About 250 million years in the past, the Permian-Triassic mass extinction killed over 80 per cent of the planet's species. Within the aftermath, scientists imagine that life on earth was dominated by easy species for as much as 10 million years earlier than extra complicated ecosystems may evolve. Now this ...

The invention of an 80-million-year-old fossil plant pushes again the recognized origins of lamiids to the Cretaceous, extending the report of practically 40,000 species of flowering vegetation together with modern-day staple crops like espresso, tomatoes, potatoes and mint.

New analysis has uncovered that pollen preserved in 250 million yr outdated rocks include compounds that operate like sunscreen, these are produced by vegetation to guard them from dangerous ultraviolet (UV-B) radiation. The findings suggests pulse of UV-B performed an essential half in the long run Permian mass extinction ...

Evaluation of tooth of extinct lemurs has revealed fascinating clues to the evolution of people, a brand new research has discovered.

A specimen retrieved from a cabinet of the Pure Historical past Museum in London has proven that fashionable lizards originated within the Late Triassic and never the Center Jurassic as beforehand thought.

A brand new research finds that the well being advantages related to wind energy may greater than quadruple if operators turned down output from probably the most polluting fossil-fuel-based energy vegetation when vitality from wind is out there. Nevertheless, in comparison with wealthier communities, deprived communities would reap a smaller ...

In keeping with a brand new research, fossils of a tiny sea creature with a carefully preserved nervous system clear up a century-old debate over how the mind developed in arthropods, essentially the most species-rich group within the animal kingdom. Combining detailed anatomical research of the fossilized nervous system with analyses ...

Discovering a brand new species is all the time thrilling, however so is discovering one alive that everybody assumed had been misplaced to the passage of time. A small clam, beforehand recognized solely from fossils, has just lately been discovered residing at Naples Level, close to Santa Barbara.

Piecing collectively the crushed cranium of a fossil chicken that lived alongside the dinosaurs helped researchers extrapolate what its mind would have seemed like: huge olfactory bulbs would have meant that this chicken, the earliest recognized animal to eat fruit, had a greater sense of odor than most trendy birds. ...

A decade-long examine into distinctive rocks close to a Derbyshire village has been uncovering the secrets and techniques of what the county and the Peak District might need appeared like underneath a a lot hotter and wetter previous.