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Fossil site reveals giant arthropods dominated seas 470 million years ago
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Discoveries at a major new fossil site in Morocco suggest giant arthropods - relatives of modern creatures including shrimps, insects and spiders - dominated the seas 470 million years ago. Early evidence from the site at Taichoute, once undersea but now a desert, records numerous large "fre
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Did you know ancient amphibians had their bones cooked?
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Scientists have solved a decades-long mystery as to why ancient tetrapods - amphibian-like creatures that lived over 300 million years ago - preserved in one of Ireland's most important fossil sites seemingly had their bones cooked after they died.
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Study: Synchronized neural oscillations induce empathic behaviour in brain
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The underlying neurological mechanism that enables humans to feel empathy has been identified by researchers. Empathy is brought on by synchronised neuronal oscillations in the right hemisphere of the brain, which enables the creatures to sense and share each other's dread.
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Ancient superpredator got big by front-loading its growth in its youth: St
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Whatcheeria, a six-foot-long salamander-like creature that lived 340 million years ago, was the T. rex of its time: the biggest, baddest predator in its habitat. A new study reveals how they grew to their "giant" size: instead of growing slow and steady throughout their lives like many moder
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525-million-year-old fossil contradicts textbook theory of brain evolution
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to a new study, fossils of a tiny sea creature with a delicately preserved nervous system solve a century-old debate over how the brain evolved in arthropods, the most species-rich group in the animal kingdom. Combining detailed anatomical studies of the fossilized nervous syste
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Half-a-billion year old fossilised brain of sea creature defies textbook e
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to a new study, fossils of a tiny sea creature with a delicately preserved nervous system solve a century-old debate over how the brain evolved in arthropods, the most species-rich group in the animal kingdom. Combining detailed anatomical studies of the fossilized nervous system w
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Research helps to resolve evolutionary origins of the 'platypus of fungi'
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
About 600 seemingly disparate fungi that never quite found a fit along the fungal family tree has been shown to have a common ancestor, according to a University of Alberta-led research team that used genome sequencing to give these peculiar creatures their own classification home.
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Study reveals how insects contribute to atmospheric electricity
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
As with most living creatures, bees carry an innate electric charge. Having found that honeybee hive swarms change the atmospheric electricity by 100 to 1,000 volts per meter, increasing the electric field force normally experienced at ground level, the team developed a model that can predic
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Avoiding extinction: Asian animals found to be thriving near humans
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Queensland [Australia], October 24 (ANI): According to a University of Queensland-led study, some of Asia's largest creatures, like tigers and elephants, are living with people despite trends toward extinction that date back 12,000 years.
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Life on other planets or space creatures narrowed down
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California [US], October 21 (ANI): The most prevalent type of star in the universe, the M dwarf, has an Earth-like planet orbiting it that appears to have no atmosphere at all. This discovery could cause a major shift in the search for life on other planets.
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Young woman achiever Aaliya Mir known for wildlife conservation in Kashmir
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Jammu and Kashmir [India], October 12 (ANI): Aaliya Mir, a resident of Bagh-i-mehtaab Srinagar, is a young woman achiever who is known for her wildlife conservation efforts in Kashmir.
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Scientists discover how fish survive extreme pressures of life in oceans
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 2 (ANI): Scientists have discovered how a chemical in the cells of marine organisms enables them to survive the high pressures found in the deep oceans.
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