8+ hour, 55+ min ago   (734+ words) In two separate studies, researchers have re-examined fossil material from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation in Western Australia and described a new lungfish species from 410 million-year-old rocks in Yunnan, South China, providing new insights into how early lobe-finned fishes diversified…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (285+ words) Fossils indicate that no animals resembling Sacabambaspis survived past the Late Ordovician extinction, underscoring how severely the crisis pruned early vertebrate lineages. In contrast, jawed vertebrates that managed to persist through the event later diversified into the major fish groups…...

2+ mon, 13+ hour ago   (248+ words) The team describes a prebiotic gel-first framework in which semi-solid gel matrices, resembling modern microbial biofilms, hosted key steps in the origin of life. These gels could have concentrated small molecules, retained useful components, and buffered environmental fluctuations, allowing complex…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (362+ words) London, UK (SPX) Nov 25, 2025 Rock samples collected from beneath the Atlantic Ocean reveal that lava rubble accumulating on the seafloor can store carbon dioxide for tens of millions of years. Research led by the University of Southampton involved analyzing lava…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (520+ words) "We don't know exactly what these organisms would have looked like back then, but they absolutely would have lived in the ocean, they would have been soft-bodied, and we presume they didn't have a silica skeleton," says Roger Summons, the…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago   (382+ words) London, UK (SPX) Apr 03, 2025 New findings from the University of Bristol suggest that mammals had begun transitioning from arboreal habitats to terrestrial ones several million years prior to the asteroid strike that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Published in…...