
This page is a summary of Worldwide Fossil and Geology news. We will update this page regularly. Please see the links below to articles of interest.
30
Apr
2013
at 12:36 PM
First snapshot of organisms eating each other: Feast clue to smell of ancient Earth
Tiny 1,900-million-year-old fossils from rocks around Lake Superior, Canada, give the first ever snapshot of organisms eating each other and suggest what the ancient Earth would have smelled like.
18
Apr
2013
at 18:36 PM
Dinosaur egg study supports evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs: How Troodon likely hatched its young
A small, bird-like North American dinosaur incubated its eggs in a similar way to brooding birds — bolstering the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs, researchers have found.
09
Apr
2013
at 9:39 AM
New Evidence that Chinese Dinosaurs Could Paddle Long distances.
Researchers believe that they have found evidence in China that some dinosaurs could paddle quite long distances from marks made in an 100million year old deposit
05
Apr
2013
at 17:07 PM
How Life May Have First Emerged On Earth: Foldable Proteins in a High-Salt Environment
Scientist in America have discovered that 10 Amino acids thought to exist in our oceans about 4 billion years ago could have formed folding proeins in a very salty environment
05
Apr
2013
at 7:48 AM
Dwarf Whale Survived Well Into Ice Age
The fossil of a dwarf baleen whale known from the Pliocene (3myo) has been found in 700,000 year old deposits in California, showing that it survived much longer than previously thought.
05
Apr
2013
at 7:37 AM
Origin of Life: Power Behind Primordial Soup Discovered
Scientist at Leeds Univeity (UK) have found a chemical similar to one found in all living things and essential to life creating energy in living cells may have been synthesised from meteorites
03
Apr
2013
at 7:33 AM
Icelandic Volcano - New research Findings
Researchers at 2 UK univesities have found that a new type of magma within Icelandic volcanos could cause serious disruption.
19
Mar
2013
at 15:08 PM
New Isle of Wight Pterosaur Named after Young Finder.
A new Pterosaur the size of a crow has been written and published. It’s finder, Daisy Morris (then 9 years old) found the bones in 2008 and donateted them to the NHM. The Pterosaur has been named after her- Vectidraco daisymorrisae,
16
Mar
2013
at 11:44 AM
Dorset Cliff Danger.
150ft (45m) long, 6ft (1.8m) deep crack appeared on cliffs near Bowleaze Cove, Weymouth.
14
Mar
2013
at 21:58 PM
New speccies of 5 million yo saber toothed cat found in Florida
A new genus and species of extinct saber-toothed cat has been discovered in Polk County, Florida. The 5-million-year-old fossils belong to the same lineage as the famous Smilodon fatalis...
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