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Along the South American Pacific coast biodiversity does not decrease towards the poles, say Steffen Kiel and Sven Nielsen from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU).Normally, biodiversity decreases towards the poles, but fossil clams and snails found in chile, suggest that this does not happen along... |
5 October 2010
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Studies suggests that some of the oldest discoveries made, and some of the most interesting conclusions derived from analyzing archaeological sites may need to be revisited, as they could be misleading.Researchers say that this may be particularly true for studies of the Stone Age and its cultures. There are some thi... |
24 September 2010
10:43 GMT |
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A team of researchers managed to identify a possible evolutionary root for the sunflower family, whose origins have until now eluded detection. The fossilized plant was discovered in northern Argentina.Experts who got a chance to look at the artifact say that it is more than 45 million years old, and that it may very... |
24 September 2010
08:39 GMT |
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By harvesting coral fossils that are more than 20,000 years old, experts hope to be able to paint a clearer picture of how global sea levels may have changed over time, and especially since the last glacial period. A team of researchers recently conducted an expedition at the outer fringes of the Great Barrier Reef, ... |
7 September 2010
01:57 GMT |
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The latest discoveries made by paleontologists are always said to “rewrite evolutionary history”, but is this really true and mankind has learned nothing about its past?A few researchers at the University of Bristol wanted to find out exactly how strong is our understanding of evolution.The team led by Dr... |
1 September 2010
04:58 GMT |
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Researchers are positively thrilled at the discovery of a new fossil-rich dig site, which is located very close to the famous Burgess Shale. If the new location yields just half or a quarter the number of creatures discovered in the former, than its finding could be cataloged as an important success. The Burgess Shal... |
31 August 2010
09:56 GMT |
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A team of investigators announces the discovery of a new species of dinosaurs that they say is closely related to the renowned predator Velociraptor. The animal appears to have roamed the European continent during the Late Cretaceous period. This epoch ended with the K-T extinction event (the K-T boundary), which too... |
31 August 2010
05:11 GMT |
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The Isle of Wight is one of the richest places on Earth when it comes to dinosaur fossils and a new study revealed that it was fires and floods some 130 million years ago that made this place so “popular”. When dinosaurs lived and walked the earth, the climate was much warmer than today and on the Isle o... |
24 August 2010
10:01 GMT |
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Biologists say that, while humans have been struggling to achieve methods of exercising mind control over each other, the animal kingdom has been doing it for millions of years. Scientists say that creatures controlling other animals' brains are not a new concept in nature. There are numerous cases in which... |
18 August 2010
07:07 GMT |
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A team of investigators may have just discovered the oldest fossils of animal bodies ever found on Earth, a finding that pushes the estimated time when researchers believe animals appeared on the planet to more than 650 million years ago.The discovery was made in Australia, and the team behind it says that the sponge... |
18 August 2010
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A recently discovered fossilized English landscape has been the subject of a new research led by a team of scientists from the University of Leicester, published in the Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association.The area in question is called the English Fenlands, and it stretched across Cambridgeshire, Lincoln... |
16 August 2010
09:48 GMT |
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Experts have recently produced a new three-dimensional model of a marine animal that lived close to the moment when the first life forms appeared. In the August 4 issue of the esteemed scientific journal Biology Letters, scientists at the Imperial College London present the computer simulation of the blob-like creatu... |
4 August 2010
21:01 GMT |
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The geological record shows that our planet experienced a period of low temperatures some 12,900 years ago. This time frame has been dubbed the Ice Age, and experts have believed for a long time that it was caused by a meteorite, or other space rock, slamming into Earth. However, new evidence appear to indicate that ... |
26 July 2010
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In a strange twist, scientists recently managed to uncover the remains of a dinosaur that appears to have been killed off while searching for prey. The creature was most likely clawing at the ground, getting ready to unearth a buried “snack,” most likely a mammal. Dated back to 75 million to 80 million ye... |
22 July 2010
10:04 GMT |
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Researchers discovered fossils from a group of ancient wombat-like animals in outback Queensland. The fossils from newborns to adults, show how these animals evolved. Scientists observed some similarities between nowadays marsupials and their ancestors. Even if they look like long-legged wombats, the animals belong t... |
15 July 2010
09:55 GMT |
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A group of researches from the University of Lyon in France recently discovered that ancient marine reptiles were significantly different from the fish that lived at the same time. They are not talking just about body shape and size, but also about the ability that some creatures had to retain their bodily temperatur... |
11 June 2010
07:03 GMT |
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Scientists have always thought it was funny how a single creature could by itself force science to reconsider established knowledge. In the most recent such instance, investigators determined that the small fossil called Nectocaris pteryx – formerly classified as a shrimp with a chordate tail – was none o... |
27 May 2010
05:47 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, it was revealed that analyzing the isotopic signature of various chemicals found in the bone, and especially the teeth, of ancient animals could give researchers more clues as to how warm the creatures' bodies were. The new investigations method relies on looking at the way in which ve... |
25 May 2010
04:48 GMT |
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From the Oligocene to the Pleistocene epoch, megalodon was the largest shark to have ever lived. It roamed Earth's waters between 25 and 1.5 million years ago, and researchers say that it is the ancestor of modern-day sharks. These creatures could grow to impressive sizes, with some specimens believed to have be... |
19 May 2010
02:35 GMT |
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While digging at a site in Morocco, researchers managed to discover a new series of fossils, which seem to play a very important role in clearing up some of the aspects of the current record of early marine lifeforms. Experts have always said that the dataset was not complete, but even so numerous black holes existed... |
13 May 2010
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Anthropologists and paleontologists are currently puzzled over the discovery of a new primate fossil, which apparently does not fit neatly into the evolutionary tree researchers created thus far. The animal exhibits peculiarities that make it somewhat of a black sheep among other primates. The feature that stands out... |
11 May 2010
05:18 GMT |
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One of the smallest dinosaurs ever found was recently unearthed in China by a team of archaeologists. The experts say that the fossilized remains would seem to indicate that this particular creature was one of the fastest and most agile to have lived in its days, and have therefore dubbed it as a “roadrunner.&r... |
30 March 2010
15:11 GMT |
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Not two years ago, as they were digging around in a Siberian cave, researchers from the Russian Federation came across a bone fragment that appeared to belong to a human. Assuming that the remain was from a Neanderthalian ancestor, the team put the bone shard away for storage. They had every reason to do so. The area... |
25 March 2010
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According to the results of a new scientific study, a sand dune collapse that took place some 185 million years ago may have been the principal factor behind a dinosaur fossil recovered from Utah. Researchers hypothesize in a recently-published study that a large amount of the stuff collapsed at one point, hitting a ... |
24 March 2010
04:59 GMT |
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Dinosaurs were the ultimate rulers of our planet for many millions of years, particularly within a time span stretching from 200 million years ago to roughly 65 million years ago. Marked by two catastrophic extinction events, the time of the dinosaurs is divided in the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, and e... |
23 March 2010
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A group of archaeologists and paleontologists has recently made an important discovery when they unearthed the remains of a dinosaur that was found to be closely related to the famous Velociraptor. The fossilized bones were discovered in inner Mongolia, and the research team is ecstatic with the discovery. The two di... |
19 March 2010
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Researchers have recently determined that an ancient, crocodile-like reptile had an appetite for eating sea turtles, as well as dinosaurs. According to evidence found on bones and shells, it would seem that the predator, which was about the length of two modern cars, did not resent eating most things it could find, e... |
19 March 2010
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A team of investigators has recently been able to reconstruct an impressive battle scene between a dolphin and a shark, which is believed to have taken place some 4 million years ago. The data needed to put together what happened was collected from bite marks and other tell-tale signs from the fossilized remains of t... |
18 March 2010
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According to a new scientific study, experts managed to discover the fossilized remains of dinosaur ancestors dating back to at least 243 million years ago. This new finding pushes back the date when the giant lizards developed by at least 10 million years, experts say. The ancestor discovered during the new digs goe... |
4 March 2010
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Genetic analysis of the DNA in a polar bear jawbone has finally yielded the first genome of the polar animal. The fossil, which was recovered in 2004 from Svalbard, Norway, belongs to a specimen that lived between 110,000 and 130,000 years ago, and researchers say that it provided them with definite proof that this s... |
2 March 2010
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Scientists have recently discovered that a fearsome crocodile might have been one of the predators feasting on ancient humans. In those times, when our ancestors were trying to make a life for themselves in Africa, the animals they chased often had a mind of not being eaten. Rather, they preferred eating the humans i... |
24 February 2010
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The sauropods were the largest animals to have ever inhabited the planet. No beasts before or since managed to equal them in size and might. They fed on herbs and leaves, and researchers believe that they evolved their massive bodies in order to be able to reach the tallest canopies. This also enabled these dinosaurs... |
24 February 2010
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Scientists announce the discovery of an impressive new fossil in the United States. Experts digging at a site in Kansas have unearthed a number of fragments belonging to a huge aquatic predator, including scales, teeth, and a very large jawbone. This gave them an idea as to the size of the marine creature, most likel... |
24 February 2010
06:49 GMT |
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Many years after the initial fossils were discovered, paleontologists finally managed to learn that the spinosaur was a giant lizard that really loved water. In fact, it loved it so much that it spent most of its life living and hunting in shallow streams or along shorelines. This in turn allowed it to remain relati... |
20 February 2010
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Filter feeders are animals that live most often in the water, which are specialized in feeding off of suspended matter floating in seas and oceans. These animals, birds and fish mostly, tend to feature specialized filtering structures in their mouths, which allows them to select the food of interest, while discarding... |
19 February 2010
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Scientists working on analyzing fossils of gastropods found to be dating just one million years after the Permian-Triassic extinction event were puzzled to discover specimens that were up to seven centimeters in size. The P-T boundary was the largest event of the five extinctions, leading to more than 90 percent of a... |
12 February 2010
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Over the past few years, more and more scientific studies that refute the widely held idea that birds evolved from dinosaurs have been published in various respected journals around the globe. Such is the case with a new paper appearing in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), wh... |
10 February 2010
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Chinese experts have recently unearthed one of the most well-preserved fossils ever. It was left behind by a type of spider known as Eoplectreurys gertschi, of which only two other specimens were ever recovered. However, the newly discovered one is more than 120 million years older than its “peers,” as it... |
9 February 2010
05:47 GMT |
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Experts digging in the Zhucheng province of China have recently discovered what is arguably one of the largest and most massive troves of dinosaur footprints ever found. More than 3,000 fossilized tracks, belonging to several species, have been discovered at a site that has been under excavation for at least three mo... |
8 February 2010
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Scientists are excited at the possibility of having just discovered the oldest, most ancient tracks ever laid by a creature walking on Earth. The markings have now been estimated to be around 565 million years old, which makes them the oldest relics of ground-based locomotion ever. This means that the animal that mad... |
3 February 2010
10:18 GMT |
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Scientists have recently developed a new method of analyzing our ancestry, by studying fossils more than 500 million years old. This is apparently facilitated by studying modern, decomposing fish. It would seem that the rotting creatures help paleontologists gain new insight into how creatures on our part of the evol... |
1 February 2010
03:30 GMT |
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Sometime in 2004, the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in China provided experts with the fossilized remains of a dinosaur that could not be cataloged. At that time, experts who had seen it had proposed that the creature was part of a new species, and their predictions eventually turned out to be true. The animal was named... |
29 January 2010
00:43 GMT |
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In a scientific paper published in the latest issue of the esteemed scientific publication Nature, researchers in China detail the appearance of a small dinosaur that lived more than 125 million years ago. Known as Sinosauropteryx, the tiny animal, which wasn't even tall enough to reach your knee, appears to hav... |
28 January 2010
05:05 GMT |
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Among anthropologists and paleontologists, there has been a longstanding debate as to whether feathered dinosaurs, the early ancestors of modern birds, took to the skies by making longer and longer leaps from the ground, or by jumping off tree branches. A recent investigation appears to have what it takes to settle t... |
26 January 2010
04:54 GMT |
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The expression “blind as a bat” is deeply rooted in scientific truth. These animals can't see even the smallest amount of light, and fly solely based on echolocation. This is a method in which they emit ultrasounds (noises that are pitched too high for the human ear to detect), and then listen to the... |
25 January 2010
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English researchers at the University of Bristol publish a new study in this week's issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) showcasing how the fossilized tooth of a 30,000-year-old boy shapes our understanding of our species' evolution. The path that modern humans took in... |
7 January 2010
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Evolutionary biologists say that, as the early life of the Earth evolved, the oceans were the main social scene around. This was until some species decided that the competition was too steep, and wanted to try something different. So they did, and some of them started living in shallow waters near shorelines, making ... |
7 January 2010
03:17 GMT |
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Three students from the University of Alberta, in Canada, have recently contributed to clearing up a mistake that has endured in the field of paleontology since the 1970s. Through their work, they helped revert a dinosaur species to a more suitable classification. In an odd twist, the new classification is the same a... |
28 December 2009
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The renowned New Mexico archaeological site known as Ghost Ranch has recently revealed a fossil that sheds some light on one of the most obscured periods in history, the time in the Triassic Age when the dinosaurs' evolution became clouded in mystery. The newly discovered animal, Tawa hallae, is one of the best ... |
11 December 2009
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Over the course of its restless history, our planet has also experienced bottlenecks, series of events that almost destroyed all life on Earth. There were five known such instances, which are now called extinction events. During these ages, which scientists have yet to analyze in full detail, most animal and plant li... |
4 December 2009
04:18 GMT |
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