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Newly uncovered wooden tools from Pleistocene China reveal complex, plant-focused technology far earlier than expected in East Asia. Researchers working at the Pleistocene-era Gantangqing site in ...
Buried for 209 million years, a tiny flying reptile and its ancient neighbors just emerged from Arizona’s Triassic past.
The water-soluble wood tar extract induced a higher cell death than the organic-soluble wood tar extract by both apoptosis and necrosis. Apoptosis was also confirmed by the transcription levels of ...
For solar development to be part of “a true and just energy transition by reducing and, in turn, replacing fossil fuels,” then it cannot remain bound by the rules set by and designed solely for fossil ...
One of our researchers, Dr Imran Rahman, has been focused on understanding the early evolution of echinoderms. He was involved in studying the new fossils and using it to recreate the evolutionary ...
Indonesian researchers have discovered fossils of a prehistoric elephant in Central Java, which they estimate are around 500,000 years old, Azernews reports, citing Arab News. The fossils were found ...
A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head.
Marine brachiopod fossils found among Roman artifacts on Morocco’s Mogador Island predate the island itself and may have ended up there via ancient trade networks.
For any given fossil ant or beetle, we can imagine all of the parasites, fungus, and bacteria that such insects support,” Barden, who wasn’t involved in the new study, said via email.