China Jurassic fossil discovery sheds light on bird origin
A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered two bird fossils in Jurassic-era ...
Global warming and mass extinctions: What we can learn from plants from the last ice age
Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...
Technofossils: how the pollution of today will become the fossils of the far future
It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...
How the pollution of today will become the ‘technofossils’ of the far future
It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...
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Evidence of cannibalism 18,000 years ago
An international research team has gained new insights into the burial rituals of Late Ice Age societies in Central Europe. Signs of human remains from the Maszycka Cave in southern Poland being ...
3 million years ago, our ancestors were vegetarian: Here’s the evidence, why it matters
New research suggests that our ancestors, such as Australopithecus, consumed little to no meat, relying instead on a ...
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410-million-year-old plant fossil sheds light on Earth's ecological shift
NANJING -- Chinese scientists have discovered a tiny plant species dating back about 410 million years in Duyun city, Southwest China's Guizhou province, offering new insights into the process of ...
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66-million-year-old Vomit Fossil Reveals Shocking Secrets of Ancient Predators
A fascinating and rare discovery has shed light on the dietary habits of ancient predators: a 66-million-year-old fossilized vomit, found at Stevns Klint in eastern Denmark. The fossil was unearthed ...
Nature16d
How I find and explain plant fossils in Romania
A coal mine is so interesting, because you always find fossil plants there. This Bigar site became a field laboratory. Each year, I teach a field course there on geological mapping. I now spend ...
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Europe posts record year for clean energy use as Trump pulls US toward fossil fuels
(AP Photo/Michael Varaklas, File) The Jaenschwalde coal-fired power plant operates in Jaenschwalde, Germany, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File) A floating solar farm operates on the ...
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Stinky bloom of 'corpse flower' enthrals thousands
Putricia has been placed behind a velvet rope in Sydney's botanic gardens An endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink is blooming in Australia - and captivating the ...
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Two new 300-million-year-old plant species discovered in Portugal
as well as their paleoecology," stated Góis-Marques, according to Observador. He described the finding as "a singular find," noting that "fossils of plants belonging to the extinct ...