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Greening of the Earth Pushed Way Back in Time
July 22, 2013 — Conventional scientific wisdom has it that plants and other creatures have only lived on land for about 500 million years, but a new study is pointing to evidence for life on land that is four times ... > full story -
From Obscurity to Dominance: Tracking the Rapid Evolutionary Rise of Ray-Finned Fish
July 22, 2013 — Mass extinctions, like lotteries, result in a multitude of losers and a few lucky winners. This is the story of one of the winners, a small, shell-crushing predatory fish called Fouldenia, which ... > full story -
King David's Palace? New Archaeological Evidence Uncovered in Judean Shephelah
July 21, 2013 — Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe may be King David's Palace in the Judean Shephelah. Royal storerooms were also revealed in the joint archaeological excavation of the Hebrew University ... > full story -
Common Stem Cell in Heart and Lung Development Explains Adaption for Life on Land
July 21, 2013 — Biologists have known that the co-development of the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems is a recent evolutionary adaption to life outside of water. Researchers show that the pulmonary vasculature ... > full story -
Ancient Ice Melt Unearthed in Antarctic Mud: 20-Meter Sea Level Rise, Five Million Years Ago
July 21, 2013 — Global warming five million years ago may have caused parts of Antarctica's large ice sheets to melt and sea levels to rise by approximately 20 meters, scientists ... > full story -
Lizards Show Evolution Is Predictable
July 19, 2013 — If you could hit the reset button on evolution and start over, would essentially the same species appear? Yes, according to a study of Caribbean ... > full story -
Tuberculosis Genomes Recovered from 200-Year-Old Hungarian Mummy
July 19, 2013 — Researchers have recovered tuberculosis (TB) genomes from the lung tissue of a 215-year old mummy using a technique known as ... > full story -
Microbes Can Influence Evolution of Their Hosts
July 18, 2013 — Contrary to current scientific understanding, it appears that our microbial companions play an important role in their hosts' evolution. A new study provides the first direct evidence that these ... > full story -
Ice Age Figurine's Head Found: Archaeologists Put New and Old Finds Together to Reassemble Ancient Work of Art
July 18, 2013 — Researchers have successfully re-attached the newly discovered head of a prehistoric mammoth-ivory figurine discovered in 1931. The head was found during renewed excavations at Vogelherd Cave, site ... > full story -
New Evidence for Warm-Blooded Dinosaurs
July 17, 2013 — A scientist in Australia has shown new evidence that dinosaurs were warm-blooded like birds and mammals, not cold-blooded like reptiles as commonly believed. The researchers argues that cold-blooded ... > full story
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