News articles tagged with 'fossil'
Ancient environment found to drive marine biodiversity
— 25 Nov 2011 09:00 | Geology and palaeontologyMuch of our knowledge about past life has come from the fossil record - but how accurately does that reflect the true history and drivers of biodiversity on Earth?…
Human, artificial intelligence join forces to pinpoint fossil locations
— 22 Nov 2011 16:59 | Geology and palaeontologyIn 1991, a team led by Washington University in St. Louis palaeoanthropologist Glenn Conroy, PhD, discovered the fossils of the first - and still the only - known pre-human ape ever…
Did dinosaurs have lice? Researchers say it's possible
— 6 Apr 2011 15:22 | Geology and palaeontologyA new study louses up a popular theory of animal evolution and opens up the possibility that dinosaurs were early - perhaps even the first - animal hosts of lice…
Fossil is best look yet at an ancestor of buttercups
— 1 Apr 2011 15:54 | Geology and palaeontologyScientists from the United States and China have discovered the first intact fossil of a mature eudicot, a type of flowering plant whose membership includes buttercups, apple trees,…
Long lost cousin of T. rex identified by scientists
— 1 Apr 2011 14:39 | Geology and palaeontologyScientists have identified a new species of gigantic theropod dinosaur, a close relative of T. rex, from fossil skull and jaw bones discovered in China…
Researchers reveal remarkable fossil
— 28 Mar 2011 14:52 | Geology and palaeontologyResearchers from China, Leicester and Oxford have discovered a remarkable fossil which sheds new light on an important group of primitive sea creatures…
Uncertain future for Joshua trees projected with climate change
— 28 Mar 2011 14:27 | EnvironmentTemperature increases resulting from climate change in the Southwest will likely eliminate Joshua trees from 90 percent of their current range in 60 to 90 years, according to a new…
Palaeontologists audition modern examples of ancient behaviour
— 17 Mar 2011 17:29 | Geology and palaeontologyPalaeontologists agree that it's difficult to observe behaviour in fossil specimens that are dead - even extinct - and petrified. One method is to find a modern, living, species that…
Fossil bird study describes ripple effect of extinction in animal kingdom
— 8 Mar 2011 14:08 | Geology and palaeontologyA University of Florida study demonstrates extinction's ripple effect through the animal kingdom, including how the demise of large mammals 20,000 years ago led to the disappearance…
Earth's sixth mass extinction: Is it almost here?
— 4 Mar 2011 15:06 | EnvironmentWith the steep decline in populations of many animal species, scientists have warned that Earth is on the brink of a mass extinction like those that have occurred just five times during…