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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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Birds, mammals evolve faster where land has risen most: Study
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], September 5 (ANI): A new study has found that the rise and fall of Earth's land surface over the last three million years shaped the evolution of birds and mammals, with new species evolving at higher rates where the land has risen most.
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How arrival of land plants affected Earth's climate control system
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], July 18 (ANI): Researchers at UCL and Yale suggest that the arrival of plants on the land about 400 million years ago might have changed the way the Earth naturally regulates its own climate.
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Palaeolithic site, possibly largest in Indian subcontinent, spotted in Far
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Faridabad (Haryana) [India], July 18 (ANI): A prehistoric stone age site, possibly over a million years old, has been found in the Mangarbani hill forest in Haryana's Faridabad.
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Earth's climate control system got changed due to arrival of land plants:
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], July 16 (ANI): According to the findings of a new study led by researchers at UCL and Yale, the arrival of plants on the land about 400 million years ago might have changed the way the Earth naturally regulates its own climate.
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Footprints from 6 dinosaur species discovered in UK's Kent
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], June 21 (ANI): Footprints from at least six different species of dinosaurs, the very last dinosaurs to walk on the UK soil 110 million years ago, have been found in Kent, a new report has announced.
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Prehistoric teeth analysis sheds light on diets of lizards and snakes
Updated : 5 years ago IST
London [UK], March 3 (ANI): New research led by scientists from the University of Bristol has revealed that the diets of early lizards and snakes, which lived alongside dinosaurs around 100 million years ago, were more varied and advanced than previously thought.
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Fossil pigments shed new light on vertebrate evolution
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 4 (ANI): UCC palaeontologists have discovered new evidence that the fate of vertebrate animals over the last 400 million years has been shaped by microscopic melanin pigments.
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Large shift on Europa was last event to fracture its surface
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Texas [USA], August 21 (ANI): Europa's outer icy shell has completely reoriented itself in one of the last geologic events recorded on its young surface. Europa's poles are not where they used to be. Cracks in the surface of Jupiter's icy moon indicate its shell of ice rotated by 70 degrees
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One should never give up on dreams, says Jamie Vardy after winning Golden
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 28 (ANI): Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy said that he never in a 'million years' would have thought that he would win the Premier League Golden Boot award.
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Scientists trace origin of our teeth from most primitive jawed fish
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], July 10 (ANI): According to an International team of scientists, the origin of our teeth goes back more than 400 million years back in time, to the period when strange armoured fish first developed jaws and began to catch live prey.
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Luminous galaxy reionizing surroundings 13 billion years ago
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Leiden [Netherlands], July 2 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered a luminous galaxy caught in the act of reionizing its surrounding gas only 800 million years after the Big Bang.
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