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Linking fossil climate proxies to living bacteria helps climate prediction
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Microbial skins are made out of lipids - fatty molecules - which can be preserved as fossils telling us stories about how these microbes lived in the past.
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Did you know ancient amphibians had their bones cooked?
Updated : 3 years, 5 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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525-million-year-old fossil contradicts textbook theory of brain evolution
Updated : 3 years, 6 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, 6 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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Shraddha murder case: Aftab Poonawalla goes through polygraph tests at FSL
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Aaftab is accused of strangling Shraddha, his live-in partner, to death and chopping her body into 35 pieces. He is also alleged to have preserved the chopped body parts in a refrigerator before dumping them in the forests of south Delhi's Chhatarpur.
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No need of sedatives to study brain in resting state, suggests study
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
According to the study, which was published in the article 'Effect of sedatives or anesthetics on the measurement of resting brain function in common marmosets', the team studied seven drugs and identified choices which preserved normal function while minimizing motion.
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Kashi Tamil Sangamam reflects centuries-old bond of ancient civilisational
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
All elements of Indian culture are equally preserved in Kashi and Tamil Nadu and the Kashi Tamil Sangamam is making us witness centuries-old bond of knowledge and ancient civilisational linkage between the North and the South, said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as Prime Minist
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500 million-year-old fossils unearth answers to many evolutionary riddles
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
An exceptionally well-preserved collection of fossils discovered in eastern Yunnan Province, China, has enabled scientists to solve a centuries-old riddle in the evolution of life on earth, revealing what the first animals to make skeletons looked like.
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Study: Fossil bird's skull reconstruction reveals brain made for smelling
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Jeholornis was a raven-sized bird that lived 120 million years ago, among the earliest examples of dinosaurs evolving into birds, in what's now China. The fossils that have been found are finely preserved but smashed flat, the result of layers of sediment being deposited over the years. That
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Postage stamps connect us with past, help preserve history: UP CM Yogi Adi
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 15 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh's rich cultural and spiritual traditions need to be preserved through postage stamps and 'special covers' issued by the Postal department so that the next generation can be taught about it more easily and broadly, said Chief Mi
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Primordial armored worm Wufengella reveals ancestry of three animal groups
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 28 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that a well-preserved fossilized worm dating from 518 million years ago resembles the ancestor of three major groups of living animals.
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Fossil algae dating back 541 million years offer new insights into the pla
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 24 (ANI): Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of algae called Protocodium sinense which predates the origin of land plants and modern animals and provides new insight into the early diversification of the plant kingdom. Discovered at a site in C
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