4+ hour, 19+ min ago   (230+ words) Florida State University researchers are part of an international team whose work reveals that North and South American mammals interacted before the Panamanian land bridge formed about 3 million years ago. North and South America were once isolated continents home to…...

7+ hour, 51+ min ago   (206+ words) Analysing ancient DNA of over 500 mammoth bones, an international team of researchers found that Ice Age humans selectively targeted female woolly mammoths. The results of the study, published in Current Biology, show that in contrast to the sex ratio among…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (309+ words) ANSTO has supported research that has revealed for the first time marine reptile ichthyosaurs consumed pterosaurs before becoming prey themselves to giant marine predators. This extraordinary fossil discovered near Richmond in Outback Queensland has provided one of the clearest behavioural…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (328+ words) This powerful and accessible tool for palaeogeographic research and education is now presented in an article in the journal Scientific Reports. The authors are experts Noa Scholz-Murcia, Alejandro Rodríguez-Mena, Víctor Madarnás-Gómez and Antonio Monleón-Getino, from the Department of Genetics, Microbiology…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (351+ words) The group proposes that the environment around the Pilcomayo is a better comparison to the fossil record of life on land due to the sediment actively accumulating from the Andes. To test this hypothesis, the future fossils found on the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (548+ words) Deep in a cave in the Missouri Ozarks, a ghostly crustacean blindly grasps for food in total darkness. Illuminated by a flashlight, the Bristly Cave crayfish shines white and nearly translucent. Cut off from sunlight for thousands of generations, cave…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (650+ words) Within every muscle of every living species with a backbone, a protein called myosin tugs on a partner protein to generate a muscle contraction. This function, discovered in mammals a century ago, has been presumed by scientists to be operating…...

2+ week, 6+ day 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....

3+ week, 4+ hour 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…...

3+ week, 1+ day 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,…...