Posts Tagged ‘fossils’
‘Tulip’ sea creature defies definition
U. TORONTO (CAN) — A bizarre creature that lived in the ocean more than 500 million years ago has emerged from the famous Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies. Continue…
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Science & Technology - Jan 9, 2012 14:55 - 0 Comments
50-million-year-old crickets with ears
U. COLORADO-BOULDER (US) — A new study of cricket and katydid fossils suggests the insects evolved ears long before bats, their major predator, came along. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 29, 2011 11:26 - 0 Comments
Artificial ‘brain’ network hunts for fossils
WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS (US) — Artificial intelligence is giving paleontologists a leg up in locating fossils—usually a task akin to finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. (more…)
Top Stories - Nov 21, 2011 11:26 - 0 Comments
True colors of moths 47 million years ago
YALE (US) — Scientists have for the first time determined the original colors of an ancient moth, based on nearly 50 million-year-old fossils from Germany. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 17, 2011 8:04 - 0 Comments
New evidence early primate lived in trees
JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — The first ankle and toe fossils from the earliest North American primate suggest our first forerunners on the continent may have lived or moved primarily in trees, like modern lemurs. (more…)
Top Stories - Oct 12, 2011 15:10 - 0 Comments
Worms early to surface after killer asteroid
U. COLORADO-BOULDER (US) — Worms may have been among the first animals to surface after an asteroid plowed into the Gulf of Mexico 65.5 million years ago, an event linked to the demise of big dinosaurs. (more…)
Top Stories - Sep 19, 2011 10:22 - 0 Comments
Big croc shared river with 42-foot snake
U. FLORIDA (US) — A new 20-foot extinct crocodile species discovered in the same Colombian coal mine may have given Titanoboa, the world’s largest snake, a run for its money. (more…)
Top Stories - Sep 12, 2011 11:33 - 1 Comment
Virtual skull: 3D peek at hominid brain
EMORY (US) — A virtual endocast of a hominid skull that dates back nearly 2 million years raises questions about the evolution of the human brain. (more…)
Top Stories - Aug 24, 2011 9:41 - 0 Comments
Fingernails are 55 million years old
U. FLORIDA (US) — Nails on fingers and toes first appeared at the same time as a 200,000-year global warming event 55 million years ago, giving modern primates better agility and the ability to grasp. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 10, 2011 11:34 - 0 Comments
Dino footprints discovered Down Under
EMORY (US) — Polar dinosaur tracks from about 105 million years ago are offering clues into animal behavior during the last period of pronounced global warming. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jul 5, 2011 13:25 - 0 Comments
120 million-year-old bird gets an X-ray
U. PENNSYLVANIA (US) — Trace metals in fossils are offering clues about the pigmentations of creatures dead for more than a hundred million years. (more…)
Top Stories - May 27, 2011 9:37 - 0 Comments
Giants were predators of ancient deep
YALE (US) — Fossils discovered in Morocco show that a group of prehistoric sea predators grew more than a foot longer and lived for 30 million years longer than previously thought. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 20, 2011 15:01 - 0 Comments
Righties prevailed in prehistoric era
U. KANSAS (US) — A study of markings on fossilized front teeth show that right-handedness dominated as long as 500,000 years ago. (more…)
Top Stories - Apr 14, 2011 11:39 - 0 Comments
Fossils show early love of sun and sex
U. SHEFFIELD (UK) — Fossils found on remote lochs on the west coast of Scotland are illuminating the key moment in evolutionary time when life made the leap to land. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 1, 2011 12:32 - 3 Comments
Fossil hints to Earth’s first flowers
INDIANA U. (US) — A 125 million-year-old fossil of an intact eudicot, a flowering plant family that includes buttercups and dandelions, has researchers arguing for an earlier origin of the eudicots—and perhaps flowering plants in general. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 23, 2011 10:51 - 0 Comments
Like hyena, T. rex wasn’t a picky eater
UC BERKELEY (US) — A new census of all dinosaur skeletons unearthed over a large area of eastern Montana suggests the Tyrannosaurus rex would take a meal wherever it could find one—freshly killed or not. (more…)
Top Stories - Feb 16, 2011 18:35 - 0 Comments
Human fossils? Don’t discount the cousins
NYU (US) — Several prominent fossil discoveries made in the last decade identified as early humans have some anthropologists saying “not so fast.” (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 1, 2011 15:12 - 0 Comments
Move over Triceratops
YALE (US) — The discovery of a new dinosaur extends the family tree of the well-known Triceratops, long considered the king of the horned dinosaurs. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jan 28, 2011 11:35 - 0 Comments
Fossils link cooler ocean to extinction
CALTECH (US) — New evidence supports the idea that a mass extinction 450 million years ago was linked to a cooling climate. (more…)
