Because of poor dates for land fossils laid down before and after the mass extinction at the end of the Permian, paleontologists assumed that the terrestrial extinctions from Gondwana occurred …read more Source:: Science
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Fossil is the oldest-known scorpion
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•Scientists studying fossils collected 35 years ago have identified them as the oldest-known scorpion species, a prehistoric animal from about 437 million years ago. The researchers found that the animal …read more Source:: Science
NASA’s Mars 2020 will hunt for microscopic fossils
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•Scientists with NASA’s Mars 2020 rover have discovered what may be one of the best places to look for signs of ancient life in Jezero Crater, where the rover will …read more Source:: Science
Ancient animal species: Fossils dating back 550 million years among first animal trails
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•A geoscientist calls the unearthed fossils, including the bodies and trails left by an ancient animal species, the most convincing sign of ancient animal mobility, dating back about 550 million …read more Source:: Science
Extinct vegetarian cave bear diet mystery unravelled
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•Until now, very little is known about the dietary evolution of the cave bear and how it became a vegetarian, as the fossils of the direct ancestor, the Deninger’s bear …read more Source:: Science
Amber fossils provide oldest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests
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•99-million-year-old amber fossils from Myanmar provide the earliest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests. …read more Source:: Science
New Eocene fossil data suggest climate models may underestimate future polar warming
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•A new international analysis of marine fossils shows that warming of the polar oceans during the Eocene, a greenhouse period that provides a glimpse of Earth’s potential future climate, was …read more Source:: Science
Finger and toe fossils belonged to tiny primates 45 million years ago
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•A new study identifies nearly 500 minuscule finger and toe bones as belonging to 45-million-year-old tiny primates. Many of the fossils are so small they rival the diminutive size of …read more Source:: Science
Endangered Australasian marsupials are ancient survivors of climate change
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•An international team of researchers has analyzed fossils and DNA from living and recently extinct species to show that conservation sensitive Australasian marsupials are much older than previously thought. …read more Source:: Science
Greenland fossils reveal global ecosystem recovery after mass extinction
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•A new study shows how higher latitude ecosystems recovered after the World’s most cataclysmic extinction event 252 million years ago. …read more Source:: Science