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Study provides insight into nesting behavior of dinosaursFairfax VA (SPX) May 20, 2013 A university study into the incubation behavior of modern birds is shedding new light on the type of parental care carried out by their long extinct ancestors. The study, by researchers at George Mason University and University of Lincoln (United Kingdom), aimed to test the hypothesis that data from exisiting birds could be used to predict the incubation behaviour of Theropods, a group of carnivorous dinosaurs from which birds descended. The paper, in Biology Letters, was co-written by Geoff ... read more |
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 Slow earthquakes: It's all in the rock mechanics Shifts in global water systems markers of The Anthropocene epoch How should geophysics contribute to disaster planning Scientists explore roots of future tropical rainfall Do salamanders hold the solution to regeneration Morton Arboretum Partners with NASA to Understand why Trees Fail | .. |
 Dinosaur predecessors gain ground in wake of world's biggest biodiversity crisis Many scientists have thought that dinosaur predecessors missed the race to fill habitats emptied when nine out of 10 species disappeared during the Earth's largest mass extinction, approximately 252 ... more | .. |
 Climate shift killed Australia's giant beasts: study Gigantic animals which once roamed Australia were mostly extinct by the time humans arrived, according to a new study Tuesday which suggests climate change played the key role in their demise. ... more | .. |
 The Black Sea is a goldmine of ancient genetic data When Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) marine paleoecologist Marco Coolen was mining through vast amounts of genetic data from the Black Sea sediment record, he was amazed about the variet ... more | .. |
 Feast clue to smell of ancient earth Tiny 1,900 million-year-old fossils from rocks around Lake Superior, Canada, give the first ever snapshot of organisms eating each other and suggest what the ancient Earth would have smelled like. ... more |
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 Canada's distinctive tuya volcanoes reveal glacial, palaeo-climate secrets Deposits left by the eruption of a subglacial volcano, or tuya, 1.8 million years ago could hold the secret to more accurate palaeo-glacial and climate models, according to new research by Universit ... more | .. |
 Finding Nematostella: An ancient sea creature There's a new actor on the embryology stage: the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Its career is being launched in part by Stowers Institute for Medical Research Associate Investigator Mat ... more | .. |
 MU Expert Analyzes Fossil of Great Ape Researchers who unearthed the fossil specimen of an ape skeleton in Spain in 2002 assigned it a new genus and species, Pierolapithecus catalaunicus. They estimated that the ape lived about 11.9 mill ... more | .. |
 Ancient bird fossil gives clues to evolution of wing shapes Well-preserved fossil feathers have brought an understanding of prehistoric wing shapes in ways not possible with bones alone, U.S. paleontologists say. ... more |
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 What Happened to Dinosaurs' Predecessors After Earth's Largest Extinction 252 Million Years Ago? Predecessors to dinosaurs missed the race to fill habitats emptied when nine out of 10 species disappeared during Earth's largest mass extinction 252 million years ago. Or did they? That think ... more | .. |
 The Earth's center is 1,000 degrees hotter than previously thought Scientists have determined the temperature near the Earth's centre to be 6000 degrees Celsius, 1000 degrees hotter than in a previous experiment run 20 years ago. These measurements confirm ge ... more | .. |
 Unique Chemistry Reveals Eruption of Ancient Materials Once at Earth's Surface An international team of researchers, including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, geochemist James Day, has found new evidence that material contained in oceanic lava flows originat ... more | .. |
 Fish was on the menu for early flying dinosaur University of Alberta led research reveals that Microraptor, a small flying dinosaur was a complete hunter, able to swoop down and pickup fish as well as its previously known prey of birds and tree ... more |
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 Ancient Earth crust stored in deep mantle Scientists have long believed that lava erupted from certain oceanic volcanoes contains materials from the early Earth's crust. But decisive evidence for this phenomenon has proven elusive. Ne ... more | .. |
 Dinosaur egg study supports evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs A small, bird-like North American dinosaur incubated its eggs in a similar way to brooding birds - bolstering the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs, researchers at the University of Calg ... more | .. |
 Genome sequencing of the living coelacanth sheds light on the evolution of land vertebrate An historic fish, with an intriguing past, now has had its genome sequenced, providing a wealth of information on the genetic changes that accompanied the adaptation from an aquatic environment to l ... more | .. |
 Researchers demonstrate oldest dinosaur embryos An international team of researchers, including a paleontologist from the University of Bonn, have proven dinosaur embryos to be the oldest ever found. The specimens of Lufengosaurus discovered in C ... more |
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 STRATCOM strives to build coalitions for space operations Planning Accelerates For Pluto Encounter Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock Raytheon's newest Standard Missile-3 takes out complex, separating short-range ballistic missile target ATK Hoping Tp Clean Up Rocketscience Three Planets Converge In Western Twilight May 25-28 | .. |
 Fishing for solutions Equipped with the zebrafish genome, researchers have designed a method to assay the function of each and every gene and to explore the effects genetic variation has on zebrafish. So far the team has ... more | .. |
 Carbon's role in atmosphere formation A new study of how carbon is trapped and released by iron-rich volcanic magma offers clues about the early atmospheric evolution on Mars and other terrestrial bodies. The composition of a planet's a ... more | .. |
 Researcher offers clues on the origins of life A structural biologist at the Florida State University College of Medicine has made discoveries that could lead scientists a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth billions of ... more | .. |
 New measurement of crocodilian nerves could help scientists understand ancient animals Crocodilians have nerves on their faces that are so sensitive, they can detect a change in a pond when a single drop hits the water surface several feet away. Alligators and crocodiles use these "in ... more |
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 New evidence dinosaurs were strong swimmers A University of Alberta researcher has identified some of the strongest evidence ever found that dinosaurs could paddle long distances. Working together with an international research team, U ... more | .. |
 Controversial worm keeps its position as the progenitor of mankind Researchers are arguing about whether or not the Xenoturbella bocki worm is the progenitor of mankind. But new studies indicate that this is actually the case. Swedish researchers from the Universit ... more | .. |
 New fossil species from a fish-eat-fish world when limbed animals evolved "We call it a 'fish-eat-fish world,' an ecosystem where you really needed to escape predation," said Dr. Ted Daeschler, describing life in the Devonian period in what is now far-northern Canada. ... more | .. |
 A tiny grain helps reveal the history of a rock Rutile is used in ceramics and paints, but is particularly useful for finding out about the history of a rock. Where mineral deposits are found, rutile is often also present. The new methods therefo ... more |
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