A Curtin University-led report has revealed that Western Australia (WA) consumes more than three times the global average of raw materials and must change its economy to reduce waste and pollution ...
Trace fossils, which are the preserved evidence of biological activity, provide valuable insights into ancient environments and the behaviors of organisms that inhabited them. Recent research has ...
An amateur fossil hunter in Denmark uncovers a 66-million-year-old pile of fish vomit, offering new insights into the Cretaceous period's marine food chain.
The fossil offers new insight into the transition of single celled organisms to complex, multicellular animals. Modern single-celled holozoa include the most basal living animals and the fossil ...
The work could have implications for how aquatic species respond to our ... Discovery of 'Punk' and 'Emo' Fossils Challenges Our Understanding of Ancient Molluscs Jan. 8, 2025 — Researchers have ...
Jan. 27, 2025 — Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that a house in England is the site of a lost residence of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, and shown in the Bayeux Tapestry ...
Artist's depiction of a 'Snowball Earth' completely frozen, with no liquid water on the surface. An in-depth analysis of marine eukaryotic fossils, organisms whose cells contain a nucleus, has ...
When scientists first uncovered these fossils in 1843, they didn’t know what to make of them. Initially, they described the organism as a cone-bearing plant in 1859. “It was a very strange and ...
A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of ... abundance of biomineralizing organisms at this time.
They studied fossils representing ancestral Scalidophorans from the early Cambrian-age Kuanchuanpu Biota and Chengjiang Biota, as well as Ottoia prolifica (an ancient priapulid-like worm); the ...
Amino acids are the building blocks that make up protein sequences in living organisms. But this wasn’t just any eggshell; it was a fossil from a titanosaur, a giant herbivorous dinosaur that ...