Posts Tagged ‘fossils’
Massive Cascadia quake on the horizon?
U. PENNSYLVANIA (US) — Tiny fossils offer clues to a 1700 earthquake in the Pacific Northwest that was strong enough to cause a tsunami as far away as Japan. Continue…
Thursday, May 16, 2013 13:12 - 0 Comments
Society & Culture - May 15, 2013 10:16 - 0 Comments
DNA reveals origins of Minoan civilization
U. WASHINGTON (US) — DNA from skeletal remains clears up competing theories about the origins of the earliest European civilization. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 14, 2013 10:00 - 0 Comments
Ape-like ear bones found in hominin skull
TEXAS A&M (US) — Ear bone fossils discovered in the skull of a hominin believed to be about 1.9 million years old have features found in both humans and apes. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 2, 2013 12:22 - 1 Comment
Ape pelvis fills gap in evolution puzzle
U. MISSOURI (US) — Experts say the pelvis from an 11.9 million-year-old ape skeleton suggests the primate probably lived near the beginning of the great ape evolution. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Apr 23, 2013 6:24 - 0 Comments
Snail fossils show when Earth turned icy
U. MICHIGAN (US) — Fossil snail shells offer new clues to an abrupt climate shift that transformed the planet nearly 34 million years ago. (more…)
Top Stories - Apr 12, 2013 10:42 - 11 Comments
Ape-like human ancestor stirs debate
BOSTON U. / DUKE (US) — New analysis of a pair of 1.98 million year old fossil proto-humans discovered in a South African cave in 2008 has yielded surprising insights into human evolution. (more…)
Top Stories - Apr 1, 2013 9:17 - 0 Comments
Turning into fossils distorted dino plumage
YALE (US) — Experiments suggest that fossil birds and dinosaurs may have had different colored feathers than scientists thought. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 26, 2013 8:14 - 0 Comments
Holey skulls hint at early human inbreeding
WASHINGTON U. – ST. LOUIS — Skulls with telltale signs of inbreeding raise new questions about early human culture and population stability, researchers say. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 15, 2013 12:13 - 3 Comments
Saber-tooth cat was a Florida native
U. FLORIDA (US) — A new genus and species of saber-toothed cat may be a missing link to and direct ancestor of Smilodon, a cat that went extinct about 11,000 years ago. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 14, 2013 13:36 - 4 Comments
Burgess Shale yields wormy ‘missing link’
U. TORONTO (CAN) — The discovery of a strange ancient worm sets the fossil record back 200 million years for a group of creatures known as enteropneusts. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 11, 2013 10:41 - 0 Comments
Fossils of ‘alligator-like’ animals found in Panama
U. FLORIDA (US) — Paleontologists have found remarkably well-preserved fossils of two crocodilians and a hippo-like mammal during recent excavations in the Panama Canal. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 6, 2013 16:43 - 0 Comments
‘Horsey’ teeth evolved in forest, not grassland
U. WASHINGTON (US) — Some prehistoric mammals got their big chompers from the gritty dust and volcanish ash in their food, new research suggests. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 13, 2013 13:09 - 0 Comments
Ice age extinctions led to hardier plants
U. MELBOURNE (AUS) — When it comes to biodiversity, extinctions have a bigger impact than evolution, say researchers who looked at Australian plant species wiped out by the ice ages. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 29, 2013 14:49 - 1 Comment
Fossils hold evidence of sexual selection
U. SOUTHAMPTON (UK) — Comparisons with living animals make it possible for scientists to detect sexual selection among creatures in the fossil record, say researchers. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 29, 2013 14:26 - 0 Comments
Crater ridges suggest water flowed on Mars
BROWN (US) — Ridges in impact craters on Mars may be fossils of cracks through which water once flowed, scientists report. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jan 22, 2013 11:41 - 0 Comments
Big climate picture from tiny marine fossils
CARDIFF U. (UK) — Researchers are studying a unique 12,000-year fossil record of marine algae to learn more about past climate change in the western Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest warming regions on the planet today. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 13, 2012 12:09 - 2 Comments
Are these key fossils from land or lagoon?
U. OREGON (US) — Ancient fossils, which scientists have considered ancestors of early marine life, are instead remnants of land-dwelling lichen or other microbial colonies, a geologist proposes. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 11, 2012 9:57 - 3 Comments
Only lightweight lizards survived killer asteroid
YALE (US) — The asteroid collision widely thought to have killed the dinosaurs also caused extreme devastation among snakes and lizards, including the newly identified Obamadon gracilis. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 10, 2012 15:21 - 0 Comments
New clues to Darwin’s ‘abominable mystery’
INDIANA U. (US) — Scientists offer a more detailed explanation for the sudden appearance and rapid spread of flowering plants in the fossil record—what Charles Darwin famously called “an abominable mystery.” (more…)
