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June 16, 2025
Ancient Scottish Fossils Push Back Tetrapod Timeline

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2025
In 1984, an amateur fossil hunter in Scotland uncovered a near-complete specimen that reshaped scientists' understanding of early land vertebrates. The small creature, just 20 centimeters long, turned out to be a crucial transitional species known as Westlothiana lizziae. For decades, researchers debated its true age and place in evolutionary history. New research from the University of Texas at Austin reveals that the Westlothiana lizziae and similar ancient salamander-like creatures are 14 milli ... read more
Rock record illuminates oxygen history
Syracuse NY (SPX) Jun 02, 2025
Several key moments in Earth's history help us humans answer the question, "How did we get here?" These moments also shed light on the question, "Where are we going"? - offering scientists deeper in ... more
Redrawing the Evolutionary Timeline of Reptiles with New Fossil Evidence
Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 15, 2025
New fossil evidence from Australia has pushed the origin of reptiles on Earth back by up to 40 million years, significantly revising the timeline of vertebrate evolution. Researchers from Flinders U ... more
Ancient Fossil Tracks Push Back Reptile Evolution by 40 Million Years
Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 15, 2025
Fossil tracks uncovered in the Mansfield district of northern Victoria, Australia, indicate that reptiles may have appeared on Earth up to 40 million years earlier than previously believed. These ne ... more
New Fossil Find Reveals 506-Million-Year-Old Predator in Burgess Shale
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 14, 2025
Palaeontologists from the Manitoba Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have identified a newly discovered 506-million-year-old predator from the Burgess Shale in Canada. The findings, publishe ... more
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Earth's Core Waves Reveal New Paths for Planetary Exploration
Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 12, 2025
The detection of powerful seismic signals generated by winter storms in the North Atlantic Ocean, which travel through the Earth's core, could offer fresh insights into the study of our planet's int ... more
Missing nitrogen traced to deep Earth core in planetary formation simulations
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 14, 2025
A longstanding mystery in Earth science may finally have an answer: why Earth's rocky mantle contains so little nitrogen compared to other volatile elements. According to a new study from Ehime Univ ... more
Early crust study reshapes view of Earth's ancient history
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 03, 2025
Researchers have uncovered new evidence that challenges long-held beliefs about the origins of Earth's continents and the emergence of plate tectonics. A recent study published in Nature on April 2 ... more
How survivors spanned the globe after Earth's biggest mass extinction
Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2025
Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species vanished during the end-Permian mass extincti ... more
York U research sheds light on earliest days of Earth's formation
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Mar 30, 2025
New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of the Earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the ... more
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Molecule's "fingerprint" may help explain formation of life on earth
Saskatoon, Canada (SPX) Mar 24, 2025
The chemical element sulphur is essential for all life forms and is a building block of proteins and amino acids. By studying sulphur-based molecules in space, scientists are working to understand t ... more
Ivory Coast's epochal prehistoric finds pass unseen
Abidjan (AFP) Mar 18, 2025
In the streets of Anyama, children play and braziers smoke on corners. There is little to show that the ground of this everyday Ivory Coast neighbourhood conceals seminal prehistoric treasures. ... more
'Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparked life on Earth
Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2025
Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from crashing waterfalls or breaking waves. New re ... more
Nearby Supernovae Linked to Two Ancient Earth Extinctions
London, UK (SPX) Mar 13, 2025
A recent study suggests that at least two of Earth's mass extinctions may have been triggered by the powerful effects of nearby supernova explosions. Researchers at Keele University propose that the ... more
Anomaly in Deep Sea Sediments May Serve as Geological Time Marker
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 12, 2025
Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive isotope formed by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, is providing new insights into Earth's geological past. A research team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendor ... more
How life's building blocks formed on early Earth examined through polyester protocell formation limits

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 10, 2025
One prominent theory regarding the emergence of life on Earth suggests that simple chemical molecules progressively evolved into complex structures, eventually giving rise to protocells-rudimentary, non-living structures that preceded modern cells. A leading candidate for these protocells is polyester microdroplets, which arise through the polymerization of alpha-hydroxy acids (aHAs), compounds hypothesized to have accumulated on the early Earth due to natural phenomena such as lightning strikes or mete ... read more
Meteorite findings reshape theories on Earth's missing elements
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2025
The origins of Earth's essential elements-and the absence of certain key components-have long perplexed scientists. A recent study led by Arizona State University is now challenging established theo ... more

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Research Shows Impact of 'Super-Earth' on Solar System
Melbourne FL (SPX) Jan 15, 2025
Emily Simpson '24 has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she leaves with not ... more
Dinosaurs emerged in the northern hemisphere millions of years earlier
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 10, 2025
New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison challenges long-standing beliefs about dinosaur origins, suggesting that these ancient reptiles roamed the northern hemisphere millions of years ... more
Study uncovers ancient predator-prey rivalry in Cambrian seas
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 06, 2025
A groundbreaking study by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History has revealed the oldest known example of an evolutionary arms race in the fossil record. The findings, published in Cu ... more
Virginia Tech research unveils a new timeline of life stretching back 1.5 billion years
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 26, 2024
A groundbreaking Virginia Tech study has expanded our understanding of the evolution of life, extending the chart of species diversity to nearly 2 billion years ago, deep into the Proterozoic Eon. T ... more
Massive eruptions did not trigger dinosaur extinction
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 20, 2024
Massive volcanic eruptions in India, once theorized as a potential cause of dinosaur extinction, likely played a minimal role in their demise, according to new research by climate scientists at Utre ... more
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