EARLY EARTH - INDO DAILY

Mar 14, 2012 (UPI)

An Australian study challenges a theory that the disappearance of dinosaurs 65 million years ago is what allowed modern mammals to flourish, researchers say. Re...

Scientists document first consumption of abundant life form, Archaea

Mar 13, 2012 (SPX)

A team of scientists has documented for the first time that animals can and do consume Archaea - a type of single-celled microorganism thought to be among the m...

Seeing without eyes: Hydra stinging cells respond to light

Mar 12, 2012 (SPX)

In the absence of eyes, the fresh water polyp, Hydra magnipapillata, nevertheless reacts to light. They are diurnal, hunting during the day, and are known to mo...

UC Santa Barbara researchers discover genetic link between visual pathways of hydras and humans

Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)

What good is half an eye? Evolutionary biologists studying the origins of vision get that question a lot, and new research out of UC Santa Barbara points to a p...

Evidence of iridescent feathers in a tree-hopping dino

Mar 08, 2012 (AFP)

US and Chinese researchers have found the oldest evidence of iridescent black feathers in Microraptor, a dinosaur the size of a small crow that perched in fores...

T. rex has most powerful bite of any terrestrial animal

Mar 06, 2012 (SPX)

Research at the University of Liverpool, using computer models to reconstruct the jaw muscle of Tyrannosaurus rex, has suggested that the dinosaur had the most ...

When continents collide: A new twist to a 50 million-year-old tale

Mar 05, 2012 (SPX)

Fifty million years ago, India slammed into Eurasia, a collision that gave rise to the tallest landforms on the planet, the Himalaya Mountains and the Tibetan P...

Polysternon isonae, a new species of turtle that lived with dinosaurs in Isona

Mar 01, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at the Institut Catala de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), the Museu de la Conca Della (MCD) and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) ha...

Continental Uplift and Biodiversity Cycles

Feb 29, 2012 (SPX)

A mysterious cycle of booms and busts in marine biodiversity over the past 500 million years could be tied to a periodic uplifting of the world's continents, sc...

The Legacy of the Megaflood

Feb 22, 2012 (SPX)

Ambling through the parched and scarred landscape of eastern Washington state is the 60-mile-long Grand Coulee, the largest of the stair-step canyons that give ...

Lava formations in western US linked to rip in giant slab of Earth

Feb 22, 2012 (SPX)

Like a stream of air shooting out of an airplane's broken window to relieve cabin pressure, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego sa...

Building Blocks of Early Earth Survived Collision that Created Moon

Feb 20, 2012 (SPX)

Unexpected new findings by a University of Maryland team of geochemists show that some portions of the Earth's mantle (the rocky layer between Earth's metallic ...

Tidal Forces Could Squeeze Out Planetary Water

Feb 10, 2012 (SPX)

Alien planets might experience tidal forces powerful enough to remove all their water, leaving behind hot, dry worlds like Venus, researchers said. These findin...

A battle of the vampires, 20 million years ago?

Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)

They are tiny, ugly, disease-carrying little blood-suckers that most people have never seen or heard of, but a new discovery in a one-of-a-kind fossil shows tha...

Global Extinction: Gradual Doom Is Just As Bad As Abrupt

Feb 08, 2012 (SPX)

A painstakingly detailed investigation shows that mass extinctions need not be sudden events. The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 p...