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Earth’s oldest known environmental clean-up was 400 million years ago, finds fossil analysis

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Analysis of world-renowned plant fossils in north-east Scotland has revealed the oldest evidence for environmental clean-up on Earth, over 400 million years ago. The discovery...

525-million-year-old fossil defies textbook explanation for brain evolution

PALEONTOLOGY
Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago may compel a science textbook rewrite of how brains...

Rare fossil clam discovered alive

PALEONTOLOGY
Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the passage of time....

Glowing fossils: Fluorescence reveals color patterns of earliest scallops

PALEONTOLOGY
UV light makes it possible to see intricate structures of fossils that are barely visible in normal daylight. This method has often been used...

500 million year-old fossils reveal answer to evolutionary riddle

PALEONTOLOGY
The first animals to build hard and robust skeletons appear suddenly in the fossil record in a geological blink of an eye around 550-520...

Triassic specimen found to be early relative of pterosaurs a century after its discovery

PALEONTOLOGY
A new study of a tiny Triassic fossil reptile first discovered over 100 years ago in the north east of Scotland has revealed it...

Dinosaur-killing asteroid triggered global tsunami that scoured seafloor thousands of miles from impact site

PALEONTOLOGY
The miles-wide asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago wiped out nearly all the dinosaurs and roughly three-quarters of the planet's plant and...

Dinosaurs survived when CO2 was extremely high. Why can’t humans?

PALEONTOLOGY
How did plants and animals survive around 200 million years ago when the carbon dioxide concentration went up to 6,000 parts per million? Paul...

Prehistoric podiatry: How dinos carried their enormous weight

PALEONTOLOGY
Scientists have cracked an enduring mystery, discovering how sauropod dinosaurs — like Brontosaurus and Diplodocus — supported their gigantic bodies on land. A University of...

Crucial evidence explains anomalously fast convergence between India and Asia in Mesozoic

PALEONTOLOGY
Closure of the Neo-Tethys Ocean and the subsequent formation of the Tibetan Plateau is one of the most significant tectonic events on Earth. How...

Dinosaurs evolved different eye socket shapes to allow stronger bites

PALEONTOLOGY
Large dinosaur predators, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, evolved different shapes of eye sockets to better deal with high bite forces, new research has shown. While...

Fossils of giant sea lizard that ruled the oceans 66 million years ago discovered

PALEONTOLOGY
Researchers have discovered a huge new mosasaur from Morocco, named Thalassotitan atrox, which filled the apex predator niche. With massive jaws and teeth like...
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