A University of Queensland researcher is part of an international team that has validated the fossilized footprints of several dinosaurs in a restaurant in China.
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 5, 2023
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An international research team led by Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, determined that Troodon, a dinosaur very close to modern birds, was a warm-blooded animal (an endotherm), but had a reproductive system similar to ...
Evolution
Apr 3, 2023
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Unchecked hunting and environmental degradation in tropical forests, which previous studies have correlated with the reduction of large animals in this biome, may impede the generational renewal of large fruit and seed-producing ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 10, 2023
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A new study reveals that the evolution of sunscreen pigments in lichen-forming fungi has been governed by the reshuffling of existing enzyme genes and novel accessory genes into new gene clusters.
Evolution
Feb 9, 2023
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The discovery of an 80-million-year-old fossil plant pushes back the known origins of lamiids to the Cretaceous, extending the record of nearly 40,000 species of flowering plants including modern-day staple crops like coffee, ...
Evolution
Feb 7, 2023
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Alberta has been ground zero for dinosaur discoveries in Canada since the 1880s, when several Geological Survey of Canada expeditions collected dinosaur bones from the southern part of the province.
Evolution
Feb 3, 2023
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A study led by The University of Texas at Austin is providing a glimpse into dinosaur and bird diversity in Patagonia during the Late Cretaceous, just before the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jan 12, 2023
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Have you ever eaten chicken feet? If you haven't, you might be surprised to learn there's actually quite a bit of flesh down there. And scales too! They're wonderful—and informative—pieces of engineering.
Evolution
Dec 21, 2022
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Glaciers have been present somewhere on Earth for at least 60 million years, a period stretching back almost to the time of the dinosaurs. That's the key finding of our new research, which pushes the date when the planet ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 16, 2022
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Australia, home to the most unusual animal species on the planet that defy imagination, can now lay claim to being the wellspring of modern mammal evolution.
Evolution
Dec 15, 2022
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