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an International Team Has Analysed Jurassic Arthropod-Plant Interactions
Feb 27, 2014An international team has analysed Jurassic arthropod-plant interactions from the Australian fossil record. Fossilised plants were inspected for insect 'bite marks' to determine insect-plant relationships during the Jurassic era. "We've ...
Tags: Interaction, Fossil Record, Carboniferous, Jurassic
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DOS Reis Et Al Maintain That Placental Mammals Came Before The Demise of The Dinosaurs
Jan 15, 2014A team of researchers from the U.K. (led by Mario dos Reis) is directly challenging the results of a study conducted by another team (led by Maureen O'Leary) that concluded last year that placental mammals came to exist after the demise of ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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In South America Found Numerous Fossilized
Jan 10, 2014Today in Australia they call it Kauri, in Asia they call it Dammar, and in South America it does not exist at all unless planted there; but 52 million years ago the giant coniferous evergreen tree known to botanists as Agathis thrived in ...
Tags: Kauri, Dammar, Agathis, coniferous evergreen tree
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A New Species of Big Cat That Is Most Closely Related to The Modern Day Snow Leopard
Jan 9, 2014After years of sleuthing for clues about where and when pantherine felids ("big cats") originated, a Smithsonian scientist and an international team of researchers are one step closer to understanding the evolutionary history of these ...
Tags: pantherine felids, big cats, Smithsonian scientist, evolutionary history