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Cereal, Olive and Vine Pollen Reveal Market Integration in Ancient Greece

Nov. 30, 2020 — By analyzing sediment cores taken from six sites in southern Greece, an international team of researchers identified trends in cereal, olive, and vine pollen indicating structural changes in ...

Only Dinosaurs Found in Ireland Described for the First Time

Nov. 24, 2020 — The only dinosaur bones ever found on the island of Ireland have been formally confirmed for the first time by a team of experts. The two fossils are from two different dinosaurs, a four-legged ...

T. Rex Had Huge Growth Spurts, but Other Dinos Grew Slow and Steady

Nov. 24, 2020 — By cutting into dinosaur bones and analyzing the growth lines, a team of researchers discovered that T. rex and its closest relatives got big thanks to a huge growth spurt in adolescence, while its ...

True Origin of Oldest Evidence of Animals

Nov. 23, 2020 — Scientists have resolved a longstanding controversy surrounding the origins of complex life on Earth. The studies found molecular fossils extracted from 635-million-year-old rocks aren't the earliest ...

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How Ancient Fish May Have Prepared for Life on Land

Nov. 23, 2020 — A new study adds another layer to the remarkable evolutionary transition of life from water to land on Earth. The international study of the prehistoric 'relic' tetrapods, including salamander and ...

Identical Evolution of Isolated Organisms

Nov. 23, 2020 — Palaeontologists have provided new proof of parallel evolution: conodonts, early vertebrates from the Permian period, adapted to new habitats in almost identical ways despite living in different ...

New Analysis Refutes Claim That Dinosaurs Were in Decline Before Asteroid Hit

Nov. 17, 2020 — New research suggests that dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit. The study contradicts previous theories and concludes that had the ...

Prehistoric Shark Hid Its Largest Teeth

Nov. 18, 2020 — Some, if not all, early sharks that lived 300 to 400 million years ago not only dropped their lower jaws downward but rotated them outwards when opening their mouths. This enabled them to make the ...

Paleontologists Uncover Three New Species of Extinct Walruses in Orange County, California

Nov. 16, 2020 — Millions of years ago, in the warm Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California, walrus species without tusks lived abundantly. But in a new ...

Study Reconstructs Ancient Storms to Help Predict Changes in Tropical Cyclone Hotspot

Nov. 16, 2020 — New research reveals that tropical cyclones were actually more frequent in the southern Marshall Islands during the Little Ice Age, when temperatures ...

Genetic Code Evolution and Darwin's Evolution Theory Should Consider DNA an 'Energy Code'

Nov. 16, 2020 — Darwin's theory of evolution should be expanded to include consideration of a DNA stability 'energy code' -- so-called 'molecular Darwinism' -- to ...

New Fossil Seal Species Rewrites History

Nov. 10, 2020 — An international team of biologists has discovered a new species of extinct monk seal from the Southern Hemisphere -- describing it as the biggest breakthrough in seal evolution in 70 ...

Fossil Shark Turns Into Mystery Pterosaur

Nov. 10, 2020 — Scientists have discovered the mystery creature amongst fossil collections housed in the Sedgwick Museum of Cambridge and the Booth Museum at Brighton that were assembled when phosphate mining was at ...

Fossil Feces Hows Fishy Lunches from 200 Million Years Ago

Nov. 9, 2020 — A new study of coprolites, fossil feces, shows the detail of food webs in the ancient shallow seas around Bristol in south-west England. One hungry fish ate part of the head of another fish before ...