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Oldest evidence of life on land found in 3.48 billion-year-old Australian rocks

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Fossils discovered by UNSW scientists in 3.48 billion year old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara region of Western Australia have pu...

Antibiotic-resistant microbes date back to 450 million years ago, well before the age of dinosaurs

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Leading hospital "superbugs," known as the enterococci, arose from an ancestor that dates back 450 million years -- about t...

Anemonefish dads do almost anything to support their offspring

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Like the father in "Finding Nemo," anemonefish dads will do almost anything to support their offspring. Their parenting ins...

Fierce mating battle between wild cuttlefish

Posted by | 9:05 AM
It sounds like Shakespearean drama: A male fights to protect his mate after a rival steals her away, using all his cunning and streng...

New species of dinosaur increases the already unexpected diversity of 'whiplash dinosaurs'

Posted by | 7:28 AM
Researchers from Italy and Portugal describe yet another new sauropod species from 150 million years ago, from Wyoming, USA. The new ...

Bonobos may be better representation of last common ancestor with humans than chimps

Posted by | 6:25 AM
A new study examining the muscular system of bonobos provides firsthand evidence that the rare great ape species may be more closely ...

Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past

Posted by | 5:32 AM
Ice cores drilled from a glacier in a cave in Transylvania offer new evidence of how Europe's winter weather and climate patterns...

Is climate change responsible for record-setting extreme weather events?

Posted by | 6:46 AM
After an unusually intense heat wave, downpour or drought, Noah Diffenbaugh and his research group inevitably receive phone calls and...

Retreating Yukon glacier caused a river to disappear

Posted by | 9:05 PM
The massive Kaskawulsh Glacier in northern Canada has retreated about a mile up its valley over the past century. Last spring, its retr...

Precision chronology sheds new light on the origins of Mongolia's nomadic horse culture

Posted by | 9:04 PM
According to new research, nomadic horse culture -- famously associated with Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes -- can trace its roots ...

Predicting the movement, impacts of microplastic pollution

Posted by | 9:03 PM
Marine circulation and weather conditions greatly affect microplastic aggregation and movement. Microplastics, which are particles meas...

Hunting accounts for 83 and 58 percent declines in tropical mammal and bird populations

Posted by | 11:22 AM
Hunting is a major threat to wildlife particularly in tropical regions, but a systematic large-scale estimate of hunting-induced decl...

Three quarters of deep-sea animals make their own light

Posted by | 7:57 PM
Ever since explorer William Beebe descended into the depths in a metal sphere in the 1930s, marine biologists have been astounded by th...

Melting sea ice may lead to more life in the sea

Posted by | 9:58 PM
When spring arrives in the Arctic, both snow and sea ice melt, forming melt ponds on the surface of the sea ice. Every year, as global ...

Poor outlook for biodiversity in Antarctica

Posted by | 9:57 PM
The popular view that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are in a much better environmental shape than the rest of the world has been br...

Scientists make new discovery about bird evolution

Posted by | 9:11 AM
In a new paper published in National Science Review , a team of scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthr...

Extreme weather events linked to climate change impact on the jet stream

Posted by | 9:11 AM
Unprecedented summer warmth and flooding, forest fires, drought and torrential rain -- extreme weather events are occurring more and mo...

Fairy circles of Namibia: New research helps scientists gain insight

Posted by | 9:06 AM
A study conducted by researchers at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis adds new insights into one of nature's great ...

Sea ice extent sinks to record lows at both poles

Posted by | 11:14 AM
Arctic sea ice appears to have reached on March 7 a record low wintertime maximum extent, according to scientists at NASA and the NASA-...

A 'carbon law' offers pathway to halve emissions every decade

Posted by | 11:14 AM
On the eve of this year's Earth hour (25 March), researchers propose a solution in the journal Science (24 March) for the global ec...