New research led by the University of Sydney adds to our understanding of how rapidly rising sea levels due to climate change foreshadow the end of the Great Barrier Reef as we know it.
The findings suggest the reef can withstand rising sea…
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Researchers recreate ancient Egyptian blues
A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world’s oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago.
Reporting in the journal, NPJ Heritage Science, the researchers…
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Paleontologists Discover Previously Unknown Connective Tissue Structure in Dinosaurs
Paleontologists have found evidence of a previously unrecognized soft tissue structure in the cheek region of many dinosaur species, which they’ve called the exoparia. The finding deepens our understanding of dinosaur anatomy and highlights…
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73-Million-Year-Old Fossils Provide Oldest Evidence of Birds Nesting at Polar Latitudes
Polar ecosystems are structured and enriched by birds, which nest there seasonally and serve as keystone ecosystem members. Despite the ecological importance of polar birds, the origins of high-latitude nesting remain obscured by a sparse…
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Continuous presence of dinosauromorphs in South America throughout the Middle to the Late Triassic
Ferigolo, J. & Langer, M. C. A late triassic dinosauriform from South Brazil and the origin of the ornithischian predentary bone. Hist. Biol. 19(1), 23–33 (2007).
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Regional restructuring in planktic foraminifera communities through Pliocene-early Pleistocene climate variability
Benedetti, F. et al. Major restructuring of marine plankton assemblages under global warming. Nat. Commun. 12, 5226 (2021).
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Birds nested in Arctic alongside dinosaurs
Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.
The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a paper featured on the cover of this week’s edition of the journal…
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Rock record illuminates oxygen history
Several key moments in Earth’s history help us humans answer the question, “How did we get here?” These moments also shed light on the question, “Where are we going”? — offering scientists deeper insight into how organisms adapt to physical and…
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New method provides the key to accessing proteins in ancient human remains
A new method developed by researchers at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, could soon unlock the vast repository of biological information held in the proteins of ancient soft tissues. The findings, which could open up a…
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A sweeping study of 7,000 years of monuments in South Arabia
New research brings together 7,000 years of history in South Arabia to show how ancient pastoralists changed placement and construction of monuments over time in the face of environmental and cultural forces.
In a study published today (May 28,…
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