News tagged with fossil deposits
Evidence of the 'Lost World' -- did dinosaurs survive the end Cretaceous extinctions?
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 28, 2009 |
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The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's account of an isolated community of dinosaurs that survived the catastrophic extinction event 65 million years ago, has no less appeal now than it did when it was written a century ...
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New fossil bird found
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 01, 2008 |
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Details of a fabulous new fossil bird from the world-famous fossil deposits of Liaoning in China, are published this week in the journal Science in China. Details of the bird's bone structure and feathers are ex ...
Unexpected amber find rewrites botanical history
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An unexpected discovery made by Macquarie University PhD student Sargent Bray about the origin and nature of chemical compounds contained in ancient amber has changed our understanding of ...
Alaskan drilling will assess gas hydrate
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 20, 2007 |
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Drilling has started on an Alaskan North Slope well to assess the United States' largest potential fossil energy resource: gas hydrate.
Mars mission could ease Earth's energy supply crisis
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Techniques and instrumentation initially developed for ExoMars - Europe’s next robotic mission to Mars in 2016 - but now due to fly on a NASA mission in 2018, could also provide the answers to the globally pressing issue ...
Rich Ore Deposits Linked to Ancient Atmosphere
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Much of our planet's mineral wealth was deposited billions of years ago when Earth's chemical cycles were different from today's. Using geochemical clues from rocks nearly 3 billion years old, a group of ...
260-million-year-old ear discovered
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 12, 2007 |
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German paleobiologists studying 260-million-year-old fossils found in Russia have discovered what's believe to be the first anatomically modern ear.
Scientists uncover a dramatic rise in sea level and its broad ramifications
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Scientists have found proof in Bermuda that the planet's sea level was once more than 21 meters (70 feet) higher about 400,000 years ago than it is now. Their findings were published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews Wednes ...
Climate change reduces Queensland's bat numbers
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Jul 09, 2007 |
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A central eastern Queensland mine has turned up bat fossils which show climate change has had a negative impact on the state’s bat population.
Bias in the rock record?
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Jan 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The fossil record is known to be biased by the unevenness of geographical and stratigraphical sampling, and the lack of exposed rocks containing fossils. In a recent Perspective in Science [2 Jan ...
Scientists seek safe carbon dioxide storage for 'greener' power generation (w/ Video)
Nov 09, 2009 |
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to fund research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Engineering on technologies that would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the capture ...
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