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Conceptualizing Cancer Cells as Ancient 'Toolkit'
February 7, 2011 — In a new paper, astrobiology researchers seek to explain why cancer cells deploy so many clever tricks in such a coherent and organized ... > full story -
Unexpected Exoskeleton Remnants Found in Paleozoic Fossils
February 7, 2011 — Surprising new research shows that, contrary to conventional belief, remains of chitin-protein complex -- structural materials containing protein and polysaccharide -- are present in abundance in ... > full story -
Rare Insect Fossil Reveals 100 Million Years of Evolutionary Stasis
February 3, 2011 — Researchers have discovered the 100 million-year-old ancestor of a group of large, carnivorous, cricket-like insects that still live today in southern Asia, northern Indochina and Africa. The new ... > full story -
Newly Discovered Dinosaur Likely Father of Triceratops
January 31, 2011 — Triceratops and Torosaurus have long been considered the kings of the horned dinosaurs. But a new discovery traces the giants' family tree further back in time, when a newly discovered species called ... > full story -
Dinosaurs Survived Mass Extinction by 700,000 Years, Fossil Find Suggests
January 27, 2011 — Researchers have determined that a fossilized dinosaur bone found in New Mexico confounds the long established paradigm that the age of dinosaurs ended between 65.5 and 66 million years ... > full story -
Mass Extinction Linked to Ancient Climate Change, New Details Reveal
January 27, 2011 — About 450 million years ago, Earth suffered the second-largest mass extinction in its history -- the Late Ordovician mass extinction, during which more than 75 percent of marine species died. Exactly ... > full story -
Ancient Body Clock Discovered That Helps Keep All Living Things on Time
January 26, 2011 — The mechanism that controls the internal 24-hour clock of all forms of life from human cells to algae has been identified by ... > full story -
First Single-Fingered Dinosaur Discovered
January 24, 2011 — A new species of parrot-sized dinosaur, the first discovered with only one finger, has been unearthed in Inner Mongolia, ... > full story -
How to Tell a Pterodactyl's Sex: Dino-Era Riddle Solved by New Fossil Find
January 20, 2011 — Killed and preserved with her egg, a fossil of a flying reptile shows for the first time how hips and crests can be used to sex ... > full story -
Putting the Dead to Work: Conservation Paleobiologists Dig Deep to Solve Today's Ecological, Evolutionary Questions
January 14, 2011 — Conservation paleobiologists -- scientists who use the fossil record to understand the evolutionary and ecological responses of present-day species to changes in their environment -- are putting the ... > full story
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