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Scientists find gold-plated fossil solution
An international team of scientists in the University of Leicester's Department of Geology has found a solution to a research problem involving fossils right next door - in the University's Chemistry Department. View More (2012-05-23)
Molecular fossils uncover link between viruses and the immune system
Researchers from the Viikki Biocenter, University of Helsinki, show that atomic structures can reveal evolutionary history of viruses in a similar fashion as fossils did for the dinosaurs and reptiles. Their article is published in the April 15 issue of Molecular Cell. View More (2005-04-14)
Redating of the latest Neandertals in Europe
Two Neantertal fossils excavated from Vindija Cave in Croatia in 1998, believed to be the last surviving Neandertals, may be 3,000-4,000 years older than originally thought. View More (2006-01-06)
Inside rocks, implications for finding life on Mars
If a future space mission to Mars brings rocks back to Earth, Schopf said the techniques he has used, called confocal laser scanning microscopy and Raman spectroscopy, could enable scientists to look at microscopic fossils inside the rocks to search for signs of life, such as organic cell walls. View More (2006-02-01)
Discovery of 450 Million Years Old 'Missing Link'
A 15-year search for fossils in Africa has led to the discovery of eight fish specimens that are 450 million years old - 50 million years older than any previous fish fossil on the continent and amongst the oldest in the world. View More (2005-04-27)
Fossil discovery could be our oldest human ancestor
Researchers have confirmed the age of possibly our oldest direct human ancestor at 1.98 million years old. View More (2011-09-09)
Cretaceous octopus with ink and suckers -- the world's least likely fossils?
New finds of 95 million year old fossils reveal much earlier origins of modern octopuses. These are among the rarest and unlikeliest of fossils. The chances of an octopus corpse surviving long enough to be fossilized are so small that prior to this discovery only a single fossil species was known, and from fewer specimens than octopuses have legs. View More (2009-03-17)
Oldest animal fossils may have been bacteria
The oldest-known animal eggs and embryos, whose first pictures made the cover of Nature in 1998, were so small they looked like bugs - which, it now appears, they may have been. View More (2006-12-21)
Closing the gap between fish and land animals
New exquisitely preserved fossils from Latvia cast light on a key event in our own evolutionary history, when our ancestors left the water and ventured onto land. View More (2008-06-26)
Modern humans emerged far earlier than previously thought
An international team of researchers, including a physical anthropology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, has discovered well-dated human fossils in southern China that markedly change anthropologists perceptions of the emergence of modern humans in the eastern Old World. View More (2010-10-26)
EARLY HOMINOIDS MAY HAVE SUFFERED DEATH BY VOLCANO
Geological re-evaluation of deposits in which fossils of the human precursor Proconsul have long been found suggests that they lived in a semi-arid environment close to a then-active volcano (Kisingiri). Moreover the abundant hominoid fossils may represent "death assemblages" - whole populations wiped out simultaneously by "glowing cloud" eruptions. View More (1999-04-28)
Unexpected exoskeleton remnants found in Paleozoic fossils
Surprising new research shows that, contrary to conventional belief, remains of chitin-protein complex-structural materials containing protein and polysaccharide-are present in abundance in fossils of arthropods from the Paleozoic era. Previously the oldest molecular signature of chitin-protein complex was discovered in 25 million year old Cenozoic fossils and remnants of structural protein have... View More (2011-02-08)
Earliest known fossil fish discovered in China
Professor Simon Conway Morris, of the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, and Professor Degan Shu, of Northwest University, in Xi'an, China, have been analysing the fossils, along with eight other scientists from China. View More (1999-11-02)
New Study Finds Link between Marine Algae and Whale Diversity over Time
A new paper by researchers at George Mason University and the University of Otago in New Zealand shows a strong link between the diversity of organisms at the bottom of the food chain and the diversity of mammals at the top. View More (2010-02-22)
Scientists find 95-million-year-old pterosaur fossil in Morocco
With the help of ancient fossils unearthed in the Sahara desert, scientists have identified a new type of pterosaur (giant flying reptile or pterodactyl) that existed about 95 million years ago. View More (2010-05-27)
U Alberta researcher identifies 4 dinosaur species
Just when dinosaur researchers thought they had a thorough knowledge of ankylosaurs, a family of squat, armour plated, plant eaters, along comes University of Alberta graduate student, Victoria Arbour. View More (2013-05-09)
Emory Researcher Finds Crayfish Fossils Provide Missing Evolutionary Link
Crayfish body fossils and burrows discovered in Victoria, Australia, have provided the first physical evidence that crayfish existed on the continent as far back as the Mesozoic Era, says Emory University paleontologist Anthony Martin, who headed up a study on the finds. View More (2008-02-07)
MSU, Mongolian paleontologists find 67 dinosaurs in one week
One recent week in the Gobi Desert produced 67 dinosaur skeletons for a team of paleontologists from Montana and Mongolia who want to flesh out the developmental biology of dinosaurs. View More (2006-09-15)
Reconstruction the brain morphology of Homo Liujiang cranium fossil by 3-D CT
hominin fossils are the most important materials to explore human origins and evolution. Since most hominin fossils are incomplete, or filled with a heavy calcified matrix, it is difficult or often impossible to reconstruct the endocast in a real fossil without destroying it. View More (2008-07-16)
New coelacanth find rewrites history of the ancient fish
Coelacanths, an ancient group of fishes once thought to be long extinct, made headlines in 1938 when one of their modern relatives was caught off the coast of South Africa. Now coelacanths are making another splash and University of Alberta researchers are responsible. View More (2012-05-03)
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