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High Tooth Replacement Rates in Largest Dinosaurs Contributed to Their Evolutionary Success
July 17, 2013 — Rapid tooth replacement by sauropods, the largest dinosaurs in the fossil record, likely contributed to their evolutionary success, according to a new article. The study also hypothesizes that ... > full story -
Discovery of Stone Monument Adds New Chapter to Ancient Maya History: New World 'Cleopatra Story' Waits 1,000 Years to Be Retold
July 17, 2013 — Archaeologists tunneling beneath the main temple of the ancient Maya city of El Perú-Waka’ in Guatemala have discovered a stone monument with hieroglyphic text detailing the exploits of ... > full story -
Big-Nosed, Long-Horned Dinosaur Discovered in Utah: Dinosaur in Same Family as Triceratops
July 17, 2013 — A remarkable new species of horned dinosaur has been unearthed in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. The huge plant-eater inhabited Laramidia, a landmass formed when a ... > full story -
Family Tree of Fish Yields Surprises
July 17, 2013 — The mighty tuna is more closely related to the dainty seahorse than to a marlin or sailfish. That is one of the surprises from the first comprehensive family tree, or phylogeny, of the "spiny-rayed ... > full story -
Rare Fossil of Late Cretaceous Plesiosaur Discovered
July 16, 2013 — Researchers have discovered the fossilized remains of an elasmosaur. A subgroup of the late Cretaceous plesiosaurs, the elasmosaurid plesiosaurs are recognized by their large body size and shape. ... > full story -
Tooth Is 'Smoking Gun' Evidence That Tyrannosaurus Rex Was Hunter, Killer
July 16, 2013 — Tyrannosaurus rex has long been popular with kids and moviemakers as the most notorious, vicious killing machine to roam the planet during the age of the dinosaurs. So, it may come as a shock that ... > full story -
Manure Used by Europe's First Farmers 8,000 Years Ago
July 16, 2013 — A new study says Europe's first farmers used far more sophisticated practices than was previously thought. Scientists have found that Neolithic farmers manured and watered their crops as early as ... > full story -
Great Exaptations: Most Traits Emerge for No Crucial Reason, Scientists Find
July 15, 2013 — By simulating changes in an organism's metabolism, scientists have now shown that most traits may emerge as non-crucial "exaptations" rather than as selection-advantageous ... > full story -
Scientists Solve a 14,000-Year-Old Ocean Mystery
July 14, 2013 — At the end of the last Ice Age, as the world began to warm, a swath of the North Pacific Ocean came to life. During a brief pulse of biological productivity 14,000 years ago, this stretch of the sea ... > full story -
Boldly Illuminating Biology's 'Dark Matter'
July 14, 2013 — Microbial dark matter comprises the invisible infrastructure of life that can have profound influences on the most significant environmental processes. By employing next generation DNA sequencing of ... > full story
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