Paleontology: Diversification after mass extinction
A team led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich paleontologist Adriana López-Arbarello has identified three hitherto unknown fossil fish species in ...
Tag: Paleontology
500-million-year old worm ‘superhighway’ discovered in Canada
Credit: Professor Brian Pratt, University of Saskatchewan Prehistoric worms populated the sea bed 500 million years ago--evidence that life was ...
Amoebae diversified at least 750 million years ago, far earlier than expected
Reconstitution of Amoebozoa's evolution shows significant Precambrian species diversity; this study changes the view of how life evolved in the ...
New findings shed light on origin of upright walking in human ancestors
4.5 million-year old fossil shows evidence of greater reliance on bipedalism than previously suggestedCredit: Case Western Reserve University School of ...
Giant animals lived in Amazonian mega-wetland
Lake systems existing in regions over 10 million years ago survived the Amazon River reversal due to Andean uplift A ...
Bristol undergraduate reconstructs the skulls of 2 species of ancient reptile
Credit: Image by Sophie Chambi-Trowell. Using two partially fragmented fossil skulls, a student at the University of Bristol has digitally ...
Did volcanoes kill the dinosaurs? New evidence points to ‘maybe.’
New precise ages for Deccan Traps volcanoes ties the second major eruption pulse to the mass extinctionCredit: Gerta Keller, Department ...
Extinct weasel relative with confounding skull likely ate meat with a side of veggies
New biomechanical study finds that the strangely shaped skull of Leptarctus is most similar to the American badgerCredit: © AMNH/N. ...
Foxes were domesticated by humans in the Bronze Age
Credit: J. A. Peñas In the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, between the third and second millennium BC, a widespread ...
Surprising findings on forest fires
Researchers at the University of Bonn used drill cores to trace back the fires of the past 600,000 yearsCredit: (c) ...
New species of tiny tyrannosaur foreshadows rise of T. rex
Credit: Jorge Gonzalez A newly discovered, diminutive - by T. rex standards - relative of the tyrant king of dinosaurs ...
Earth may be 140 years away from reaching carbon levels not seen in 56 million years
WASHINGTON -- Total human carbon dioxide emissions could match those of Earth's last major greenhouse warming event in fewer than ...
Earliest example of animal nest sharing revealed by scientists
Credit: Gareth Dyke An international team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Southampton, has shown that fossilised eggshells ...
New clue in curious case of cassowary casque
200-year-old mystery surrounding iconic Australian bird A team of Australian scientists has completed research that could help solve a 200-year-old ...
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