the evolution of flowering plants

Sep 06, 2012 (SPX)

The Pink Double Dandy peony, the Double Peppermint petunia, the Doubled Strawberry Vanilla lily and nearly all roses are varieties cultivated for their double f...

Feathered dinosaur feasts on flying food

Aug 31, 2012 (SPX)

University of Alberta researchers found evidence that a feathered, but flightless dinosaur was able to snag and consume small flying dinosaurs. The U of A paleo...

Life's First Taste of Phosphorus

Aug 27, 2012 (SPX)

Despite its impressive biological resume, phosphorus is relatively inaccessible as elements go. To understand how phosphorus obtained its prominent role, scient...

Ancient fossils reveal how the mollusc got its teeth

Aug 24, 2012 (SPX)

The radula sounds like something from a horror movie - a conveyor belt lined with hundreds of rows of interlocking teeth. In fact, radulas are found in the mout...

Cretaceous Footprints Found at Goddard

Aug 23, 2012 (SPX)

About 110 million light years away, the bright, barred spiral galaxy NGC 3259 was just forming stars in dark bands of dust and gas. Here on the part of the Eart...

Mountains, seaway triggered North American dinosaur surge

Aug 07, 2012 (SPX)

The rise of the Rocky Mountains and the appearance of a major seaway that divided North America may have boosted the evolution of new dinosaur species, accordin...