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NASA Astrobiologists Find Iron's Role In Life On Early Earth
Jun 08, 2012 (SPX)
When life began on Earth, iron may have done the job of magnesium, making life possible. On the periodic table of the elements, iron and magnesium are far apart...
New understanding of terrestrial formation has significant and far reaching future implications
Jun 08, 2012 (SPX)
The current theory of continental drift provides a good model for understanding terrestrial processes through history. However, while plate tectonics is able to...
On early Earth, iron may have performed magnesium's RNA folding job
Jun 01, 2012 (SPX)
On the periodic table of the elements, iron and magnesium are far apart. But new evidence suggests that 3 billion years ago, iron did the chemical work now done...
Timing is everything
May 30, 2012 (SPX)
At first glance, it's hard to see how a common house sparrow and a Tyrannosaurus Rex might have anything in common. After all, one is a bird that weighs less th...
10 million years to recover from mass extinction
May 30, 2012 (SPX)
It took some 10 million years for Earth to recover from the greatest mass extinction of all time, latest research has revealed. Life was nearly wiped out 250 mi...
Forty ancient sites discovered in Iraq
May 28, 2012 (AFP)
Teams of Iraqi archaeologists have discovered 40 ancient sites in the country's south from the Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian periods, an Iraqi antiquities o...
Ancient giant turtle fossil revealed
May 25, 2012 (SPX)
Picture a turtle the size of a Smart car, with a shell large enough to double as a kiddie pool. Paleontologists from North Carolina State University have found ...
Human-like spine morphology found in aquatic eel fossil
May 25, 2012 (SPX)
For decades, scientists believed that a spine with multiple segments was an exclusive feature of land-dwelling animals. But the discovery of the same anatomical...
Squid ink from Jurassic period identical to modern squid ink
May 24, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of researchers, including a University of Virginia professor, has found that two ink sacs from 160-million-year-old giant cephalopod fossi...
Ancient plant-fungal partnerships reveal how the world became green
May 16, 2012 (SPX)
Prehistoric plants grown in state-of-the-art growth chambers recreating environmental conditions from more than 400 million years ago have shown scientists from...
Ancient sea reptile with gammy jaw suggests dinosaurs got arthritis too
May 16, 2012 (SPX)
The Bristol scientists studied a giant specimen of the pliosaur Pliosaurus dating from the Upper Jurassic. Found in Westbury, Wiltshire, it has been kept since ...
Amber preserves earliest pollination clue
May 15, 2012 (UPI)
Amber from 100-million-year-old deposits in Northern Spain has preserved and revealed the first ever record of insect pollination, scientists say. Specimens of ...
Earth history and evolution
May 15, 2012 (SPX)
In classical mythology, the cypress tree is associated with death, the underworld and eternity. Indeed, the family to which cypresses belong, is an ancient line...
New study shows bird color variations speed up evolution
May 14, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers have found that bird species with multiple plumage colour forms within in the same population, evolve into new species faster than those with only o...
New coelacanth find rewrites history of the ancient fish
May 08, 2012 (SPX)
Coelacanths, an ancient group of fishes once thought to be long extinct, made headlines in 1938 when one of their modern relatives was caught off the coast of S...
Jurassic pain: Giant 'flea-like' insects plagued dinosaurs 165 million years ago
May 03, 2012 (SPX)
It takes a gutsy insect to sneak up on a huge dinosaur while it sleeps, crawl onto its soft underbelly and give it a bite that might have felt like a needle goi...
Were dinosaurs undergoing long-term decline before mass extinction?
May 03, 2012 (SPX)
Despite years of intensive research about the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs about 65.5 million years ago, a fundamental question remains: were dinosaurs alr...
Mysterious 'Monster' Discovered By Amateur Paleontologist
Apr 30, 2012 (SPX)
Around 450 million years ago, shallow seas covered the Cincinnati region and harbored one very large and now very mysterious organism. Despite its size, no one ...
Did bone ease acid for early land crawlers?
Apr 27, 2012 (SPX)
Here's an anatomical packing list for making that historic trip from water to land circa 370 million years ago: Lungs? Check. Legs? Check. Patches of highly vas...
Finding the roots and early branches of the tree of life
Apr 26, 2012 (SPX)
A study published in PLoS Computational Biology maps the development of life-sustaining chemistry to the history of early life. Researchers Rogier Braakman and ...
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