A team of paleontologists from the University of Zurich headed by Professor Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra announced the discovery of a new fish fossil and species that presents a never before seen evolutionary method of elongation of the spine in...

Researchers from the University of Exeter, Newcastle University, the University of Bristol, the University of Edinburgh, the British Antarctic Survey, and the University of York reported the discovery of huge ice channels beneath the floating ice shelf in Antarctica on...

An oil pipeline operation from Tourmaline Oil Corporation unearthed an almost perfect hadrosaur spine near the town of Spirit River in Alberta, Canada according to a report published in the Oct. 3, 2013, edition of the Edmonton Journal.The equipment...

Erich Fitzgerald, Senior Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museum Victoria, announced the discovery of the most complete fossilized remains of a Diprotodontid marsupial ever found near Sorrento in the Mornington Peninsula National Park of Australia in the Oct. 2...

Peter Hochuli and Susanne Feist-Burkhardt from the University of Zürich announced their discovery of the oldest known flowering plants ever found in the world in the Oct. 1, 2013 issue of the journal Frontiers in Plant Science.Two...

Australian biologists and ancient DNA experts reported the discovery of the diets and habitats of four species of the extinct New Zealand moa from coprolites (fossilized feces) in the Sept. 30, 2013, edition of the journal Proceedings of the National...

Donald E. Canfield of the Nordic Center for Earth Evolution at the Institute of Biology at the University of Southern Denmark and eight of France’s top geologists and geochemists have proposed a new explanation of the variability of...

A new and simple method to predict fishery collapse and potentially avoid food fish industry damage was presented by Matt Burgess, Stephen Polasky, and David Tilman from the University of Minnesota in the Sept. 16, 2013, edition of the journal...

A new model of the Earth’s core developed by Dr. Philip Livermore of the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds and colleagues using the supercomputer Monte Rosa, part of the Swiss National Supercomputing...

Jefferson Hall, a scientist with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and colleagues from Princeton University, Wageningen University, the University of Copenhagen, and Yale University are the first to report that tropical trees take the responsibility to recover themselves and the...