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94-Million-Year-Old Mosasaur Fossil Discovered in Southern Utah

Dr. Barry Albright, a faculty member at the University of North Florida, has participated in a research project led by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which has resulted in the discovery of a 94-million-year-old mosasaur in the gray shale badlands of the Glen...

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

The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London, in collaboration with the University of Arizona (UoA), has solved a century-old debate about how arthropod brains evolved over the course of more than 500 million years. The study, published in Science, was...

Research reveals unprecedented levels of plant-damaging insects

According to new research led by University of Wyoming scientists, insects are causing unprecedented levels of damage to plants today. The study is the first of its kind, comparing insect herbivore damage to modern-era plants with that of fossilised leaves dating back to the Late...

New fossil galaxy discovery could answer important questions about the history of the universe

A new fossil galaxy discovered through a systematic visual search of legacy survey images with the Mayall 4-meter telescope led by Dr. David Martinez Delgado could teach scientists about the formation of galaxies and confirm their understanding of cosmology and dark matter. According to Dr....

Maidenhair trees survived Hiroshima bomb

A "living fossil" is any organism that appeared millions of years ago. That fossil survives today and it is relatively unchanged. The maidenhair tree or Ginkgo biloba, ticks all the boxes of this definition. It is well known in China and Japan. It has special...

Fossils of sauropodomorph ancestor show it walked upright

University of Bristol researchers have found evidence that an early ancestor of the giant sauropodomorph dinosaurs had walked upright. It was also quick and agile. The research paper has been published in the journal Royal Society Open Science. Scientists described their study of Thecodontosaurus...