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Study on land plant fossils shows Paleoasian Ocean disappeared about 251 million years ago

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 08, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

A latest discovery of land plant fossils from Heilongjiang, Northeast China shows that the Siberian Plate sutured with the North China Plate at the end of the Permian, and resulted in the final closure of the Paleoasian Ocean ...

Ancient pygmy sea cow discovered

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 14, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (6) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of a Middle Eocene (48.6-37.2 million years ago) sea cow fossil by McGill University professor Karen Samonds has culminated in the naming of a new species. This primitive "dugong" ...

New technology helps scientists understand ancient fossils

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 07, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1

Some of the world's oldest human bones and other ancient relics are studied here using some of the world's newest technologies.

Antarctica served as climatic refuge in Earth's greatest extinction event

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 02, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (10) | 0

A new fossil species suggests that some land animals may have survived the end-Permian extinction by living in cooler climates in Antarctica. Researchers have identified a distant relative of mammals that apparently survived ...

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.

Small faults in Southeast Spain reduce earthquake risk of larger ones

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 25, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A team of Spanish scientists, studying recent, active deformations in the Baetic mountain range, have shown that the activity of smaller tectonic structures close to larger faults in the south east of the ...

New Study of Meteorite Provides More Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 17, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (42) | 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1996, when scientists examined a meteorite from Mars previously uncovered in Antarctica, they were intrigued by what looked like microscopic fossils of ancient Martian life forms. Now, ...

Earliest toothless bird found

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 10, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new species of bird from the Cretaceous period in China has been identified. It had toothless upper and lower jaws, and provides significant information on the diversification in the evolution ...

Scientists decode memory-forming brain cell conversations

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Dec 16, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (13) | 0

The conversations neurons have as they form and recall memories have been decoded by Medical College of Georgia scientists.

Early carnivorous dinosaurs crossed continents

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 10, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Did the first dinosaurs wander across continents or stay put where they first evolved? The first dinosaurs evolved 230 million years ago when the continents were assembled into one landmass called Pangea. ...

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