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Brazil fossil lost for 20 years helps identify new reptile species from 240 million years ago
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (550+ words) AI-generated illustration of Silescelida acristata, a reptile that lived around 240 million years ago in what is now southern Brazil A fossil fragment that disappeared for around two decades has helped scientists identify a previously unknown reptile that lived about 240 million…...
Why is this 560-million-year-old fossil so rare?
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (648+ words) One of the oldest known 3D animal fossils dating back 560 million years has been found in a sheep field. The astonishing discovery of the creature that looked like a "goo-filled bag" when it was alive was made in northern Norway. Scientists…...
How can deep-sea organisms survive under extreme pressure?
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (180+ words) A research team, led by Professor Gaku Fukuhara of Kyushu University’s Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering (IMCE), investigated this biological phenomenon. They focused on PoXeR, a protein from a deep-sea bacterium. Using a custom-built apparatus, they subjected the protein…...
A fossil feather preserved inside dinosaur poop could help explain why birds survived the mass extinction
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (17+ words) Phys.org...
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3+ day, 20+ hour ago (35+ words) The Business Standard 20-metre dinosaur fossil unearthed at construction site in Brazil Scientists have identified the animal as Dasosaurus tocantinensis, a roughly 20-metre-long sauropod that is now the largest known dinosaur discovered in Maranhão...
324-million-year-old insect fossil reveals early life on Earth roamed between water and land
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (956+ words) A 324-million-year-old fossil suggests early insects lived between water and land as their bodies gradually changed over time. Life on Earth changed greatly when animals began moving from water onto land. It happened in stages, and some early animals, including…...
Finding independently evolved microbial life on Mars would be one of history’s greatest discoveries—but Robin Hanson’s Great Filter argument gives it a darker edge. If simple life arises easily, then whatever keeps the universe silent must lie later on the road from microbes to spacefaring civilisation—and it may still be ahead of us.
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (988+ words) A second origin of life could reshape the Great Filter argument. It would not establish that a catastrophe lies ahead: later evolutionary barriers and limits to our searches remain part of the question. By Life Signs · Edited by Lachlan Brown…...
Scientists discover giant poop explosion helped reshape life on Earth
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (420+ words) Scientists have found evidence that a massive release of fossilized animal feces, triggered by the evolution of the anus, may have helped kickstart the sudden explosion of complex life on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago. Dr Russell Bicknell…...
New Brunswick Museum home to 650-million-year-old fossil
1+ week, 1+ day ago (79+ words) CBC New Brunswick Museum home to 650-million-year-old fossil The marble slab with embedded stromatolite, or ancient tiny organisms like algae, is the oldest fossil record in Atlantic Canada. - How a Saint John man found the oldest fossils in Atlantic Canada…...
Archaea as "flexitarians": ammonia-oxidizing microbes also feed on amino acids
1+ week, 1+ day ago (193+ words) The tiny helpers of marine sponges also use organic amino acids image: Figure 1: The bright yellow elephant ear sponge, called Ianthella basta, can be found across coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific Ocean including the Great Barrier Reef off the coast…...