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Study discovers brain evolution of lungfishes
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Adelaide [Australia], July 20 (ANI): With the help of research on ancient lungfish fossils, which filled in a gap in the history of land-living, four-legged creatures on earth, the evolution of the brain and nervous system in animals has been rewinded by more than 400 million years.
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Study: Burrowing animals to recover after largest mass extinction
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Bristol [UK], July 19 (ANI): Burrowing animals were among the first to recover after the end-Permian mass extinction, according to researchers investigating ancient sea bed traces and burrows.
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New fossil discovery from Central India throws light on the reproductive b
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Dhar (Madhya Pradesh) [India], June 13 (ANI): A team of Indian researchers, for the first time in the fossil history, has discovered an egg-in-egg or abnormal titanosaurid dinosaur egg from the Bagh area in Dhar District, Madhya Pradesh state (Central India).
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India Book of Records achieves better than ever before
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 21 (ANI/NewsVoir): India Book of Records is popular amongst its regular achievers and record-breakers, those involved in a number of attempts that promote the company's presence in the record making world.
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J-K: Seven new fossil sites discovered in South Kashmir
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Anantnag (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 14 (ANI): Several months after a fossil site was discovered in the Aharbal area of Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam, around seven new fossil sites have been discovered in South Kashmir.
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NASA, ULA launch Lucy mission to 'fossils' of planet formation
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 16 (ANI): NASA's Lucy mission, the agency's first to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, launched at 5:34 a.m. EDT Saturday on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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Prehistoric primates had a sweet tooth: Study
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [UK], September 18 (ANI): Dental fossils belonging to a species of prehistoric primate, Microsyops latidens, which date to the early Eocene, around 54 million years ago, display the earliest known evidence of dental caries in mammals, according to a recent study.
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Researchers find prehistoric primates had sweet tooth
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 13 (ANI): During a recent study, scientists found dental fossils belonging to a species of prehistoric primate, Microsyops latidens, which dates back to the early eocene (around 54 million years ago), display the earliest known evidence of dental caries in mammals.
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SAKSHAM Cyclothon 2021 organised in Karnataka to promote 'clean, green ene
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kalaburagi (Karnataka) [India], January 31 (ANI): Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Limited and Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) on Sunday organised SAKSHAM Cyclothon 2021 here in Kalaburagi to spread awareness to support the conservation of fossils, as it is a non-renewable resource
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NASA's new Mars Rover will use x-rays to hunt fossils
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has a challenging road ahead: after having to make it through the harrowing entry, descent, and landing phase of the mission on February 18, 2021, it will begin searching for traces of microscopic life from billions of
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Scientists resurrect mutated genes from a mammoth
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [USA], Feb 7 (ANI): In a recent development in the field of paleontology scientists have resurrected the mutated genes of a mammoth that once resided in the Wrangel Island, a remote Arctic refuge off the coast of Siberia.
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Tiny T. Rex not from separate genus, they were actually kids, reveals bone
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Illinois [USA], Jan 2 (ANI): What were once thought to be the fossils of a separate and smaller genus of the Tyrannosaurus Rex turned out to be the remains of juveniles of their kind. Analysis of thin slices of bone from two fossil specimens at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Illinoi
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