Evolution
Sep 6, 2022
Dental evidence challenges origin time of mammals
New research published in the Journal of Anatomy has used dental evidence to challenge the origin time of mammals.
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Biotechnology
Aug 29, 2022
High-tech tools reveal opalized fossil skeleton
Paleontologists from Flinders University are using a micro-CT scanner and 3D printing to reconstruct a small dinosaur preserved as opal for more than 100 million years in white sandstone rocks.
Ecology
Aug 26, 2022
Nugget the cow: Seaweed-munching bovine chews on solution to methane problem
With a nose painted dark walnut, Nugget's body is the color of a lightly toasted marshmallow. Her hair is soft when brushed one way, coarse when brushed the other. Weighing a queen-size 1,200 pounds, she likes to retreat ...
Biotechnology
Aug 24, 2022
Radiology sheds light on ancient fish species coelacanth
An after-hours trip to Aarhus University Hospital Skejby's radiology department has shed light on a mysterious and ancient fish, one that remains one of the world's rarest—the Coelacanth. Researchers from the University ...
Archaeology
Aug 11, 2022
Old age isn't a modern phenomenon: Many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too
Every year I ask the college students in the course I teach about the 14th-century Black Death to imagine they are farmers or nuns or nobles in the Middle Ages. What would their lives have been like in the face of this terrifying ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 10, 2022
Using fish ear bones to estimate ancient seawater temperature
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have identified a way to estimate ancient seawater temperature by probing tiny bones in the ears of fish.
Paleontology & Fossils
Aug 8, 2022
Rotting fish help solve mystery of how soft tissue fossils form
New research at the University of Leicester has transformed scientists' understanding of how spectacular fossils with delicate soft tissues form.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 21, 2022
New analyses of giant fossilized megalodon teeth are helping scientists unravel the mystery of their extinction
Millions of years ago, giant sharks three times larger than today's great whites stalked the world's ocean. They're long gone now, but occasionally, someone walking on a beach spots an odd triangular shape in the sand. On ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 6, 2022
New research challenges long-held beliefs about limb regeneration
Ken Muneoka is no stranger to disrupting the field of regeneration; for example, in a 2019 ground-breaking publication in Nature, the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS) professor ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 1, 2022
Scientists decipher, catalog the diverse origins of Earth's minerals
A 15-year study led by the Carnegie Institution for Science details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth, a landmark body of work that will help reconstruct the history of life on Earth, guide the search ...
