Giant, Ancient Life Form Doesn’t Fit Into Any Known Branch of Life
Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but new a new study suggests it ...
Cruciferous plants' pungent defense mechanism: How repurposed stomatal genes also fend off herbivores
Throughout evolution, plants have continuously adapted to survive in changing environments. Apart from complex structural ...
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The First Giant Land Organism May Require A New Branch On The Tree Of Life
Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, ...
Scientists: Giant Organism May Have Been A Previously Unknown Life-Form
Prototaxites, the first giant organism to live on land, have long been thought to have been some sort of plant, fungus or algae. Now, a new research paper ...
Ruby red cows and wildflowers lead the charge in groundbreaking green scheme
Ruby Red Devon cattle, managed by farmers Toby Diggens and Bella Lowes, are being used to naturally graze the land.
First fossil hyena tracks found in South Africa – how expert animal trackers helped
Animal trackers using traditional skills helped to find and identify fossil tracks on the coast of South Africa.
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In the Great Plains, Landowners Are Banking On the Lesser Prairie-Chicken’s Survival
The best bet to save the imperiled species may be a system that pays farmers and ranchers to protect its grassland home.
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Oklahoma's state fossil is known as an enormous carnivorous dinosaur. Did it ever exist?
Originally thought to belong to a meat-eating giant, Stovall informally gave it a name later corrected to “Saurophaganax ...
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Researchers sound alarm over increased number of disease-carrying insects: 'This is a major concern'
The study found that the number of spiders, mites, and ticks was influenced by whether domestic or wild grazers were on the ...
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World’s oldest known cerapodan dinosaur discovered in Morocco
Cerapodan body fossils, however, have been harder to come by. For some time, the oldest example was a 164-million-year-old ...
A Man Went Deer Hunting and Accidentally Stumbled Upon the Tusk of a Mammoth
A hunter on a former 272,000-acre West Texas cattle ranch stumbled upon a fossilized mammoth tusk. The ranch manager was ...