A team of researchers at the Natural History Museum in London and the Western Australian Museum have discovered a new species of very small, incredibly fast, extinct Australian Pigfooted Bandicoot.
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2019
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For the development of animals, nothing—with the exception of DNA—may be more important than oxygen in the atmosphere.
Earth Sciences
Jan 2, 2017
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The prevailing notion that the African continent has been getting progressively drier over time is being challenged by a new study that finds that drought has actually decreased over the past 1.3 million years and that the ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 21, 2016
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Scientists long have used the "molecular clock" to establish when species may have branched from each other on the Tree of Life.
Evolution
Nov 30, 2015
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Molecular clocks—based on changes in genetic material—indicate much younger ages for a wide variety of plants found as fossils in southern Argentina than do the solid, geologic dates of those fossils, according to geoscientists ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Dec 2, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from the U.K. (led by Mario dos Reis) is directly challenging the results of a study conducted by another team (led by Maureen O'Leary) that concluded last year that placental mammals came ...
An organic geochemist has found fat molecules within fossilised remains in the central Kimberley's Devonian Reef.
Archaeology
Nov 11, 2013
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The fossilised remains of a reptile closely related to lizards are the oldest yet to be discovered. Two new fossil jaws discovered in Vellberg, Germany provide the first direct evidence that the ancestors of lizards, snakes ...
Archaeology
Sep 24, 2013
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Analysis of DNA extracted from a fossil tooth recovered in southern Siberia confirms that the tooth belonged to one of the oldest known ancestors of the modern dog, and is described in research published March 6 in the open ...
Archaeology
Mar 6, 2013
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With its deeply embedded roots, sturdy trunk and dense profusion of branches, the Tree of Life is a structure of nearly unfathomable complexity and beauty. While major strides have been made to establish the evolutionary ...
Evolution
Nov 6, 2012
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