16+ hour, 38+ min ago  (252+ words) Activity Database on Education and Research Researchers originally assigned the three Ajimu specimens to the genus Andrias, which includes the world's largest living amphibians, but at the time, a lack of comparative specimens and research prevented their precise taxonomic identification....

22+ hour, 53+ min ago  (579+ words) Mirage News A flapping-wing robot that can both swim underwater and fly through the air is helping scientists rethink how diving birds manage life in two radically different worlds. "In addition to shedding light on the morphological and behavioral adaptations…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (336+ words) An interdisciplinary team from Florida State University's Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science has uncovered new evidence about processes that may have contributed to ancient mass-extinction events, some of the most dramatic ecosystem reorganizations in Earth's history. The study,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (203+ words) Mirage News The deep sea, which is typically defined as depths of at least 200 feet, is home to 90% of marine fish life, but the fishes that inhabit it are poorly represented in the fossil record. Whole body fish fossils are…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago  (391+ words) Mirage News Traces or perforations caused by living organisms after the animal's death can be found on various dinosaur bone remains. These perforations, known as bioerosion structures, provide information that helps us understand the relationships between living organisms in the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (664+ words) The world's tiniest marsupials, the planigales, have just gained a new species, after extensive genetic and morphological analysis led by QUT ecologists. Planigale petrophila, a new distinct species found in the rocky slopes in Kakadu National Park Planigales now have…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago  (765+ words) More than 100 million years ago, a flying reptile called a pterosaur flew over the oceans hunting squid and fish. Much more recently, one of its wing bones was discovered in Brazil, transformed over the aeons into a fossil made of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (440+ words) An international study led by Curtin University has revealed new insights into how an ancient flying reptile was preserved in extraordinary detail for 113 million years - offering a rare glimpse into a vanished world. That the fossilised wing phalanx of a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (240+ words) An international team of researchers, including emeritus professor Wil Roebroeks of Leiden University's Faculty of Archaeology, has uncovered evidence that modern fallow deer have lost much of the genetic diversity once present in their Ice Age ancestors. The findings have…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (569+ words) An international study led by Flinders University has looked in places others haven't before - and opened a new chapter to life on Earth. Analysis of a little-studied museum fossil has given new insights into a mysterious gap in the fossil…...