We and all other animals wouldn’t be here today if our planet didn’t have a lot of oxygen in its atmosphere and oceans. But how crucial were high oxygen levels to the […]
Which Came First: Complex Life Or High Atmospheric Oxygen?
Fossil Plankton May Be The Key To Understanding Prehistoric Climate Change
Ancient fossilised algae may be the gateway to understanding carbon dioxide and the role it played in transforming the prehistoric climate, a new Oxford University study has found. Alongside collaborators from the Plymouth Marine […]
Dino-Killing Asteroid Made Rocks Behave like Liquid And Could Have Provided Habitat for New Life
A study of the massive crater that formed when an asteroid crashed into Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out all nonavian dinosaurs and most life on the planet, is giving insights […]
Mammal Diversity Exploded Immediately After Dinosaur Extinction
The diversity of mammals on Earth exploded straight after the dinosaur extinction event, according to UCL researchers. New analysis of the fossil record shows that placental mammals, the group that today includes […]
Paleo Diet: Big Brains Needed Carbs – The Importance Of Dietary Carbohydrate In Human Evolution
Understanding how and why we evolved such large brains is one of the most puzzling issues in the study of human evolution. It is widely accepted that brain size increase is partly […]
Saving Oysters By Digging Up Their Past
Restoring oyster reefs is not an easy task, but by digging deep and examining centuries-old reefs, marine restoration professionals may stand a better chance at bringing oysters back, said a new Cornell […]
Why We Have Chins
by University of Iowa Look at a primate or a Neanderthal skull and compare it with a modern human’s. Notice anything missing? We have one feature that primates, Neanderthals, archaic humans–any species, […]
Scientist Identifies New Dinosaur Species
A new species of horned dinosaur has been identified from fossils held in a Canadian museum for 75 years. The fossils had previously been classified as belonging to a different dinosaur group. But […]
