A detailed study of marine animals that died out over the past 23 million years can help identify which animals and ocean ecosystems may be most at risk of extinction today, according to an international team of paleontologists ...
Ecology
Apr 30, 2015
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Like a master painter who uses the same brush techniques to continually create original works of art, evolution has produced unique species to fill new or vacated ecological functions by tinkering with just a few basic body ...
Evolution
Mar 4, 2015
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New research by the University of Sheffield has warned of the increasing risk of extinction to our marine life.
Ecology
Jan 29, 2015
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A study of tooth enamel in mammals living today in the equatorial forest of Gabon could ultimately shed light on the diet of long extinct animals, according to new research from the University of Bristol.
Archaeology
Dec 22, 2014
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Now extinct giant kangaroos most likely could not hop and used a more rigid body posture to move their hindlimbs one at a time, according to a study published October 15, 2014 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Christine ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 15, 2014
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Depictions of animals in ancient Egyptian artifacts have helped scientists assemble a detailed record of the large mammals that lived in the Nile Valley over the past 6,000 years. A new analysis of this record shows that ...
Ecology
Sep 8, 2014
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Clues contained in mice teeth have allowed scientists to reconstruct evolutionary history in the laboratory.
Archaeology
Jul 31, 2014
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Animals have used the same technique to search for food that's in short supply for at least 50 million years, a study suggests.
Archaeology
Jul 15, 2014
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At the start of their research, paleobiologists Christine Janis and Borja Figueirido simply wanted to determine the hunting style of an extinct marsupial called Thylacine (also known as the "marsupial wolf" or the "Tasmanian ...
Archaeology
Jun 30, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Scientists from across the world have "scanned the horizon" in order to identify potentially significant medium and long-term threats to conservation efforts.
Ecology
Dec 24, 2013
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