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Pareiasaur: Bumpy Beast Was a Desert Dweller
June 24, 2013 — During the Permian era, animal and plant life were dispersed broadly across Pangea, and a new study supports the idea that there was an isolated desert in the middle of Pangea with its own fauna. ... > full story -
Oddest Couple Share 250-Million-Year-Old Burrow
June 22, 2013 — Scientists have discovered a world-first association while scanning a 250-million-year-old fossilized burrow from the Karoo Basin of South Africa. The burrow revealed two unrelated vertebrate animals ... > full story -
Snail Trail Reveals Ancient Human Migration
June 20, 2013 — Geneticists have used snails to uncover evidence of an ancient human migration from the Pyrenean region of France to ... > full storyMore: -
Scientists Date Prehistoric Bacterial Invasion Still Present in Today's Plant and Animal Cells
June 19, 2013 — How long ago did bacteria invade the one-celled ancestors of plants and animals to become energy-producing mitochondria and photosynthesizing chloroplasts? Researchers developed a statistical way to ... > full story -
Scientists Use DNA from a Museum Specimen to Study Rarely Observed Type of Killer Whale
June 19, 2013 — Researchers report using DNA from tissues samples collected in 1955 to study what may be a new type of killer whale (Orcinus ... > full story -
Putting Flesh on the Bones of Ancient Fish: Synchrotron X-Rays Reconstruct Soft Tissue on 380-Million-Year-Old Fish
June 13, 2013 — Scientists present for the first time miraculously preserved musculature of 380 million year old armored fish discovered in north-west Australia. This research will help scientists to better ... > full story -
Medieval Leprosy Genomes Shed Light on Disease's History
June 13, 2013 — Scientists have reconstructed a dozen medieval and modern leprosy genomes -- suggesting a European origin for the North American leprosy strains found in armadillos and humans, and a common ancestor ... > full story -
Fossil Kangaroo Teeth Reveal Mosaic of Pliocene Ecosystems in Queensland
June 12, 2013 — The teeth of a kangaroo and other extinct marsupials reveal that southeastern Queensland 2.5-5-million-years ago was a mosaic of tropical forests, wetlands and grasslands and much less arid than ... > full story -
High Diversity of Flying Reptiles in England 110 Million Years Ago
June 12, 2013 — Pterosaurs are an extinct group of flying reptiles that are only abundant in very few deposits. One of these is situated in England, where hundreds of fossils of these animals, that covered the skies ... > full story -
X-Rays Reveal New Picture of 'Dinobird' Plumage Patterns
June 11, 2013 — The first complete chemical analysis of feathers from Archaeopteryx, a famous fossil linking dinosaurs and birds, reveals that the feathers of this early bird were patterned -- light in colour, with ... > full story
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