Fossilised newborns, egg shells, and egg bursters preserved together in amber provide the first direct evidence of how insects hatched in deep time, according to a new article published today in the journal Palaeontology.
Archaeology
Dec 20, 2018
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When did animals originate? In research published in the journal Palaeontology, we show that this question is answered by Cambrian period fossils of a frond-like sea creature called Stromatoveris psygmoglena.
Archaeology
Aug 10, 2018
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A newly published experimental protocol, involving University of Bristol scientists, could change the way fossilisation is studied.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 25, 2018
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Fossil discoveries from the Devonian rocks of Scotland and Australia first revealed that the earliest jawed fishes, the placoderms, reproduced using copulation in much the same way as sharks and rays do today.
Archaeology
Jul 19, 2018
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Fossils come in many shapes and sizes, ranging from isolated fragments of bones and teeth to complete skeletons.
Archaeology
Jul 16, 2018
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Scientists have measured the nutritional value of herbivore dinosaurs' diet by growing their food in atmospheric conditions similar to those found roughly 150 million years ago.
Archaeology
Jul 13, 2018
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New U of T Scarborough research has found that the ancestor of the modern day mountain beaver had a larger relative brain size.
Evolution
Jun 27, 2018
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New research has revealed how the history of life can be distorted by the ways animals decompose and lose body parts as they decay—and the ways in which decayed bodies ultimately become fossilised.
Archaeology
Mar 21, 2018
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Many creatures can use electric fields to communicate, sense predators or stun their prey with powerful electric shocks, but how this ability came about was a mystery.
Archaeology
Feb 13, 2018
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One of the largest global mass extinctions did not fundamentally change marine ecosystems, scientists have found.
Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2017
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