Last Interglacial: warming amplified in mountain environments
Speleothems turned out to be a great stroke of luck: dripstones from two caves in the Swiss Alps provide for ...
Tag: Paleontology
Using water fleas, UTA researchers investigate adaptive evolution
Through preserved eggs, UTA team studies how species respond to invasive predatorCredit: Matthew Walsh, UTA associate professor of biology. Researchers ...
Artificial intelligence finds surprising patterns in Earth’s biological mass extinctions
The idea that mass extinctions allow many new types of species to evolve is a central concept in evolution, but ...
How hot is too hot for life deep below the ocean floor?
Publication in Science: International team researches the limits of lifeCredit: Photo: JAMSTEC At what depth beneath the seabed does it ...
Offshore submarine freshwater discovery raises hopes for islands worldwide
Credit: University of Hawai'i Twice as much freshwater is stored offshore of Hawai'i Island than was previously thought, according to ...
The first detection of marine fish DNA in sediment sequences going back 300 years
Can sedimentary DNA technology track the long-term dynamics of macro-organism species?Credit: Michinobu Kuwae, CMES, Ehime University Long-term variability in the ...
Ancient crocodiles’ family tree reveals unexpected twists and turns
Scientists probing a prehistoric crocodile group's shadowy past have discovered a timeless truth - pore over anyone's family tree long ...
Baby dinosaurs were ‘little adults’
Paleontologists describe skeleton of a juvenile Plateosaurus for the first timeCredit: © Sauriermuseum Frick, Switzerland Long neck, small head and ...
Core value of the Chengjian fauna: evolution of animals and birth of basic human organs
Scientists explain the significance of Chengjiang fauna, exceptionally preserved fossils found in ChinaCredit: Earth Science Frontiers Much of what we ...
The first duckbill dinosaur fossil from Africa hints at how dinosaurs once crossed oceans
Credit: Credit: Raul Martin The first fossils of a duckbilled dinosaur have been discovered in Africa, suggesting dinosaurs crossed hundreds ...
Magma ‘conveyor belt’ fuelled world’s longest erupting supervolcanoes
Credit: Pixabay International research led by geologists from Curtin University has found that a volcanic province in the Indian Ocean ...
Lizard skull fossil is new and ‘perplexing’ extinct species
Credit: Simon Scarpetta In 2017, while browsing the fossil collections of Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History, University of Texas ...
Just like us – Neanderthal children grew and were weaned similar to us
Neanderthals introduced solid food in their children's diet at around 5-6 months of ageCredit: ERC project SUCCESS, University of Bologna, ...
New study finds earliest evidence for mammal social behavior
Credit: Misaki Ouchida A new study led by paleontologists at the University of Washington and its Burke Museum of Natural ...
New research reports discovery of 5-million-year-old honey badger-like animal
New research reports on discovery of 5-million-year-old honey badger-like animal from West Coast of South AfricaCredit: Picture: Romala Govender Five ...
Cracking the secrets of dinosaur eggshells
Credit: Adapted from ACS Omega 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c03334 Since the famous discovery of dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert in ...
Antarctica yields oldest fossils of giant birds with 21-foot wingspans
Two fossils from a group of extinct seabirds represent the largest individuals ever foundCredit: Copyright Brian Choo Fossils recovered from ...
Large tides may have driven evolution of fish towards life on land
Credit: Mattias Green/Bangor University Big tidal ranges some 400 million years ago may have initiated the evolution of bony fish ...
Modern computational tools may open a new era for fossil pollen research
Credit: Doug Peterson One of the best sources of information on the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems and plant diversity over ...
Seabird response to abrupt climate change 5,000 years ago transformed Falklands ecosystems
Credit: Photo by Dulcinea Groff Orono, Maine -- The Falkland Islands are a South Atlantic refuge for some of the ...
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