Fresh analysis of a reptile fossil is helping scientists solve an evolutionary puzzle — how snakes lost their limbs. The findings show snakes did not lose their limbs in order …read more Source:: Science
Day: November 28, 2015
Soil pulled from deep under Oregon’s unglaciated Coast Range unveils frosty past climate
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•Lush greenery rich in Douglas fir and hemlock trees covers the Triangle Lake valley of the Oregon Coast Range. Today, however, geologists are more focused on sediment samples dating back …read more Source:: Science
Earth’s first ecosystems were more complex than previously thought, study finds
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•Computer simulations have allowed scientists to work out how a puzzling 555-million-year-old organism with no known modern relatives fed, revealing that some of the first large, complex organisms on Earth …read more Source:: Science