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New Dinosaur Species: First Fossil Evidence Shows Small Crocs Fed on Baby Dinosaurs
February 28, 2013 — A paleontologist and his team have discovered a new species of herbivorous dinosaur and published the first fossil evidence of prehistoric crocodyliforms feeding on small ... > full story -
Reducing Numbers of One Carnivore Species Indirectly Leads to Extinction of Others
February 28, 2013 — Previous studies have shown that carnivores can have indirect positive effects on each other, which means that when one species is lost, others could soon follow. Biologists have now found that ... > full story -
Giant Cockroach Genus Pseudophoraspis Expands to the North With 3 New Species
February 28, 2013 — Three new species of the giant cockroach genus Pseudophoraspis have been discovered in the Hainan, Yunnan and Guangxi provinces of China. The three newly described cockroaches, together with another ... > full story -
Feeding Limbs and Nervous System of One of Earth's Earliest Animals Discovered
February 27, 2013 — Unique fossils literally 'lift the lid' on ancient creature's head to expose one of the earliest examples of food manipulating limbs in evolutionary history, dating from around 530 million years ... > full story -
Evolution and the Ice Age
February 26, 2013 — Scientists are discovering how the evolution of ecosystems has to be taken into account when speculating between different geological eras. Go back to the time of the dinosaurs or to the ... > full story -
Wasp Transcriptome Creates a Buzz
February 25, 2013 — New research delivers a sting in the tail for queen wasps. Scientists have sequenced the active parts of the genome – or transcriptome – of primitively eusocial wasps to identify ... > full story -
Jurassic Records Warn of Risk to Marine Life from Global Warming
February 19, 2013 — The risk posed by global warming and rising ocean temperatures to the future health of the world's marine ecosystem has been highlighted by scientists studying fossil ... > full story -
How the Whale Got Its Teeth: Scientists Explore Development of Unique Dentition of 'Toothed Whales'
February 19, 2013 — Whales are mammals, but they don't look like the mammals living around us, as they have a triangular fluke for tail, no hind legs and no body hair. And inside their mouths, their teeth are unfamiliar ... > full story -
Ancient Fossilized Sea Creatures Yield Oldest Biomolecules Isolated Directly from a Fossil
February 18, 2013 — Though scientists have long believed that complex organic molecules couldn’t survive fossilization, some 350-million-year-old remains of aquatic sea creatures uncovered in Ohio, Indiana, and ... > full story -
Reduced Sea Ice Disturbs Balance of Greenhouse Gases
February 18, 2013 — The widespread reduction in Arctic sea ice is causing significant changes to the balance of greenhouse gases in the ... > full story
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