News tagged with fossil feathers

Origin of birds confirmed by exceptional new dinosaur fossils

Sep 25, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (17) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chinese scientists today reveal the discovery of five remarkable new feathered dinosaur fossils which are significantly older than any previously reported. The new finds are indisputably older ...

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Fossil feathers preserve evidence of color

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Jul 09, 2008 | 4.8 / 5 (12) | 0

The traces of organic material found in fossil feathers are remnants of pigments that once gave birds their color, according to Yale scientists whose paper in Biology Letters opens up the potential to dep ...

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Panasonic develops direct methanol fuel cell system with high power output and durability

Technology / Energy

Dec 26, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (25) | 9

Panasonic Corporation announced it has developed a direct methanol fuel cell system which can produce an average power output of 20 W by increasing the output per cubic centimeter twice that of its previous prototype. Using ...

Australian fossil unlocks secrets to the origin of whales

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 22, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

Museum Victoria palaeobiologist Dr Erich Fitzgerald has made new groundbreaking discoveries into the origin of baleen whales, based on a 25 million year old fossil found near Torquay in Victoria.

Fossil shelved for a century reworks carnivore family tree

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 22, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (8) | 4

More than a hundred years after its discovery, the limbs and vertebrae of a fossil have been pulled off the shelf at the American Museum of Natural History to revise the view of early carnivore lifestyles. ...

Foot binding and a biological approach to the study of Chinese culture

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Dec 21, 2009 | 2.8 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Exaptation is a familiar concept to evolutionary biologists. It's the basic idea explaining that a trait can evolve because it starts serving a different function. Think of birds: at first, the most important ...

Poisonous prehistoric 'raptor' discovered in China

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 21, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (13) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of University of Kansas researchers working with Chinese colleagues have discovered a venomous, birdlike raptor that thrived some 128 million years ago in China. This is the first ...

Cornellians build computer climate-change model

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 21, 2009 | 2.7 / 5 (7) | 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are contributing to a new model of climate change that may give more accurate predictions of the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in Earth's future.

Frederic Scheer, head of the plastics manufacturer Cereplast

Potatoes, algae replace oil in US company's plastics

Chemistry / Materials Science

Dec 21, 2009 | 4 / 5 (19) | 6

Frederic Scheer is biding his time, convinced that by 2013 the price of oil will be so high that his bio-plastics, made from vegetables and plants, will be highly marketable.

Climate talks end with eye on next year

Space & Earth / Environment

Dec 19, 2009 | 1.7 / 5 (6) | 3

(AP) -- A historic U.N. climate conference ended Saturday with only a nonbinding "Copenhagen Accord" to show for two weeks of debate and frustration. It was a deal short on concrete steps against global warming, ...

Loud and lazy but didn't chew gum: Ancient koalas

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 19, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Skull fragments of prehistoric koalas from the Riversleigh rainforests of millions of year ago suggest they shared the modern koala's "lazy" lifestyle and ability to produce loud "bellowing" ...