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Research reveals how Earth got its ice caps
The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet’s history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research.
A team of scientists led by the University of Leeds…
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Does planetary evolution favor human-like life? Study ups odds we’re not alone
Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.
The model, which upends the decades-old “hard steps” theory that…
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Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell ‘woody,’ ‘spicy’ and ‘sweet’
Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell ‘woody,’ ‘spicy’ and ‘sweet’, finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and the University of Ljubljana, revealing new details about mumification practices.
The research, published in Journal of the…
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Evolution, evolution, evolution: How evolution got so good at evolving
The field of evolution examines how organisms adapt to their environments over generations, but what about the evolution of evolution itself?
Researchers have long questioned why biological populations are so good at exploiting their environments…
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Birds have developed complex brains independently from mammals
Two studies published in the latest issue of Science, led by Dr. Fernando García-Moreno, Ikerbasque researcher at the Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), along with collaborators, have…
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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 since 1750 — twice the number of animal species lost. But which species are hit hardest? And how does altered…
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Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida’s past
About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida’s Big Bend region and died. The sinkhole filled in with sediment over time, preserving the animals where they lay until fossil collectors Robert…
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Earliest short-tailed bird from the Late Jurassic of China
Rauhut, O. W. M. & Foth, C. in The Evolution of Feathers: From Their Origin to the Present (eds Foth, C. & Rauhut, O. W. M.) 27–45 (Springer, 2020).
Lloyd, G. T., Bapst, D. W., Friedman, M. & Davis, K. E. Probabilistic divergence time estimation…
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The lost long tail of early bird evolution
The lost long tail of early bird evolution
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