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Ancient animal thought to be first air breather on land loses claim to fame
Some good scientific sleuthing by an undergraduate student has helped rewrite one of the earliest chapters in the planet’s evolutionary history. The research has shown that the millipede thought to be the world’s oldest known air-breathing land creature is in … Continue reading
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Life in the Precambrian may have been much livelier than previously thought
The strange creatures that lived in the Garden of the Ediacaran more than 540 million years ago, before animals came on the scene, may have been much more dynamic than experts have thought. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily
Warm-bloodedness possibly much older than previously thought
Warm-bloodedness in land animals could have evolved much earlier than previously thought, suggests a study of the bones of the long-extinct mammal predecessor Ophiacodon. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily
World’s oldest plant-like fossils show multicellular life appeared earlier than thought
Scientists have found fossils of 1.6 billion-year-old probable red algae. The spectacular finds indicate that advanced multicellular life evolved much earlier than previously thought. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily
Oil manufacturing releases extra methane than beforehand thought
Oil manufacturing releases extra methane than beforehand thought Global methane and ethane emissions from oil manufacturing from 1980 to 2012 have been far greater than earlier estimates present, in line with a brand new research which for the primary time … Continue reading
South American fossil tomatillos show nightshades evolved earlier than thought
Delicate fossil remains of tomatillos found in Patagonia, Argentina, show that this branch of the economically important family that also includes potatoes, peppers, tobacco, petunias and tomatoes existed 52 million years ago, long before the dates previously ascribed to these … Continue reading
Corals much older than previously thought
Acropora palmata is listed as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act. Coral genotypes can survive for thousands of years, possibly making them the longest-lived animals in the world, according to researchers at Penn State, the National Marine Fisheries Service … Continue reading
Greenland ice is melting seven percent faster than previously thought
The same hotspot in Earth’s mantle that feeds Iceland’s active volcanoes has been affecting scientists’ calculations of ice loss in the Greenland ice sheet, causing them to underestimate the melting by about 20 gigatons (20 billion metric tons) per year. … Continue reading
Greenland ice is melting 7 percent faster than previously thought
The same hotspot in Earth’s mantle that feeds Iceland’s active volcanoes has been playing a trick on the scientists who are trying to measure how much ice is melting on nearby Greenland. According to a new study, the hotspot softened … Continue reading
Mammal-like reptile survived much longer than thought
Teeth can reveal a lot, such as how the earliest mammals lived with their neighbors. Researchers have uncovered dozens of fossilized teeth in Kuwajima, Japan and identified this as a new species of tritylodontid, an animal family that links the … Continue reading