(PhysOrg.com) -- A collection of new fossil finds in Scotland that date back to the 15 million year period between 345 and 360 million years ago are helping to fill the almost blank fossil record during a ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 06, 2012 3.1 / 5 (9) 4 |

(Phys.org) —A pair of researchers from Germany's Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität have published a paper in the journal Biology Letters, suggesting that the mass extinction of pseudosuchians approximately 201 mi ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 28, 2013 4.5 / 5 (8) 5 |

In the search for sustainability of the ocean's fisheries, solutions can be found in a surprising place: the ancient past.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 23, 2012 4.8 / 5 (4) 4 |

(Phys.org) -- Invisible to the human eye, cryptotephra is a fine volcanic glass that is blasted out of erupting volcanoes along with ash. It leaves behind a hidden layer, in the earth, which has now been detected, ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Aug 06, 2012 4.4 / 5 (5) 4 |

New research paves the way for the development of a vaccine for the Tasmanian devil, currently on the brink of extinction because of a contagious cancer.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 11, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

Concerns that many animals are becoming extinct, before scientists even have time to identify them, are greatly overstated according Griffith University researcher, Professor Nigel Stork.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 24, 2013 2.6 / 5 (5) 15 |

(Phys.org)—A new study is finally laying to rest the debate over whether DNA from the age of the dinosaurs could survive to the present day.

Biology - Biotechnology

Oct 10, 2012 4.1 / 5 (7) 5 |

The Cretaceous Period of Earth history ended with a mass extinction that wiped out numerous species, most famously the dinosaurs. A new study now finds that the structure of North American ecosystems made ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 29, 2012 4.2 / 5 (9) 1 |

(Phys.org) —The inside of the skull of a 100-million-year-old pterosaur has been seen by Natural History Museum fossil experts for the first time. Computed tomography (CT) scans revealed details of the ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 22, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 2 |

From protozoans to mammals, evolution has created more and more complex structures and better-adapted organisms. This is all the more astonishing as most genetic mutations are deleterious. Especially in small ...

Biology - Evolution

Aug 10, 2012 3.6 / 5 (5) 18 |

You are what you eat is truism that has been given new impetus by 'cutting edge' research led by the University of Leicester that reveals your teeth are literally shaped by your food.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Apr 03, 2012 3.8 / 5 (5) 0 |

Animals from very different groups that developed independently into plankton-eating giants took similar evolutionary steps along the way, new research shows.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 15, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 1 |

Previous studies have shown that carnivores can have indirect positive effects on each other, which means that when one species is lost, others could soon follow. A team from the University of Exeter and the University of ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 28, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Science has charted a close relationship between the number of species in a given region and the area of the region. This relationship has been documented for many present-day environments, where it can be used ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Aug 30, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

A team of researchers from the University of Bristol, Natural History Museum of London, the University of Missouri and Ohio University has discovered the eating habits of Diplodocus using a three-dimensional ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jul 30, 2012 4.3 / 5 (6) 0 |