News tagged with cenozoic era
Dating an ancient episode of severe global warming
Using sophisticated methods of dating rocks, a team including University of Southampton researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, have pinned down the timing of the start of an episode ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 15, 2011 |
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California's Channel Islands hold evidence of Clovis-age comets
A 17-member team has found what may be the smoking gun of a much-debated proposal that a cosmic impact about 12,900 years ago ripped through North America and drove multiple species into extinction.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Hot-spring fossils preserve complete Jurassic ecosystem
Scientists are uncovering a beautifully-preserved ecosystem from around a Jurassic hot spring, helping fill a gap in the fossil record of more than 300 million years.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 02, 2012 |
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Advanced Light Source finds big surprise in Paleozoic scorpion fossil
(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s not quite Jurassic Park, but who wants Paleozoic scorpions scurrying around anyway? Scientists used a powerful microscope at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Unexpected exoskeleton remnants found in Paleozoic fossils
Surprising new research shows that, contrary to conventional belief, remains of chitin-protein complex -- structural materials containing protein and polysaccharide -- are present in abundance in fossils of ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 07, 2011 |
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Geoscientist offers new evidence that meteorite did not wipe out dinosaurs
A Princeton University geoscientist who has stirred controversy with her studies challenging a popular theory that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs has compiled powerful new evidence asserting her position.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 04, 2009 |
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Shell-breaking crabs lived 20 million years earlier than thought
While waiting for colleagues at a small natural history museum in the state of Chiapas, Mexico last year, Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl chanced upon a discovery that has helped rewrite the evolutionary ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Researcher finds fossilized shell-breaking crab
While waiting for colleagues at a small natural history museum in the state of Chiapas, Mexico last year, Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl chanced upon a discovery that has helped rewrite the evolutionary ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Age of second largest desert disputed
Scientists in China say they have found evidence proving their nation's Taklimakan Desert, the world's second-largest desert, is older than thought.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 18, 2007 |
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Scientists discover first fossil of a leaf insect
Stick and leaf insects both belong to the insect order “Phamatodea,” or “phasmid” for short, a term which shares the same roots as the word “phantom.” Besides appropriately describing the species’ illusory ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 08, 2007 |
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The Moon is a Harsh Witness
With binoculars, examine the rugged face of the Moon. It is pocked with thousands of impact craters from interplanetary asteroids and comets. Ever wonder why Earth, a much bigger target, apparently has so few ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 26, 2007 |
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Insect predation sheds light on food web recovery after the dinosaur extinction
The recovery of biodiversity after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction was much more chaotic than previously thought, according to paleontologists. New fossil evidence shows that at certain times and places, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 24, 2006 |
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