January 4, 2017 280 million - year -
old fossil reveals origins of chimaeroid fishes High - definition CT scans of the fossilized skull of a 280 million - year - old fish reveal the origin of chimaeras, a group of cartilaginous fish related to sharks, and allow scientists to firmly anchor them in evolutionary history.
May 22, 2017 3.3 million - year -
old fossil reveals origins of the human spine Analysis of a 3.3 million - year - old fossil skeleton reveals the most complete spinal column of any early human relative, enabling efficient walking motions millions of years earlier than previously thought.
Not exact matches
Ancient
fossils reveal the story of Earth, but can the
oldest stars in the cosmos tell the story of the universe?
A 36 - million - year -
old fossil skeleton is
revealing a critical moment in the history of baleen whales: what happened when the ancestors of these modern - day filter feeders first began to distinguish themselves from their toothy, predatory predecessors.
Stratigraphic analysis of the find locality
reveals that the
fossil is the
oldest known representative of the genus Archaeopteryx.
As the researchers sifted through the soil, the magnitude of the find slowly became clear: The canyon
revealed a trove of thousands of animal and plant
fossils that were more than 1.4 million years
old.
Fossils from Spain's «pit of bones «have yielded 430,000 - year -
old nuclear DNA that
reveals Neanderthals in the making - and the need for a rethink over our origins
«These spectacular
fossils reveal that Agathis is
old and had a huge range that no one knew about — from Australia to South America across Antarctica,» said Peter Wilf, professor of geoscience, Penn State.
«
Fossils from the world's
oldest trees
reveal complex anatomy never seen before: Intricate web of woody strands inside 374 - million - year -
old tree trunks point to most complicated trees to have ever grown on Earth.»
Fossils from a 374 - million - year -
old tree found in north - west China have
revealed an interconnected web of woody strands within the trunk of the tree that is much more intricate than that of the trees we see around us today.
But new genetic analyses of a 14,000 - year -
old fossil from an Argentine museum
reveal that these ancient herbivores (artist's concept, above) weren't the distant kin of today's Texas roadkill.
A new
fossil from the mid-Paleocene of New Zealand
reveals an unexpected diversity of world's
oldest penguins, The Science of Nature.
August 15, 2013 Earliest complete
fossil from major group of ancient mammal discovered Flexible ankles and versatile ridged teeth were the key adaptations that allowed mutituberculates to become the most successful group of ancient mammals, as
revealed with the discovery of a 160 million - year -
old fossil — the earliest known complete skeleton of a multituberculate.
A new study of 565 million - year -
old fossils has identified how some of the first complex organisms on Earth — possibly some of the first animals to exist — reproduced,
revealing the origins of our modern marine environment.
The discovery of one of the
oldest penguin
fossils in the world
reveals higher diversity of early penguins than previously assumed.
For more, see: A new
fossil from the mid-Paleocene of New Zealand
reveals an unexpected diversity of world's
oldest penguins in The Science of Nature.
Another post of an
older article (mentions land bridges) METHANE AND MINI-HORSES:
FOSSILS REVEAL EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING February 16, 2003 How will global
Fossil's announcement at Baselworld is a mix of both,
revealing new styles for
old models as well as new smartwatches to fill this year's roster.