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This 518-Million-Year-Old Creature Reveals How Spiders Got Their Bite
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (773+ words) Scientists from the University of Leicester and Yunnan University identified an ancient member of the chelicerate group. Beneath the rock surrounding a tiny fossil from southern China, two small limbs had remained hidden for 518 million years. When researchers finally looked…...
Forgotten for 20 Years, This 240-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a New Reptile Species
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (1107+ words) Fragmentary bones from Brazil reveal a new Triassic reptile close to the lineage that preceded dinosaurs and crocodiles. Some 240 million years ago, long before dinosaurs dominated the land and modern crocodiles emerged, their distant relatives were undergoing a crucial stage…...
190-Year-Old Museum Specimen Solves a Pangolin Mystery
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (998+ words) New DNA analysis and a reconstructed family tree could help protect it from poaching. On a museum shelf in London, a pangolin specimen collected nearly 190 years ago held genetic evidence that could change how conservationists track one of the world’s…...
The Hotspot Beneath Hawaii Is Getting Hotter, Defying a Long-Held Geological Theory
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (433+ words) Rising mantle temperatures and two heat surges may explain why some Hawaiian volcanoes grew exceptionally large. A 3500 km (2200 mile) trail of volcanoes records the Pacific plate’s slow passage over the Hawaiian hotspot. Instead of cooling through time as geologists have…...
3.1-Billion-Year-Old Rocks Rewrite the History of Earth’s Early Tectonics
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (928+ words) Earth may have been recycling surface water through its deep interior more than three billion years ago. In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, volcanic rocks more than three billion years old preserve traces of a journey once considered unlikely....
One Asteroid Collision May Have Rocked Earth, Mars, and the Moon
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (721+ words) A shattered asteroid may have unleashed a long-lasting cosmic barrage that left scars across the inner solar system and possibly changed Earth’s history....
The Oldest Known Right-Handed Animal May Have Lived 550 Million Years Ago
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (720+ words) New research suggests that the ancient animal Spriggina floundersi tended to bend to the right, making it the oldest known example of lateralized behavior. More than 550 million years ago, a small, flattened animal moved across the seafloor and repeatedly favored…...
Stanford Scientists Solve a 252-Million-Year-Old Mass Extinction Mystery
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Scientists Solve the Mystery of Why Antarctica Froze Before the Arctic
1+ week, 3+ day ago (584+ words) Antarctica’s first ice sheet may have begun with a geological head start hidden deep beneath the continent....
567-Million-Year-Old Fossils Suggest Animals Evolved Earlier Than We Thought
1+ week, 5+ day ago (797+ words) The story of Earth’s first animals may need rewriting after ancient fossils revealed an earlier start to complex life. From butterflies to blue whales, corals, and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these…...