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Did Walking On Two Feet Begin With A Shuffle?
May 30, 2008 — A pair of researchers have developed a model that suggests shuffling emerged millions of years ago as a precursor to walking on two feet as a way of saving metabolic energy by a common ancestor of ... > full story -
Giant Flying Reptiles Preferred To Walk
May 28, 2008 — New research into gigantic flying reptiles has found they weren't all gull-like predators grabbing fish from the water but that some were strongly adapted for life on the ground. Pterosaurs lived ... > full story -
Ancient Amphibian: Debate Over Origin Of Frogs And Salamanders Settled With Discovery Of Missing Link
May 21, 2008 — The description of an ancient amphibian that millions of years ago swam in quiet pools and caught mayflies on the surrounding land in Texas has set to rest one of the greatest current controversies ... > full story -
First Dinosaur Tracks Discovered On Arabian Peninsula
May 21, 2008 — The first dinosaur tracks on the Arabian Peninsula have just been discovered. Scientists found evidence of a large ornithopod dinosaur, as well as a herd of 11 sauropods walking along a Mesozoic ... > full story -
World First Discovery: Genes From Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Function In A Mouse
May 20, 2008 — Researchers have extracted genes from the extinct Tasmanian tiger, inserted it into a mouse and observed a biological function -- this is a world first for the use of the DNA of an extinct species to ... > full story -
Parrot Fossil 55 Million Years Old Discovered In Scandinavia
May 17, 2008 — Palaeontologists have discovered fossil remains in Scandinavia of parrots dating back 55 million years. The fossils indicate that parrots once flew wild over what is now Norway and Denmark. Parrots ... > full story -
Animal Interaction Behind Cambrian Explosion? 'Missing' Ancestors Of Today's Animals May Not Be Missing After All
May 8, 2008 — An event as simple as the world's first bite may have sparked an ancient "explosion" of life 500 million years ago that led to the rise of the broad groups of animals that are still alive today. A ... > full story -
Dinosaur Bones Reveal Ancient Bug Bites
May 6, 2008 — Paleontologists have long been perplexed by dinosaur fossils with missing pieces -- sets of teeth without a jaw bone, bones that are pitted and grooved, even bones that are half gone. Now a Brigham ... > full story -
Asteroid Impact 65 Million Years Ago Triggered A Global Hail Of Carbon Beads
May 5, 2008 — The asteroid presumed to have wiped out the dinosaurs struck the Earth with such force that carbon deep in the Earth's crust liquefied, rocketed skyward, and formed tiny airborne beads that blanketed ... > full story -
Sun's Movement Through Milky Way Regularly Sends Comets Hurtling, Coinciding With Mass Life Extinctions
May 2, 2008 — A new study suggests the solar system passes through the plane of the galaxy every 35 to 40 million years. The period coincides with evidence of crater impact and mass extinctions on Earth. The paper ... > full story -
Ancient Ecosystems Organized Much Like Our Own
May 1, 2008 — Similarities between half-billion-year-old and recent food webs point to deep principles underpinning the structure of ecological relationships, as shown by researchers from the Santa Fe Institute, ... > full story -
'New' Ancient Antarctic Sediment Reveals Climate Change History
April 30, 2008 — Recent additions to the premier collection of Southern Ocean sediment cores at Florida State University's Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility will give international scientists a close-up look ... > full story
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