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Fossil study reveals oldest-known evolutionary ‘arms race’

PALEONTOLOGY
A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary...

New study reconstructs the skull of ancient Cretan hippo

PALEONTOLOGY
A study by researchers Nikolaos Gerakakis and Prof. Dimitrios Makris has successfully reconstructed the skull of an extinct dwarf hippopotamus that once roamed the...

The moon might be older than scientists previously thought; a new study shines light on its history

ASTRONOMY
A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case,...

Climate change could trigger more earthquakes, study suggests

CLIMATE
A recent Colorado State University study published in the journal Geology demonstrates that climate change can affect the frequency of earthquakes, adding to a...

New study says we’re unlikely to find liquid water on Mars anytime soon

MARS
More than a hundred years ago, astronomer Percival Lowell made the case for the existence of canals on Mars designed to redistribute water from...

Mountain permafrost is warming across Europe, study shows

Uncategorized
Permafrost temperatures in Europe's mountain regions are rising steadily, in some cases by more than 1°C over the last decade. The results of a...

Minerals in hot springs performed a key chemical reaction for early life on Earth, new study confirms

MINERALS
One of the biggest scientific mysteries is where life on Earth started. Research has often focused on the role of deep-sea hydrothermal vents—those towering structures...

Each glacier has a unique organic matter composition, study reveals

OCEANOGRAPHY
Melting glaciers release more than just water. Organic matter once trapped in ice can run into streams and rivers, where it becomes food for...

Study determines when and how pterosaurs went from tiny tree-climbers to towering terrestrial titans

PALEONTOLOGY
The evolutionary adaptations that allowed ancient pterosaurs to grow to enormous sizes have been pinpointed for the first time by paleontologists in the Center...

Study uncovers first evidence of a volcanic spatter cone on Mars

MARS
While working under Erika Rader, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences at University of Idaho, a postdoctoral researcher identified...

Study shows that ancient reef-building stromatoporoids dodged extinction—at least temporarily

PALEONTOLOGY
Will modern coral reefs go extinct? The answer is uncertain, but some of their ancient counterparts managed to dodge a bullet—for a while, at...

Complex life on Earth began around 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought, new study claims

EARTH
Environmental evidence of the very first experiments in the evolution of complex life on Earth, has been uncovered by an international team of scientists. Until...
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