New technology allows scientists first glimpse of intricate details of Little Foot’s life
Credit: Copyright Diamond Light Source Ltd In June 2019, an international team brought the complete skull of the 3.67-million-year-old Little ...
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Examining the impact of climate change on Siberia’s stores of permafrost
Northumbria University is to play a leading role in a major study to assess the long-term impact of global warming ...
Behavior of wild capuchin monkeys can be identified by marks left on their tools
Scientists who study capuchin monkeys on a nature reserve in Brazil found that stone tools are used for digging, seed ...
Identified: A mechanism that protects plant fertility from stress
Credit: University of Warwick Spikes in temperature can affect a plant's fertility, resulting in a reduction of yield and economic ...
Dinosaur species: ‘Everyone’s unique’
Paleontologists from the Universities of Bonn and Liverpool examined 14 skulls of Plateosaurus trossingensisCredit: © Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn "Everyone's unique" ...
Pioneering prehistoric landscape reconstruction reveals early dinosaurs lived on tropical islands
Credit: Artwork by Fabio Pastori, pixel-shack.com; © University of Bristol A new study using leading edge technology has shed surprising ...
Paleontologists discover new insect group after solving 150-year-old mystery
SFU-led research team uncovers how fossil dragonfly relatives have been misclassified due to their striking similarityCredit: Copyright Zootaxa, used by ...
Scientists describe earliest primate fossils
Credit: Andrey Atuchin A new study published Feb. 24 in the journal Royal Society Open Science documents the earliest-known fossil ...
‘Problem of missing ice’ finally solved by movement of the earth’s crust
A new global ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80,000 yearsCredit: NIOZ, Kim Sauter During ice ages, the global mean ...
42,000-year-old trees allow more accurate analysis of last Earth’s magnetic field reversal
Radiocarbon measurements on the remains of 42.000 years old New Zealand kauri trees provide the basis for better calibration of ...
Fuel for earliest life forms: Organic molecules found in 3.5 billion-year-old rocks
Credit: Helge Missbach A research team including the geobiologist Dr. Helge Missbach from the University of Cologne has detected organic ...
Giant predatory worms roamed the seafloor until 5.3 million years ago
The seafloor was inhabited by giant predatory worms until 5.3 million years agoCredit: university of granada An international study in ...
CO2 dip may have helped dinosaurs walk from South America to Greenland
Climate shift may have aided herbivores on a 6,500-mile trekCredit: Lars Clemmensen A new paper refines estimates of when herbivorous ...
Mark Torres wins Geochemical Society’s Clarke Award
Early-career honor goes to fourth Rice U. geochemist in 12 yearsCredit: Photo by Woodward Fisher HOUSTON - (Feb. 12, 2021) ...
Fossil pigments shed new light on vertebrate evolution
UCC palaeontologists have discovered new evidence that the fate of vertebrate animals over the last 400 million years has been ...
Pensoft and ARPHA welcome three biodiversity-themed journals in their portfolio
Credit: Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria and Pensoft The scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft and its self-developed publishing platform ARPHA ...
Brain 3D genome study uncovers human-specific regulatory changes during development
Credit: Image by LUO Xin et al A team led by Prof. SU Bing from the Kunming Institute of Zoology ...
635 million-year-old fungi-like microfossil that bailed us out of an ice age discovered
It is the oldest terrestrial fossil ever found.Credit: Credit: Andrew Czaja of University of Cincinnati. When you think of fungi, ...
Diving into devonian seas: Ancient marine faunas unlock secrets of warming oceans
Credit: Syracuse University Members of Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences are shining new light on an enduring mystery--one ...
Important climate change mystery solved by scientists
Revised Holocene temperature record affirms role of greenhouse gases in recent millenniaCredit: IODP-JRSO Scientists have resolved a key climate change ...
