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'Zombie' Worms Found in Mediterranean Fossil
November 1, 2011 — Traces of bizarre, bone-eating 'zombie' worms have been found on a 3-million-year-old fossil whale bone from Tuscany in Italy. It is the first time the genus Osedax has been found in the ... > full story -
Prehistoric Greenhouse Data from Ocean Floor Could Predict Earth's Future, Study Finds
October 27, 2011 — New research indicates that Atlantic Ocean temperatures during the greenhouse climate of the Late Cretaceous Epoch were influenced by circulation in the deep ocean. These changes in circulation ... > full story -
Researchers Complete Mollusk Evolutionary Tree
October 26, 2011 — Researchers have compiled the most comprehensive evolutionary tree for mollusks to date. Their analysis surprisingly places two enigmatic groups, cephalopods and monoplacophorans, as sister clades. ... > full story -
Land Animals, Ecosystems Walloped After Permian Dieoff
October 25, 2011 — Researchers have concluded the mass extinction that ended the Permian Period was disastrous for land-based animals. In a specimen-by-specimen analysis, the scientists say species were reduced to a ... > full story -
First North American Hunters 1,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, Speared Mastodon Fossil Shows
October 20, 2011 — A new and astonishing chapter has been added to North American prehistory in regards to the first hunters and their hunt for the now extinct giant mammoth-like creatures -- the mastodons. New ... > full storyMore: -
Blame Backbone Fractures on Evolution, Not Osteoporosis: Adaptation to Upright Walking Leaves Humans Susceptible
October 19, 2011 — Osteoporosis is blamed for backbone fractures. The real culprit could well be our own vertebrae, which evolved to absorb the pounding of upright walking, researchers ... > full story -
Robotic Bug Gets Wings, Sheds Light on Evolution of Flight
October 17, 2011 — When engineers outfitted a six-legged robotic bug with wings in an effort to improve its mobility, they unexpectedly shed some light on the evolution of flight. The wings nearly doubled the running ... > full storyMore: -
Super-Sized Muscle Made Twin-Horned Dinosaur a Speedster
October 14, 2011 — A meat-eating dinosaur that terrorized its plant-eating neighbors in South America was a lot deadlier than first thought, a researcher has found. Carnotaurus was a seven-meter-long predator with a ... > full story -
Tiny Fossil Fragment Reveals Giant-but-Ugly Truth: Part of Biggest-Ever Toothed Pterosaur from Dinosaur Era
October 13, 2011 — New research has identified a small fossil fragment at the Natural History Museum, London as being part of a giant pterosaur -- setting a new upper limit for the size of winged and toothed ... > full story -
T. Rex Was Bigger and Grew Faster Than Previously Thought, Computational Analysis Reveals
October 12, 2011 — A new study reveals that T. rex grew more quickly and reached significantly greater masses than previously estimated. In a departure from earlier methods, the new study uses mounted skeletons to ... > full story -
Oldest Fossil Rodents in South America Discovered; Find Is 10 Million Years Older and Confirms Animals from Africa
October 11, 2011 — An international team of researchers have found the oldest rodent fossils in South America. The find confirms the animals origin in Africa and contradicts the conclusion that they spread from south ... > full story -
Most Vertebrates -- Including Humans -- Descended from Ancestor With Sixth Sense
October 11, 2011 — A new study that caps more than 25 years of work finds that the vast majority of vertebrates -- some 30,000 species of land animals (including humans) and a roughly equal number of ray-finned fishes ... > full story
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