News tagged with miocene period
Peru researchers make rare ancient insect find
Researchers in Peru said Tuesday they have discovered the remains of ancient insects and sunflower seeds trapped inside amber dating from the Miocene epoch, some 23 million years ago.
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Aug 10, 2011 |
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Researchers find fossils of new type of European camel
Spanish researchers said Monday they have discovered evidence of a previously unknown type of camel which lived in Europe six million years ago.
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Jun 29, 2009 |
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Over 65 million years North American mammal evolution has tracked with climate change
Climate changes profoundly influenced the rise and fall of six distinct, successive waves of mammal species diversity in North America over the last 65 million years, shows a novel statistical analysis led ...
Dec 26, 2011 |
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Six years and 12,000 holes: Cyprus mapped
It was a marathon project that took six years and the collection and analysis of some 12,000 soil samples, but an international team of geologists has managed to create the Geochemical Atlas of Cyprus.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Fossilized pollen reveals climate history of northern Antarctica
A painstaking examination of the first direct and detailed climate record from the continental shelves surrounding Antarctica reveals that the last remnant of Antarctic vegetation existed in a tundra landscape ...
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Jun 27, 2011 |
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Succulent plants waited for cool, dry Earth to make their mark
The cactus, stalwart of the desert, has quite a story to tell about the evolution of plant communities found the world over.
May 03, 2011 |
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Ecologist: La Nina one major cause for Texas wildfires
(PhysOrg.com) -- About 1.5 million acres of Texas has burned this year, and a Texas Tech University plant ecologist said a natural weather event called La Nina has much of the blame for the recent rash of wildfires.
Apr 27, 2011 |
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Oyster shells are a scientific treasure trove
The breakdown of the seasonality pattern marked a period of dramatic climate change 16–12 million years ago. This is the finding of an analysis of fossil oyster shells from the area around Vienna. The ...
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Apr 18, 2011 |
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When African animals hit the hay: Fossil teeth show who ate what and when as grasses emerged
Fossil teeth of African animals show that during the past 10 million years, different plant-eating critters began grazing on grass at different times as many switched from a salad-bar diet of tree leaves and ...
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Green toad inhabited Iberian Peninsula one million years ago
Although the green toad (Bufo viridis) can today be found all over Central Europe, Asia, Africa, and even on the Balearic Islands, it became extinct in the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the Early Pleist ...
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Mar 31, 2011 |
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Can modern-day plants trace their New Zealand ancestry?
One hundred million years ago the earth looked very different from how it does today. Continents were joining and breaking apart, dinosaurs were roaming the earth, and flowering plants were becoming more widespread.
Jan 21, 2010 |
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Loud and lazy but didn't chew gum: Ancient koalas
(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" ...
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Dec 19, 2009 |
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