14-09-26 A Virginia Tech geobiologist with collaborators from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found evidence in the fossil record that complex multicellularity appeared in living things about 600 million years ago -- nearly 60 million years before skele...

14-05-14 Fifty-million-year-old fossil beetles that fed only on palm seeds are giving Simon Fraser University biologists Bruce Archibald and Rolf Mathewes new information about ancient climates. According to their research, published online this week in The...

14-04-14 The European Union must do more to lead worldwide efforts to limit climate change, the UK government has said. 英国政府称，欧盟必须做出更多行动以引领世界努力阻止气候变化。 Speaking after the UN urged moving from fossil fuels to renewable sources, Cl...

14-04-14 Stunning images of a 305-million-year-old harvestman fossil reveal ancestors of the modern-day arachnids（蛛形类） had two sets of eyes rather than one. The researchers say their findings, published in the journal Current Biology, add significant de...

14-03-20 An ancient stick insect（竹节虫） species may have mimicked plant leaves for defense, according to a paper published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on March 19, 2014 by Maomin Wang, from Capital Normal University, China and colleagues. Many ins...

14-02-14 An ichthyosaur（鱼龙） fossil may show the earliest live birth from an ancient Mesozoic marine reptile, according to a study published February 12, 2014 in PLOS ONE by Ryosuke Motani from the University of California, Davis, and colleagues. Ichthyos...

14-02-13 A team of French and Swedish researchers have presented new fossil evidence for the origin of one of the most important and emotionally significant parts of our anatomy（解剖学） : the face. Using micron resolution X-ray imaging, they show how a ser...

14-01-14 Members of the public have a negative view of climate engineering, the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the environment to counteract climate change, according to a new study. The results are from researchers from the University of Southampton...

14-01-08 Dinosaur fossils are exceptionally rare in the Arabian Peninsula. An international team of scientists from Uppsala University, Museum Victoria, Monash University, and the Saudi Geological Survey have now uncovered the first record of dinosaurs from...

13-11-21 Data from computed tomography (CT) scans can be used with three-dimensional (3-D) printers to make accurate copies of fossilized bones, according to new research published online in the journal Radiology. Fossils are often stored in plaster casts, o...