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Embedded in the slab’s fine sandstone are delicate imprints: long toes ending in sharp claws, left by an animal that trotted ...
Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...
A report in the journal Nature estimates that the amniote tracks date to between 350 million and 359 million years ago.
The agency notes, "plant fossils suggest that the sea had retreated and Big Bend had become a drier floodplain environment." More than 80 species of plants and 20 dinosaur species have been ...
The earliest carnivorous plant fossils date back approximately 40 million years, though molecular evidence suggests the trait may have emerged much earlier. For the Giant Pitcher Plant specifically, ...
This insight enabled him to use trilobites and other fossils to constrain the position of the continents throughout time. He has died, aged 79. Fortey was born in Ealing in west London and ...
CLIMATEWIRE | President Donald Trump on Tuesday made an unprecedented peacetime intervention in the electricity sector, using executive orders to force aging coal-burning plants to stay open and ...
A new find puts back by 10 million years the colonisation of land by plants, and suggests that a diversity of land plants had evolved by 472 million years ago. DNA Web Team Updated : Mar 11, 2018, ...
India should aim to set up large-size methanol plants to reduce the import of fossil fuels, NITI Aayog member VK Saraswat said on Wednesday. Saraswat further said India's dependence on thermal power ...