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A trilobite fossil from the Ordovician period, which lasted from about 485 to 443 million years ago. Credit: Smithsonian. Scientists at Stanford University have discovered a surprising pattern in how life reemerges from cataclysm. Research published Oct. 6 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows the usual rules of
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The Hell Creek geologic formation. Credit: Andrea Godinez/Burke Museum/University of Washington. A team of paleontologists from the University of Washington and its Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture excavated four dinosaurs in northeastern Montana this summer. All fossils will be brought back to the Burke Museum where the public
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An artist’s rendering of the conditions during the End-Permian Mass Extinction, which wiped out nearly all life on earth. Credit: Victor Leshyk. The end-Permian mass extinction event of roughly 252 million years ago—the worst such event in earth’s history—has been linked to vast volcanic emissions of greenhouse gases, a major
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Credit: Joschua Knüppe. A new study suggests that all living snakes evolved from a handful of species that survived the giant asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs and most other living things at the end of the Cretaceous. The authors say that this devastating extinction event was a form
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Credit: University of Tsukuba. Iconic tyrannosauroids like T. rex famously dominated the top of the food web at the end of the reign of the dinosaurs. But they didn’t always hold that top spot. In a new study published in Royal Society Open Science, a research team led by the
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Credit: University of Western Australian. Scientists from The University of Western Australian and University of Cambridge have made a chance discovery in UK museum collections. They discovered hollow ball-like structures in 80-million-year-old fossils from species believed to be related to starfish and sea urchins. The scientists found the unusual structures
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A trilobite fossil from the Ordovician period, which lasted from about 485 to 443 million years ago. Credit: Smithsonian. Scientists at Stanford University have discovered
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The Hell Creek geologic formation. Credit: Andrea Godinez/Burke Museum/University of Washington. A team of paleontologists from the University of Washington and its Burke Museum of
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An artist’s rendering of the conditions during the End-Permian Mass Extinction, which wiped out nearly all life on earth. Credit: Victor Leshyk. The end-Permian mass
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Credit: Joschua Knüppe. A new study suggests that all living snakes evolved from a handful of species that survived the giant asteroid impact that wiped
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Credit: University of Tsukuba. Iconic tyrannosauroids like T. rex famously dominated the top of the food web at the end of the reign of the
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Credit: University of Western Australian. Scientists from The University of Western Australian and University of Cambridge have made a chance discovery in UK museum collections.
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