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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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Astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy ever
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Cambridge [US], April 20 (ANI): An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant astronomical object of all time: a galaxy. Shining only about 300 million years after the Big Bang, it may contain the oldest stars in the universe or a supermassive black hole.
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Rapidly descending dark energy leading to end of cosmic expansion: Study
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 6 (ANI): Researchers described a model of dark energy which suggests that the currently observed accelerated expansion of the universe could end as soon as 100 million years from now, at which point the universe would smoothly transition to a phase of slow contraction.
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Scientists discover mounds of ice in craters giving new insight into Mars'
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 1 (ANI): According to a recent study, newly discovered deposits of layered ice in craters scattered around Mars' southern hemisphere have provided insights into how the planet's orientation controlled its climate over the past 4 million years.
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Study examines last day of dinosaurs
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Uppsala [Sweden], February 28 (ANI): Dinosaurs have been extinct for over 65 million years and yet, questions still surround as to how massive creatures like them became extinct to such an extent that not even a trace of them is left now. Scientists have been pondering and researching this f
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First evidence indicating respiratory infection in dinosaurs discovered
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], February 19 (ANI): Scientists have discovered the first evidence of a unique respiratory infection in the fossilized remains of a dinosaur that lived nearly 150 million years ago.
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Researchers discover first evidence indicating respiratory infection in di
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Montana [US], February 15 (ANI): A group of researchers from around the country, including University of New Mexico Research Assistant Professor Ewan Wolff, have discovered the first evidence of a unique respiratory infection in the fossilized remains of a dinosaur that lived nearly 150 mill
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Research explores communication among fishes
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], January 29 (ANI): Fishes are far more likely to communicate using sound than generally believed and some of them have been doing this for at least 155 million years, recent research has found.
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Study examines how fishes communicate
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], January 28 (ANI): A new study has found that fishes are far more likely to communicate with sound than generally thought--and some fishes have been doing this for at least 155 million years.
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Consistent asteroid showers rock previous thinking on Mars craters: Study
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Perth [Australia], January 22 (ANI): A new research led by New Curtin University, confirmed that the frequency of asteroid collisions that formed impact craters on Mars, has been consistent over the past 600 million years.
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Cutting ammonia emissions is cost-effective way to prevent air pollution d
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Hangzhou [China], November 5 (ANI): An international study led by Chinese scientists has discovered using a modelling framework, including the IIASA GAINS model, that tackling pollution from the emission of nitrogen compounds, particularly ammonia, could reduce many of the 23.3 million years
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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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