News articles tagged with 'ancient' (Page 2)
Fossil finger bone yields genome of a previously unknown human relative
— 4 Jan 2011 20:35 | Geology and palaeontologyA 30,000-year-old finger bone found in a cave in southern Siberia came from a young girl who was neither an early modern human nor a Neanderthal, but belonged to a previously unknown…
Scientists decipher 3 billion-year-old genomic fossils
— 19 Dec 2010 23:17 | Geology and palaeontologyAbout 580 million years ago, life on Earth began a rapid period of change called the Cambrian Explosion, a period defined by the birth of new life forms over many millions of years…
Researchers kick-start ancient DNA
— 23 Nov 2010 16:53 | BiologyBinghamton University researchers recently revived ancient bacteria trapped for thousands of years in water droplets embedded in salt crystals…
Researchers link an African lizard fossil in Africa with the Komodo dragon in Indonesia
— 19 Nov 2010 12:26 | Geology and palaeontologyUniversity of Alberta researchers have unearthed a mysterious link between bones of an ancient lizard found in Africa and the biggest, baddest modern-day lizard of them all, the Komodo…
DNA reveals origins of first European farmers
— 10 Nov 2010 14:07 | BiologyA team of international researchers led by ancient DNA experts from the University of Adelaide has resolved the longstanding issue of the origins of the people who introduced farming…
Discovery could reveal secrets of ancient Martian and terrestrial atmospheres
— 9 Nov 2010 11:40 | AstronomyChemists at UC San Diego have uncovered a new chemical reaction on tiny particulates in the atmosphere that could allow scientists to gain a glimpse from ancient rocks of what the atmospheres…
Study shows how ancient plants and soil fungi turned the Earth green
— 3 Nov 2010 11:20 | Geology and palaeontologyA new breakthrough by scientists at the University of Sheffield has shed light on how the Earth's first plants began to colonise the land over 470 million years ago by forming a partnership…
Do holes make moles?
— 3 Nov 2010 11:14 | Geology and palaeontologyThe mysterious origins of Australia's bizarre and secretive marsupial moles have been cast in a whole new and unexpected light with the first discovery in the fossil record of one of…
Ancient Colorado river flowed backwards
— 5 Oct 2010 03:16 | Geology and palaeontologyGeologists have found evidence that some 55 million years ago a river as big as the modern Colorado flowed through Arizona into Utah in the opposite direction from the present-day river.…
Parting the waters: Computer modelling applies physics to Red Sea escape route
— 22 Sep 2010 09:28 | EnvironmentThe biblical account of the parting of the Red Sea has inspired and mystified people for millennia. A new computer modelling study by researchers at the National Centre for Atmospheric…