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Research team discovers eating habits of Jurassic age dinosaur

Aug 03, 2012 (SPX)

A team of researchers from the University of Bristol, Natural History Museum of London, the University of Missouri and Ohio University has discovered the eating...

Drilling discovers ancient Antarctic rainforest

Aug 02, 2012 (AFP)

Drilling of the seabed off Antarctica has revealed that rainforest grew on the frozen continent 52 million years ago, scientists said Thursday, warning it could...

NASA and University Researchers Find a Clue to How Life Turned Left

Jul 30, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers analyzing meteorite fragments that fell on a frozen lake in Canada have developed an explanation for the origin of life's handedness - why living th...

Researchers dig through the gene bank to uncover the roots of the evolutionary tree

Jul 30, 2012 (SPX)

Ever since Darwin first published The Origin of the Species, scientists have been striving to identify a last universal common ancestor of all living species. P...

Ion selectivity in neuronal signaling channels evolved twice in animals

Jul 30, 2012 (SPX)

Excitation of neurons depends on the selected influx of certain ions, namely sodium, calcium and potassium through specific channels. Obviously, these channels ...

Ancient genetic 'mistake' drove evolution

Jul 27, 2012 (UPI)

U.K. researchers say a genetic "mistake" 500 million years ago triggered an evolutionary pathway that eventually led to humans and many other animals. It happen...

New species of ancient rodents hint at what could be world's oldest grasslands

Jul 26, 2012 (SPX)

A paleontological team that includes scientists from the American Museum of Natural History; University of California, Santa Barbara; and Case Western Reserve U...

Engineering technology reveals eating habits of giant dinosaurs

Jul 17, 2012 (SPX)

A team of international researchers, led by the University of Bristol and the Natural History Museum, used CT scans and biomechanical modelling to show that Dip...

Fossil egg discovered in Spain links dinosaurs to modern birds

Jul 16, 2012 (SPX)

Before her death in December 2010, Nieves Lopez Martinez, palaeontologist of the Complutense University of Madrid, was working on the research of dinosaur eggs ...

Solar System Ice: Source of Earth's Water

Jul 16, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists have long believed that comets and, or a type of very primitive meteorite called carbonaceous chondrites were the sources of early Earth's volatile e...

Giving Ancient Life Another Chance to Evolve

Jul 13, 2012 (SPX)

It's a project 500 million years in the making. Only this time, instead of playing on a movie screen in Jurassic Park, it's happening in a lab at the Georgia In...

Ancient life 're-evolves' in Georgia lab

Jul 11, 2012 (UPI)

Georgia Tech researchers say they've resurrected a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into modern-day Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. ...

Multiple proxy datasets can clarify ancient climate regimes

Jul 04, 2012 (SPX)

Tree ring and oxygen isotope data from the U.S. Pacific Northwest do not provide the same information on past precipitation, but rather than causing a problem, ...

U Alberta resets date of earliest animal life by 30 million years

Jul 03, 2012 (SPX)

University of Alberta researchers have uncovered physical proof that animals existed 585 million years ago, 30 million years earlier than all previous establish...

Dinosaurs were warm-blooded reptiles

Jul 02, 2012 (SPX)

The journal Nature has published a study analysing the lines of arrested growth (LAG) in the bones of around a hundred ruminants, representative of the specific...

A group of fungi marked the end of the coal age 300 million years ago

Jun 29, 2012 (SPX)

300 million years ago, the Earth suddenly interrupted massive production of coal. This fact determined the end of the Carboniferous, a period of the Paleozoic E...

Clues to nervous system evolution found in nerve-less sponge

Jun 21, 2012 (SPX)

UC Santa Barbara scientists turned to the simple sponge to find clues about the evolution of the complex nervous system and found that, but for a mechanism that...

Where we split from sharks: Common ancestor comes into focus

Jun 18, 2012 (SPX)

The common ancestor of all jawed vertebrates on Earth resembled a shark, according to a new analysis of the braincase of a 290-million-year-old fossil fish that...

Dinosaurs lighter than previously thought

Jun 12, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists have developed a new technique to accurately measure the weight and size of dinosaurs and discovered they are not as heavy as previously thought. Uni...

Reign of the giant insects ended with the evolution of birds

Jun 12, 2012 (SPX)

Giant insects ruled the prehistoric skies during periods when Earth's atmosphere was rich in oxygen. Then came the birds. After the evolution of birds about 150...