News articles tagged with 'fossil' (Page 34)
Climate change reduces bat numbers in Queensland
— 9 Jul 2007 22:15 | EnvironmentA central eastern Queensland mine has turned up bat fossils which show climate change has had a negative impact on the state's bat population. Queensland University of Technology (QUT)…
The first rainforest of our planet unearthed
— 23 Apr 2007 05:30 | Geology and palaeontologyA spectacular fossilised forest has transformed our understanding of the ecology of the Earths first rainforests. It is 300 million years old. The forest is composed of a bizarre mixture…
Fossilised trees mystery solved
— 18 Apr 2007 19:25 | Geology and palaeontologyAn international research team from the Cardiff University, Binghamton University, New York and from New York State Museum has found evidence of the Earths earliest forest trees, dating…
Fossil discovery marks earliest record of limbloss in ancient lizard
— 22 Mar 2007 20:22 | Geology and palaeontologyA University of Alberta palaeontologist has helped discover the existence of a 95 million-year-old snakelike marine animal, a finding that provides not only the earliest example of…
New mammal from Mesozoic Era discovered
— 15 Mar 2007 02:52 | Geology and palaeontologyAn international team of American and Chinese palaeontologists has discovered a new species of mammal that lived 125 million years ago during the Mesozoic Era, in what is now the Hebei…
Caribbean extinctions occurred 2M years after apparent cause
— 12 Mar 2007 23:17 | Geology and palaeontologySmithsonian scientists and colleagues report a new study that may shake up the way palaeontologists think about how environmental change shapes life on Earth. The researchers summarised…