A new study published today in the journal Gondwana Research, has revealed the past position of the Australian, Antarctic and Indian tectonic plates, demonstrating how they formed the supercontinent Gondwana 165 million years ago. Researchers from Royal Holloway University, The Australian National University and Geoscience Australia, have helped clear up previous uncertainties on how the […]
Archive for July, 2013
New Evidence for Warm-Blooded Dinosaurs
July 29th, 2013 
Riffin University of Adelaide research has shown new evidence that dinosaurs were warm-blooded like birds and mammals, not cold-blooded like reptiles as commonly believed. In a paper published in PLoS ONE, Professor Roger Seymour of the University’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, argues that cold-blooded dinosaurs would not have had the required muscular power to […]
Fossil Shows Fish Had Sucker On Its Back
July 28th, 2013 Riffin A 30 million year-old fossil has revealed how remoras — also called sharksuckers — evolved the sucker that enables them to stick to other fishes and ‘hitch a ride’. Previous evidence, such as the segmented structure of the sucker and how it develops in a similar way to fins in normal fish, led scientists to […]
Devastating Long-Distance Impact of Earthquakes
July 25th, 2013 Riffin In 2006 the island of Java, Indonesia was struck by a devastating earthquake followed by the onset of a mud eruption to the east, flooding villages over several square kilometers and that continues to erupt today. Until now, researchers believed the earthquake was too far from the mud volcano to trigger the eruption. Geophysicists at […]
Parent Dinosaurs Shared the Work
July 24th, 2013 Riffin A study into the brooding behaviour of birds has revealed their dinosaur ancestors shared the load when it came to incubation of eggs. Research into the incubation behaviour of birds suggests the type of parental care carried out by their long extinct ancestors. The study aimed to test the hypothesis that data from extant birds […]
Greening of the Earth Pushed Way Back in Time
July 23rd, 2013 Riffin Conventional scientific wisdom has it that plants and other creatures have only lived on land for about 500 million years, and that landscapes of the early Earth were as barren as Mars. A new study, led by geologist Gregory J. Retallack of the University of Oregon, now has presented evidence for life on land that […]
Evidence for Avian Intrathoracic Air Sacs in a New Predatory Dinosaur from Argentina
July 22nd, 2013 Riffin Background Living birds possess a unique heterogeneous pulmonary system composed of a rigid, dorsally-anchored lung and several compliant air sacs that operate as bellows, driving inspired air through the lung. Evidence from the fossil record for the origin and evolution of this system is extremely limited, because lungs do not fossilize and because the bellow-like […]
Geothermal Power Facility Induces Earthquakes, Study Finds
July 21st, 2013 Riffin An analysis of earthquakes in the area around the Salton Sea Geothermal Field in southern California has found a strong correlation between seismic activity and operations for production of geothermal power, which involve pumping water into and out of an underground reservoir. “We show that the earthquake rate in the Salton Sea tracks a combination […]
Some Volcanoes ‘Scream’ at Ever Higher Pitches Until They Blow Their Tops
July 20th, 2013 Riffin It is not unusual for swarms of small earthquakes to precede a volcanic eruption. They can reach a point of such rapid succession that they create a signal called harmonic tremor that resembles sound made by various types of musical instruments, though at frequencies much lower than humans can hear. A new analysis of an […]
Rare Fossils Found On Brisbane Building Site
July 19th, 2013 Riffin Australian builders have uncovered a rare trove of crocodile, frog, fish and plant fossils, in what could be a world-first. The fossils relate to the period after dinosaurs died out. Pic: tenNews The fossils, trapped in a layer of oil shale, were found during excavation works near Brisbane’s Geebung railway station at a depth of […]
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