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- Fuzzy future: Kids may suffer impaired vision from spending too little time outdoors, studies suggest
- Building with moon rocks: Working on the moon with lunar soil and grit could prove easier, more efficient and less costly than using earthly materials
- Major twister hits Oklahoma: Its speed, which largely determines the damage it causes, is still unknown
Paleobiology
- The great die-off 250 million years ago could trace in part to hostile water conditions, a modeling study suggests.
- Fossilized plesiosaur with fetus suggests ancient reptiles cared for their young.
- High sulfur and low oxygen produced a deadly brew nearly 500 million years ago that apparently stalled a burst of evolutionary change.
- Bornean apes went through a genetic bottleneck when isolated during an ancient glaciation.
- A classic Canadian fossil trove extends to thinner deposits, geologists find.
- A recently discovered fossil demonstrates that giant whales weren’t always as gentle as they are today.
- Warm-bloodedness may help explain the creatures’ evolutionary success, a new study suggests.
- After examining more than 90 new specimens of Nectocaris pteryx, paleontologists put it near the root of the cephalopod evolutionary tree.
- The feathers of Archaeopteryx and Confuciusornis probably were not strong enough to support sustained flight.
- X-ray technique reveals original tissue in the feathers of a primitive bird fossil.
- In one species, adolescents appear to have sprouted a new type of feathers as they matured.
- Australian fossils suggest the kin of T. rex dispersed globally 110 million years ago.
- Shark-bitten fecal matter probably came from an assault on an ancient croc.
- A study of a rare Norwegian fossil narrows down when polar bears evolved and finds they are closely related to modern-day brown bears in Alaska.
- Isotopic analyses of fossils suggest the carnivores had crocodile-like habits.
- Analysis of a fossil suggests plumage first evolved for display, not flight.
- Researchers find microscopic structures in some fossils that may have held pigments.
- Newly discovered trackways much older than previous evidence for sea-to-land transition.
- The dog-sized creature bolsters the notion that early dinosaurs first appeared in what is now South America.
- Scorpionflies with long-reaching mouthparts may have helped plants procreate long before blossoms evolved.
- Fossil analyses hint that several species thrived during the world’s largest mass extinction.
- Scientists have uncovered a feather-laden, peacock-sized dinosaur that predates the oldest known bird.
- Paleontologists discover fossilized skeleton of bus-sized marine reptile that had teeth with serrated edges.
- Genetic determination of gender is linked to live birth and evolutionary success of ancient marine reptiles, study finds.
- Structures found in Australian rocks may be the filled-in remains of the world’s oldest dinosaur burrows.
- Fossils of two new daddy longlegs species have been unearthed in China.
- Fossilized fingers strengthen evolutionary link between dinosaurs and avian relatives.
- Peruvian petrified forest offers insight into low-latitude conditions of millions of years ago
- Fossils include largest known trilobite specimen and groups of the ancient arthropods caught in the act of molting and spawning.
- Researchers have uncovered soft tissue and fragments of several proteins from a hadrosaur.
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