Articles Posted in the Fossils – Ruins Category
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Tiny Tyrannosaur: T. Rex Body Plan Debuted In Raptorex, But 100th The Size
A 9-foot dinosaur from northeastern China had evolved all the hallmark anatomical features of Tyrannosaurus rex at least 125 million years ago. University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and five co-authors describe the newly discovered…
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Fungus-treated Violin Outdoes Stradivarius
At the 27th “Osnabrücker Baumpflegetagen” (one of Germany’s most important annual conferences on all aspects of forest husbandry), Empa researcher Francis Schwarze’s “biotech violin” dared to go head to head in a blind test against…
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Study Of Flower Color Shows Evolution In Action
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have zeroed in on the genes responsible for changing flower color, an area of research that began with Gregor Mendel’s studies of the garden pea in the 1850′s. In an…
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High Arctic Mammals Wintered In Darkness 53 Million Years Ago
Ancestors of tapirs and ancient cousins of rhinos living above the Arctic Circle 53 million years ago endured six months of darkness each year in a far milder climate than today that featured lush, swampy…
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Researchers find origin of ‘breathable’ atmosphere half a billion years ago
Ohio State University geologists and their colleagues have uncovered evidence of when Earth may have first supported an oxygen-rich atmosphere similar to the one we breathe today.The study suggests that upheavals in the earth’s crust…
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Giant Red Spinel Crystal Discovered in East Africa
An enormous red spinel crystal weighing over 52 kgs may be the largest red spinel ever unearthed. A significant number of stones ranging in weights between 5 and 30 carats have already been faceted and…
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Giant Red Spinel Crystal Discovered in East Africa
An enormous red spinel crystal weighing over 52 kgs may be the largest red spinel ever unearthed. A significant number of stones ranging in weights between 5 and 30 carats have already been faceted and…
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Census Of Protein Architectures Offers New View Of History Of Life
The present can tell you a lot about the past, but you need to know where to look. A new study appearing this month in Genome Research reveals that protein architectures – the three-dimensional structures…
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Ancients Engineered Sophisticated Machines
Move over, Archimedes. A researcher at Harvard University is finding that ancient Greek craftsmen were able to engineer sophisticated machines without necessarily understanding the mathematical theory behind their construction. Recent analysis of technical treatises and…