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Renewable energy is surpassing fossil fuels for the first time in new power-plant investments, shaking off setbacks from the financial crisis and an impasse at the United Nations global warming talks. (latimes.com)
The zeal to replace fossil fuels, which take millions of years to form from dead organic matter, belies the failed efforts at the UN talks to broker a deal that would limit carbon dioxide emissions from coal and oil blamed for global warming. (latimes.com)
You can become the champion of change and make sure we phase out fossil fuels immediately. (wlns.com)
Al-Jaber, who is also chief executive of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, has resisted calls for an end to fossil fuels. (wlns.com)
The phasedown of fossil fuels is inevitable," he said, going further than countries agreed in Glasgow two years ago when the focus was coal, but still stopping short of advocating a complete ban. (wlns.com)
The goal should be a global energy system "free of unabated fossil fuels," he said. (wlns.com)
The term abated refers to measures taken to reduce or capture greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, an idea that experts say is technically challenging and very expensive. (wlns.com)
Inside, activists dropped a huge banner that read "End Fossil Fuels. (wlns.com)
To phase out or phase down fossil fuels? (valleycentral.com)
In a post-carbon economy, less fossil fuels imports, such as oil and natural gas, will be required. (ibei.org)
Less demand for fossil fuels can severely reduce the state revenues of fossil fuel rich countries. (ibei.org)
And third, and finally, to understand how current EU policies with respect to the MENA region can influence this relationship between decreasing demand for fossil fuels and political stability. (ibei.org)
Data analysis of the UN's provisional list of named attendees by Corporate Accountability, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), Glasgow Calls Out Polluters and Global Witness, reveals the scale at which corporate actors with a stake in the continued burning of fossil fuels have been enjoying access to these critical talks. (globalwitness.org)
In times of runaway climate change, phasing out fossil fuels and increasing the share of renewables is imperative. (lu.se)
The long-term alternatives to fossil energy that have been discussed since the early 1970s are advanced energy efficient vehicles in combination with either biofuels in various forms or renewable electricity or hydrogen as fuels. (lu.se)
Scientific network blog on the perspectives on technological change and energy transitions focused around feasibility of global transitions, speed of technological change, expansion of nuclear and renewable power and phase-out of fossil fuels. (lu.se)
Finding alternative ways of producing, storing and transforming energy in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels is necessary to reduce the impact on the climate. (lu.se)
The adoption of sustainable and renewable energy sources to permanently move beyond the dependence on fossil fuels constitutes one of the great challenges of our time. (lu.se)
Is there a way to produce liquid fuels in an efficient and sustainable manner, one that does not rely on fossil sources? (lu.se)

Researchers in Chile have unearthed fossils of four dinosaurs never found in the region before. (bgr.com)
These new fossils include two species of birds, as well as two velociraptor-like dinosaurs. (bgr.com)
The new Norwegian fossils suggest that ichthyosaurs were around millions of years before the dinosaurs. (cosmosmagazine.com)
He analyzes important new 'feathered' dinosaurs from Liaoning, China, and develops theoretical methods for better understanding phylogenetic relationships and pattern in the fossil record. (amnh.org)
Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries and its accompanying education and public programs were made possible by Bank of America. (amnh.org)
Abelisauroidea is among the most familiar groups of theropod dinosaurs from Gondwana, with fossil records in South America, Australia, India and Africa, along with Europe. (scielo.br)
Spinosaur fossil shows that dinosaurs got around, but how? (creation.com)
A spinosaur fossil found in the southeastern state of Victoria in Australia suggests dinosaurs were much more mobile than previously thought. (creation.com)
A common question in response to this is 'If dinosaurs and man lived at the same time, why aren't their fossils found together? (icr.org)
Many of the creatures, like mammals and birds, that appear with dinosaurs in fossil graveyards are still around today. (icr.org)
The most well-known fossils are dinosaurs, but there are fossils of almost all types of animals and plants. (lu.se)

The other fossils identified with the megaraptor fossils include two specimens of Unenlagniinae, a species closely related to velociraptors. (bgr.com)
The Royal Ontario Museum says it has discovered the oldest-known swimming jellyfish in the fossil record from specimens collected at the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies. (reddeeradvocate.com)
Researchers were surprised by the large number of specimens recovered. (utoronto.ca)
The differences between the two specimens led the researchers to wonder were these due to changes during the growth of one species, or did they instead suggest that two distinct species were present in this new deposit? (scitechdaily.com)
By painstakingly measuring hundreds of specimens of a fossil mammal called Thyrohyrax, recovered from the famous fossil beds of Egypt's Fayum Province, the researchers determined that males of this now-extinct species -- and only males -- had oversized, swollen lower jaws shaped much like a banana. (eurekalert.org)
To validate his findings, Heads dissected present-day katydids of the same genus and confirmed the remarkable similarities between the fossil and the extant specimens. (scienceblog.com)
Over the years, researchers have attempted to define a set of criteria from which to evaluate the nature of purported MB-like tissues recovered from fossil specimens. (lu.se)
Based on recently published data and our own observations of MB distribution and structure using computed tomography and histochemistry, we attempt to advance the discourse on identifying MB in fossil specimens. (lu.se)

Albrecht, together with Prof. Dr. Torsten Wappler of the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt and other Senckenberg researchers, classified a total of 47,064 fossil leaves of 436 plant species from 16 sites in Central Europe, Iceland, and Norway and examined them for feeding traces left by insects. (phys.org)
One of the common refrains that comes up regarding the fossil record, or regarding claims about biodiversity and the evolution of species more generally, is that the vast majority of species that have ever lived on the Earth have gone extinct. (uncommondescent.com)
As other Darwinopterus Pterosaurs do sport large head crests, researchers now believe that the species is sexually dimorphic, with males using the crests to attract mates or intimidate rivals. (thatpetplace.com)
This combination of traits convinced the researchers that what they were looking at was a new genus and species. (yahoo.com)
When the researchers analyzed the data, their evolutionary tree showed an outcome called a polytomy - "when a bunch of different species kind of blur together into a single spot" - with Jormungandr walhallaensis and Clidastes, Zietlow said. (yahoo.com)
Additional fossils of the newfound species could help fine-tune Jormungandr walhallaensis' position on the mosasaur family tree, said Konishi, who studies mosasaur evolution and was not involved in the study. (yahoo.com)
Paleontologists at the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum have uncovered fossils of a large new predatory species in half-a-billion-year-old rocks from Kootenay National Park in the Canadian Rockies. (utoronto.ca)
Based on more than 100 exceptionally well-preserved fossils now housed at the ROM, researchers were able to reconstruct Cambroraster in unprecedented detail, revealing characteristics that had not been seen before in related species. (utoronto.ca)
The quarry is well known as one of several local sites yielding new species of fossil sponges. (scitechdaily.com)
With modern species, researchers can study fluid flows around living animals. (salon.com)
The first fossils of abelisaurids from Continental Africa were found at the beginning of the 20th century, and the noasaurid Elaphrosaurus from Tanzania was named as a new species in 1920 ( Janensch, 1920 Janensch, W.U. 1920. (scielo.br)
when they show up again in the fossil record around 130 million years ago, they're a diverse bunch of animals, radiating out into all sorts of different species. (popsci.com)
Researchers studying 160 million year old sea spider fossils have found evidence that the ancient species is closely related to sea spiders alive today. (shortyok.com)
This particular specimen represents a new species named Arethaea solterae, named after researcher Leellen Solter. (scienceblog.com)
Palaeoentomologist Sam Heads, the director of the Prairie Research Institute's Center for Paleontology, highlights the significance of the discovery: "Having a fossil species of a modern genus is really significant because it confirms the antiquity of this lineage. (scienceblog.com)
The katydid fossil belongs to the genus Arethaea and represents a new but extinct species, named Arethaea solterae. (scienceblog.com)
No one knows when ergot fungus first attacked grass, but both fossils discovered inside the amber resemble modern species, Poinar said. (livescience.com)

We are visited by researchers from the Department of Geology at Lund University, who show different fossils - some of them several hundred million years old! (lu.se)
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden are investigating a car fuel comprised of a liquid that is converted to hydrogen by a solid catalyst. (lu.se)
We are open to researchers from within Lund University and to people from other universities and the industry. (lu.se)
Read the interview with Fredric Bauer, researcher in environmental and energy systems at Lund University and CIRCLE, about his work on mapping the chemical and plastics industry. (lu.se)
The webinar is moderated by Dr. Hui Zhao, Postdoctoral researcher at the department for Strategic Communication, Lund university. (lu.se)

Ever since the first dinosaur fossil was identified almost 200 years ago, people have wondered how these fascinating animals lived, moved, and behaved. (amnh.org)
The Continental African abelisauroid theropod dinosaur fossil record from the Jurassic-Cretaceous periods is becoming increasingly better understood, and offers great insight into the evolution and biogeography of this long-lived group of carnivores. (scielo.br)
German researchers used a CT scanner and a 3D printer to make accurate copies of a dinosaur fossil that's been stored in protective plaster for decades, according to new research published online in the journal Radiology. (3d-expo.ru)

The fossils are exceptionally intriguing because the valley where they were discovered is an inhospitable valley in Chilean Patagonia. (bgr.com)
The Royal Ontario Museum said in a statement that the fossils were exceptionally well preserved at the Burgess Shale, considering jellyfish are about 95 per cent water. (reddeeradvocate.com)
In the resulting crater, the researchers found an astonishing collection of exceptionally well-preserved fossils. (uiowa.edu)

The ancient monkey fossils indicate the primate at one point made a 100-mile ocean crossing between North America and South America into modern-day Panama, meaning monkeys swung around jungles on the North American continent far earlier than previously thought. (ibtimes.com)
We hope to find more monkey fossils, but time is definitely a factor," Bloch said. (ibtimes.com)
For several decades, Simons visited the site in search of early ape and monkey fossils, as part of his main research focus on the evolution of primates leading up to humans. (eurekalert.org)

Finding these megaraptor fossils in the Las China valley is exciting, the researchers say , especially because they haven't been found here before. (bgr.com)
The newly named Burgessomedusa phasmiformis, which means Burgess Shale jellyfish with a ghostly form, was found among the fossils that had been collected from one of the sites at Yoho National Park in British Columbia in the 1980s and 1990s. (reddeeradvocate.com)
Fossil teeth are often found in isolation, providing a tantalising clue to their owner and scientists now have a method to help them extrapolate tooth and jaw size in incomplete fossil finds. (abc.net.au)
Researchers conducted a range of measurements of tooth size, including CT scanning the teeth, but in the end found that the most accurate measurement was simply to multiply the width of the tooth by its length to form a rectangle representing the crown size. (abc.net.au)
Simosuchus is easily the most bizarre crocodyliform ever found," declared Dr. Christopher Brochu, a leading expert on fossil crocodiles from the University of Iowa. (stonybrook.edu)
New scanning technology has given scientists an extraordinary view inside the cells of what may be the oldest plant-like fossils ever found. (abc.net.au)
The finding that led to our most recent peek into Pterosaur life is a Darwinopterus fossil that was found in northeastern China. (thatpetplace.com)
Ichthyosaur fossils found in Norway suggest that the marine reptiles may have survived Earth's greatest mass extinction event 252 million years ago. (cosmosmagazine.com)
But, until Permian-aged fossils of ichthyosaur ancestors are found, the jury is still out on when these marine reptiles took the plunge. (cosmosmagazine.com)
Paleontologists recently described the previously unknown mosasaur from fossils found near the North Dakota town of Walhalla. (yahoo.com)
Jasechko recently led a study of the data collected from more than 6,000 wells around the globe, which found that fossil water is a huge part of the water we use today, but that it is vulnerable to modern-day contaminants. (groundwatercanada.com)
The study found that fossil water is vulnerable, even at those depths, because the modern-day rain and snow is mixing together with the fossil water. (groundwatercanada.com)
The oldest Abelisauroidea fossil record found in Africa dates from the Late Jurassic, while the final records date from the end of the Cretaceous. (scielo.br)
Their fossils have been found in every modern continent that was once part of Gondwana, with a few records also in Europe ( Le Loeuff & Buffetaut, 1991 Le Loeuff, L. & Buffetaut, E. 1991. (scielo.br)
It's unknown why they are not found farther north, given that were at one point in Panama, said study co-author Aaron Wood, who discovered the first teeth as a Florida Museum of Natural History postdoctoral researcher in 2012. (ibtimes.com)
While the fossil mammals found with P. transitus include horses, camels and squirrels that look like what paleontologists have found in the early Miocene of Mexico, Texas and Florida, the new monkey was limited to the southernmost point of the continent," said Wood, now a paleontologist at Iowa State University. (ibtimes.com)
If this speculation is correct, Thyrohyrax and its fossil relatives would be the only mammals found so far to use such a skeletal structure for producing sound, the researchers said. (eurekalert.org)
Also, relatively few Thyrohyrax fossils had been found for study. (eurekalert.org)
One point of contention is that the researchers assume that since the fossilized bone was found in southeastern Australia, that's where these creatures lived. (creation.com)
However, while there are indeed fossils showing evidence of rapid burial in situ , 4 just because a creature is found dead in one area does not mean that is where it lived. (creation.com)
6 If people existed at that time, why aren't they found with these fossils? (icr.org)
Scientists say a 47-million-year-old fossil found in Germany may be a key link to explaining the evolution of early primates and, perhaps, telling them about developments that led to modern human beings. (go.com)
The fossil , of a young female that probably resembled a modern-day lemur, is described as 'the most complete primate fossil ever found. (go.com)
Chinese researchers have found a perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo. (mercopress.com)
But despite fossils' wide range, the Sahara Desert contains many of the oldest, biggest, and most unusual fossils ever found. (listverse.com)
A katydid fossil dating back 50 million years has been discovered in northwestern Colorado and has astounded scientists with its remarkable preservation, including internal organs that are typically not found in fossils. (scienceblog.com)
The fossil was found in the Green River Formation in Rio Blanco County, Colorado, a region known for its extensive fossil beds and detailed records of ancient plants and animals. (scienceblog.com)
The hints that dinos got high come from the first amber fossil ever found of ergot, a grass parasite that can have poisonous and mind-altering effects on animals that nibble the dark fungi. (livescience.com)
The oldest grass fossil ever found is about 100 million years old. (livescience.com)
Ancient man's tooth found in a cave in Laos may be the first Denisov fossil in Southeast Asia, researchers say. (austamil.tv)

Chief among the discoveries were megaraptor fossils. (bgr.com)
This valley has emerged as a very important fossil deposit in recent years, though, and it continues to baffle scientists with the discoveries they are making there. (bgr.com)
Discoveries of multicellular eukaryote fossils in this time have been sporadic and difficult to interpret, with the previous oldest known example of identifiable red algae dated at 1.2 billion years. (abc.net.au)
Hopefully, future fossil discoveries will help us better understand this extraordinary history. (ibtimes.com)

Scientists continue to unearth amazing fossils, like this mammoth tusk. (bgr.com)
Advanced technology allows scientists to look at these fossils in fresh ways. (amnh.org)
Scientists say 47-million-year-old fossil is an early primate. (go.com)
The fossil, for one thing, is far older than any of the human ancestors other scientists have reported finding in what is now eastern Africa. (go.com)
Its adorable fossil is teaching scientists a lot about bird evolution. (popsci.com)
The exceptional preservation of internal organs in the fossil, including thoracic muscles, undifferentiated tissue called the "fat body," and testis-related structures, has amazed scientists. (scienceblog.com)
BSIP is an institute of young scientists anyway as most of the researchers are under 45 years of age," he added. (hindustantimes.com)
Much less is known about the Denisovans because scientists have uncovered fewer fossils of these ancient people. (medlineplus.gov)
Scientists have sequenced Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes from fossils discovered in Europe and Asia. (medlineplus.gov)
A broad audience including researchers from universities and organisations, students, industry scientists and managers, policy makers, and civil society. (lu.se)

Florida Museum of Natural History researchers used a series of 130-foot cores drilled from the Po Plain in northeastern Italy to test a thought experiment: Imagine catastrophe strikes the Adriatic Sea, swiftly wiping out modern marine life. (uncommondescent.com)

Paleontologists like us are used to working with fossils that would seem bizarre to many biologists accustomed to living creatures. (salon.com)
DURHAM, N.C. -- Paleontologists at the Duke Lemur Center have assembled a new picture of a 35-million-year-old fossil mammal -- and they even have added a hint of sound. (eurekalert.org)
Paleontologists have known of the internal mandibular fenestra among fossil hyraxes since early last century, but its significance was poorly understood," Simons said. (eurekalert.org)

That's why some researchers are working on varieties of hops that can better withstand summer heat, warmer winters, changing pests and diseases and less snowfall, which could mean less available irrigation, said Shaun Townsend, an associate professor and senior researcher at Oregon State University. (klfy.com)
I recognize that saying "no" to things is easier for a senior researcher and that early-career researchers may well not have the freedom to choose. (lu.se)

Our research reveals that professors at prestigious universities can be sponsored by foreign fossil fuel companies to write reports that sow doubt about climate change, and that those professors will keep that funding secret from the public. (theecologist.org)
The revelations also follow a series of reports showing fossil fuel companies burying the truth about climate change, while funding flawed research to cast doubt on the scientific consensus. (theecologist.org)
Researchers have known for a while that beer production will be affected by climate change, said Mirek Trnka, a professor at the Global Change Research Institute. (klfy.com)
The fossil fuel lobby at COP is larger than the combined total of the eight delegations from the countries worst affected by climate change in the last two decades - Puerto Rico, Myanmar, Haiti, Philippines, Mozambique, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Pakistan. (globalwitness.org)
The recent IPCC report has made it clear that we need to change our energy supply from fossils to renewable energy if we want to avoid catastrophic climate change. (lu.se)
The need to drastically reduce fossil energy due to climate change is currently the most pressing driver for the search for alternatives with an internal EU target to completely phase out fossil energy in the transport sector by 2050. (lu.se)

The researchers published their findings on the megaraptor fossils in the Journal of South American Earth Sciences in December of last year, according to Phys.org . (bgr.com)
The African continent is a major region of importance when it comes to 26 Abelisauroidea fossil findings, including records of both major subdivisions of the clade: the Abelisauridae and Noasauridae families. (scielo.br)
The fossils were recovered during excavations related to the expansion of the Panama Canal, according to the University of Florida , which is affiliated with several of the researchers who published their findings in the journal Nature Wednesday. (ibtimes.com)
The researchers published their findings in the March issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, which was released in mid-April. (eurekalert.org)

Plant-herbivore interactions from the Cenozoic fossil record. (phys.org)
We've uncovered the oldest large swimming jellyfish that we know of in the fossil record. (reddeeradvocate.com)
Teeth are the sorts of things that survive in the fossil record. (abc.net.au)
Teeth are the sorts of things that survive in the fossil record, so we can tell what the animal was, they're the things that they use to eat the food so they tell us about what it did in the environment, and they also often tell us about how one animal is related to another. (abc.net.au)
DI Channel: Does the fossil record prove humans developed from ape-like ancestors? (uncommondescent.com)
The very things that should have been the slam dunk for Darwin-the fossil record and the genetic code-seem to want to tell a different story, whether or not the academics want to listen. (uncommondescent.com)
From ScienceDaily: Using the fossil record to accurately estimate the timing and pace of past mass extinctions is no easy task, and a new study highlights how fossil evidence can produce a misleading picture if not interpreted with care. (uncommondescent.com)
Fossils from the Cambrian Period, particularly from sites like the Burgess Shale, record a dramatic "explosion" of biodiversity at this time, culminating in the evolution of most of the major groups of animals that survive today. (utoronto.ca)
Dr. Norell's theoretical work focuses on developing methodology for evaluating the effect of missing data on large data sets, sensitivity methods for character weighting, and using phylogeny to estimate patterns in the fossil record such as diversity and extinction. (amnh.org)
The Cambrian explosion, or the biological big bang, refers to an interval of time around 530 million years ago in the Cambrian Period when nearly all major animal phyla began to appear in the fossil record. (scitechdaily.com)
The objective of the present study is to review the fossil record of abelisauroids in continental Africa. (scielo.br)
caution is necessary when attempting to establish a palaeobiogeographic patterns on the basis of a patchily distributed fossil record. (creation.com)
We realized, when I was offered this specimen,' said Dr. Jorn Hurum of the University of Oslo, who led the two-year effort to determine the fossil's importance, 'that it was the most complete primate in the fossil record. (go.com)
But then we have a significant gap in the fossil record," Chiappe explains. (popsci.com)
Scattered fossils record the archaic peoples - Homo erectus , Neanderthals and the recently identified Denisovans - who had the continent to themselves before modern humans moved in. (nature.com)
The tight cluster of stars surrounding a supermassive black hole after it has been violently kicked out of a galaxy represents a new kind of astronomical object and a fossil record of the kick. (rit.edu)
These stars carry with them a kind of fossil record of the kick, even after the black hole has slowed down. (rit.edu)
He also pointed out the textbook addresses one of the state's key curriculum standards, that students should "analyze and evaluate how evidence of common ancestry among groups is provided by the fossil record. (smu.edu)

The fossils - which are embedded in fossil stromatolites from Chitrakoot in central India - were originally thought to be from the Cambrian period, around 540 million years ago, when complex multicellular eukaryote life forms were more common. (abc.net.au)
The most famous fossils from the Cambrian explosion of animal life, which occurred over half a billion years ago, stand in stark contrast to their modern counterparts. (scitechdaily.com)
They were discovered in a new fossil deposit recording life in the Ordovician Period, which was 40 million years after the Cambrian explosion. (scitechdaily.com)
Among the fossils unearthed so far are two very unexpected leftovers from the Cambrian "weird wonders. (scitechdaily.com)
When large, complex fossils were discovered in the Ediacaran, researchers naturally expected that many of them would represent early relatives of the same animal groups that had been recognized in the Cambrian. (salon.com)

The team, led by Dr Alistair Evans from the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University, discovered the pattern after analysing hundreds of fossil teeth from modern and ancient humans, and from great apes including chimpanzees and gorillas. (abc.net.au)
This approach could help with new hominin fossil finds such as the collection of fossils of Homo naledi recently discovered in a cave in South Africa, and reveal more about the life of ancient humans and other mammals. (abc.net.au)
This genetic information is helping researchers learn more about these early humans. (medlineplus.gov)
Determining which areas of the genome are shared with archaic humans, and which areas are different, will also help researchers find out what differentiates modern humans from our closest extinct relatives. (medlineplus.gov)

Since then, many new fossils from Continental Africa have been discovered, and in the mid-2000s some of these were finally recognized as belonging to abelisaurs, particularly abelisaurids. (scielo.br)

Cast of a skull of the hominin, Homo ergaster from Kenya, was one of the fossils included in the research. (abc.net.au)
The earliest known human fossil, 1.8 million years ago, was identified as a Homo erectus mandible from Dimanisi in the Republic of Georgia. (medscape.com)
Researchers have examined the remains of Homo erectus from Kenya, where growth rates of the dentition were almost twice those of modern man. (medscape.com)

With bulging eyes, an elongated mouth and feet that oozed resin, a newly identified fossil insect is so different from anything alive today that it needed to be placed in its own, extinct family. (sciencedaily.com)
In order to gain answers, the Duke team measured tooth samples from the newly available fossils. (eurekalert.org)

By learning more about the megaraptor fossils discovered in Chile, we'll be able to learn more about the food chain of that period and region, which could unearth other secrets. (bgr.com)
That leaves many other archaeologists in the same position as Chris Stringer of London's Natural History Museum, who says he is "sitting on the fence" until researchers unearth more data. (nature.com)

We know from earlier evidence that eukaryotes existed at the time these fossils formed, and there were simple multicellular eukaryotes,' said Professor Knoll, a palaeontologist at Harvard University. (abc.net.au)

Reporters approached the academics claiming to be representatives of unnamed fossil fuel companies - one, a Middle Eastern oil and gas exploration company, the other a coal mining firm based in Indonesia - looking to commission "independent" research. (theecologist.org)

It contains fossil evidence of some of the earliest animals that existed in the oceans about 508 million years ago and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980. (reddeeradvocate.com)
These fossils predate earliest accepted red algae fossils by 400 million years. (abc.net.au)

But this transition is not without pitfalls as shown by a recent study of two large renewable projects in Iceland by LUCSUS researcher Henner Busch and Wim Carton. (lu.se)

While the existence of this blog suggests that it became more legitimate in the meantime to carry out research without flying, it is also true that there are still many researchers (including sustainability researchers) who would argue that the importance of their research somewhat overcompensates their high-carbon mode of working. (lu.se)
Sustainability) researchers have a role to play in helping to question and overcoming fossil infrastructures within and beyond the academic field. (lu.se)

The sheer abundance of this animal is extraordinary," said Caron, who is also the Richard M. Ivey Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology at the ROM and leader of the field expeditions that unearthed the new fossils. (utoronto.ca)

A reconstruction of this uncommonly complete fossil reptile and an interpretation of its place in the crocodile evolutionary tree became the subject of the new volume. (stonybrook.edu)
Artistic reconstruction of the Ordovician fossils Mieridduryn bonniae. (scitechdaily.com)
Furthermore, the CT scan was then sent to a 3D printer, which created an accurate reconstruction of the fossil with selective laser sintering, a technology that uses a high-powered laser to fuse together materials to make a 3D object. (3d-expo.ru)

Andrew Knoll, who co-authored a paper last year reporting on the discovery of 1.56 billion-year-old seaweed-like fossils , said the new study was a fine contribution to the understanding of early life. (abc.net.au)
However, he said the techniques used in this study represented a new frontier for palaeontology, that would enable the study of fossils in an entirely new way. (abc.net.au)
A Chilean paleontologist has discovered the fossils of a duck-billed herbivorous dinosaur that is believed to have roamed the ancient and remote river plains of Patagonia in southern Chile about 72 million years ago, according to a new study published in Science Advances. (santiagochronicle.com)
But other study authors also commented on the fossil discovery. (santiagochronicle.com)
The study estimates that between 42 and 85 per cent of the total aquifer storage in the upper one kilometre of the world's crust and most of the water pumped from these deeper wells is fossil water. (groundwatercanada.com)
The researchers did not check for specific contaminants in this study, but the mere evidence of significant mixing of the fossil and modern water means that today's rain and melting snow can potentially carry pollutants into the stores of fossil water, Jasechko says. (groundwatercanada.com)
In addition, the CT study provided valuable information about the condition and integrity of the fossil, showing multiple fractures and destruction of the front rim of the vertebral body. (3d-expo.ru)
In a study published recently in Nature Communications , researchers led by Fabien Knoll from ARAID-Dinopolis and the University of Manchester describe an ancient, unlucky little hatchling from the group enantiornithes , a lineage of ancient birds with no living descendants. (popsci.com)

The results are based on the analysis of feeding traces left by arthropods on more than 45,000 fossil leaves . (phys.org)
The feeding traces of such insects are also clearly visible on fossil leaves. (phys.org)
Scattered across the globe, fossils are traces of organisms from a past geologic age that have been embedded and preserved in the Earth's crust. (listverse.com)

Researchers from the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt and the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center Frankfurt have uncovered the factors that determine the enormous diversity of herbivorous insects. (phys.org)
The team of researchers examined each well-preserved fossil leaf for signs of feeding by insects. (phys.org)
Jan. 8, 2020 Most people associate the idea of creatures trapped in amber with insects or spiders, which are preserved lifelike in fossil tree resin. (sciencedaily.com)

We need fossil free politics. (globalwitness.org)

And as we go farther back in Earth's history, the fossils start to look even weirder. (salon.com)

Located in a sheep field near Llandrindod Wells in mid Wales (UK), this deposit was discovered during the COVID-19 lockdowns by independent researchers and Llandrindod residents Dr. Joseph Botting and Dr. Lucy Muir, Honorary Research Fellows at Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales. (scitechdaily.com)
It comprises about 99 per cent of all fresh water on the planet, and what our research is showing is that it is likely that more than half of this huge fresh water resource is fossil water," Jasechko says. (groundwatercanada.com)
A Greenpeace undercover investigation has exposed how fossil fuel companies can secretly pay academics at leading American universities to write research that sows doubt about climate science and promotes the companies' commercial interests. (theecologist.org)
Professor Frank Clemente, a sociologist from Penn State university, was asked if he could produce a report "to counter damaging research linking coal to premature deaths (in particular the World Health Organization's figure that 3.7 million people die per year from fossil fuel pollution)" . (theecologist.org)
The digital dataset and, ultimately, reproductions of the 3-D print may easily be shared, and other research facilities could thus gain valuable informational access to rare fossils, which otherwise would have been restricted,' Issever said. (3d-expo.ru)
But Jens Franzen of the Senckenberg Research Institute in Germany, who was on the team assembled to examine the fossil, said, 'I don't think so, that we are dealing with a direct ancestor. (go.com)
The fossil was shown by collectors to Dr. Hurum, who brought in colleagues from Oslo and from the Senckenberg Research Institute to authenticate the find. (go.com)
The institute aims to improve research output and become a unique institution in the field of fossils and archaeology. (hindustantimes.com)
From 1946 till now, important research on fossils and archeology has been done in this institute. (hindustantimes.com)
There has been a dramatic increase in funding for alternative energy research during the 1970s and thereafter combined with several policy initiatives to financially support alternatives during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000, still the use of fossil energy for transport has continued to grow and represent more than 95% of global energy use in the transport sector. (lu.se)
In two research articles, Lund researchers have demonstrated that the method works, and while it is still basic research, it has the potential to become an efficient energy-storage system in the future. (lu.se)
In a new research project entitled "FlyWell" (Flying less and well-being: Engaging Norwegians in reducing the flight intensity of social practices) PI Mònica Guillén-Royo , her colleagues from CICERO and I are going to meet representatives from public organisations including the Norwegian Football Association, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation as well as from the academic sector to collectively reflect on current fossil and alternative more sustainable communication and mobility patterns. (lu.se)
Nevertheless, this has created a much-needed momentum for taking on the many challenges of the current plastic system such as climate impacts of fossil-based plastic materials, a low degree of reuse and recycling, and microplastics in the environment through research and development and innovation for transition to a sustainable plastics system. (lu.se)
There is also the pleasure to share our diverse research collection of marine vertebrate fossils, dating from the Late Permian through to Late Cretaceous. (lu.se)

The fossil was collected in 2015 by the North Dakota Geological Survey, a state agency dedicated to geology and public education about minerals and fossils. (yahoo.com)

Additionally, the fossil showed little tubules connected to a round structure, identified as a testis and its associated accessory glands. (scienceblog.com)

The individuals approached have previously been linked to fossil fuel companies or climate sceptic organisations that have received fossil fuel funding. (theecologist.org)
The conference "STEPS Towards Sustainable Plastics" will present insights from national and international speakers and organisations on the various aspects for a sustainable plastic system such as decoupling plastic production from fossil resources, polymer and plastic design, recycling methods, policies and governance for a circular plastics economy. (lu.se)

Present-day katydids of the genus Arethaea, pictured here, have the same internal structures as those seen in the fossil. (scienceblog.com)

Even though this fossil find has been described in evolutionary terms by LiveScience, it is actually more consistent with the biblical account of Earth history as recorded in Genesis. (creation.com)
In conclusion, this 50-million-year-old katydid fossil with its exceptional preservation of internal organs provides a rare glimpse into the ancient world, offering valuable data points for the evolutionary history of katydids and enhancing our understanding of insect anatomy and evolution. (scienceblog.com)

The presence of hundreds of those being paid to push the toxic interests of polluting fossil fuel companies, will only increase the scepticism of climate activists who see these talks as more evidence of global leaders' dithering and delaying. (globalwitness.org)

Getting information about a fossil typically requires the removal of the plaster and all the sediment surrounding it, which can lead to loss of material or even destruction of the fossil itself. (3d-expo.ru)
A recent discovery of a 50-million-year-old katydid fossil in northwestern Colorado has amazed researchers with its exceptional preservation, including internal organs that are not typically fossilized. (scienceblog.com)

The occupational health and safety issues facing employers, workers, medical practitioners and researchers in the USA are numerous. (cdc.gov)
What follows is a few of the many issues that the NORA industry sectors in the USA have identified as needing the attention of occupational safety and health researchers and practitioners. (cdc.gov)
Today, the sustainable transport community has grown to include thousands of researchers, inventors, and practitioners. (lu.se)
The aim of the collaborative initiative Narrating Climate Futures is to create a platform through which to activate a new conversation about the potential of these narrative techniques among researchers and practitioners. (lu.se)

Welsh "weird wonder" fossils provide new clues to the history of arthropod evolution. (scitechdaily.com)
Bird bones and egg shell fossil fragments from a waterside bird colony are sending clues from the long-ago past to help solve this quandary. (icr.org)

Examination of the fossil went on for two years. (go.com)

A paper to be published on September 2, 2011 in the authoritative magazine Science reveals the discovery of a primitive woolly rhino fossil in the Himalayas, which suggests some giant mammals first evolved in present-day Tibet before the beginning of the Ice Age. (phys.org)

As well as renewables spending exceeding that on new fossil plants, last year also was the first time expenditure in developing countries, mainly China, exceeded that in the industrialized world, Sawyer said, predicting both trends will continue. (latimes.com)
Professor Bengtson said the general lack of fossils during this time made reconstructing the tree of life difficult. (abc.net.au)
However, a recently discovered fossil hints that sexual dimorphism may be involved, and has allowed researchers to determine the sex of fossilized Pterosaurs for the first time. (thatpetplace.com)
You can also take a closer look and feel the fossils, ask questions and experience a journey through time. (lu.se)

Similar studies have been carried out on fossil lizards and champsosaurs from this region. (amnh.org)

This massive, richly illustrated volume, edited by Drs. David W. Krause and Nathan J. Kley of Stony Brook, clearly dispels the notion that crocodiles are static, unchanging "living fossils. (stonybrook.edu)

In fact, the researchers learned that about half of the fossil water from wells they sampled had some detectable amount of modern ground water. (groundwatercanada.com)
Researchers can tell the difference between modern-day water and fossil water by measuring the isotopes of tritium that is a signature of our nuclear age, as well as Carbon-14 in the water. (groundwatercanada.com)
According to John Lundberg from Drexel University's Academy of Natural Sciences, the ancient fossil is more like the modern-day catfish than one would expect. (listverse.com)
Even though the fossil is relatively old in the way we ordinarily think of ages in millions of years, it is still essentially anatomically modern and directly comparable to living catfishes," said Lundberg. (listverse.com)
Archaeologists are busily hunting for artefacts and even fossils of the first modern Asians, which could finally put the debate to rest. (nature.com)
Var god och använd en modern webbläsare för att ta del av denna webbplats, som t.ex. (lu.se)

The site represents one of only a few such "Lagerstätten" (the scientific term for a fossil deposit of this magnitude) from the Middle Ordovician period. (uiowa.edu)

The discovery not only contributes to understanding the evolution of katydids but also offers insights into ancient insect anatomy and the preservation potential of soft internal structures in fossils. (scienceblog.com)

A peculiar and entirely soft-bodied suite of fossils from this era are collectively referred to as the Ediacara biota . (salon.com)

BONN, Germany (AP) - The United Arab Emirates official tapped to head the next global climate summit pledged Thursday to listen to young people demanding a place at the table when negotiators gather in the Gulf nation this fall, but offered no response to criticism of his links with fossil fuel interests. (wlns.com)
Many people, including children and youth all over the world, are rightly concerned about your ties and links to the fossil fuel industry and thereby the integrity of the (U.N. talks)," Clara von Glasow of the Youth Climate Movement, an international network of more than 1000 campaign groups, told al-Jaber. (wlns.com)
There is no such thing as an emissions-free fossil fuel," said Hanna Fekete of the NewClimate think tank. (wlns.com)
Investigative reporters working for Greenpeace UK's Energydesk have uncovered a nexus of senior academics willing to accept large sums of money from fossil fuel companies to write reports and newspaper articles published under their own names and university affiliations, without declaring the funding. (theecologist.org)
The investigation revealed that Soon had accepted donations from fossil fuel companies and anonymous donors in return for producing climate-sceptic scientific papers. (theecologist.org)
First, to understand to what extent fossil fuel prices affect the political stability in resource-rich countries in the MENA countries. (ibei.org)
8th November, London/ Glasgow - At least 503 fossil fuel lobbyists, affiliated with some of the world's biggest polluting oil and gas giants, have been granted access to COP26, flooding the Glasgow conference with corporate influence. (globalwitness.org)
Researchers counted the number of individuals either directly affiliated with fossil fuel corporations, including the likes of Shell, Gazprom and BP or attending as members of delegations that act on behalf of the fossil fuel industry. (globalwitness.org)
If the fossil fuel lobby were a country delegation at COP it would be the largest with 503 delegates - two dozen more than the largest country delegation. (globalwitness.org)
Fossil fuel lobbyists dwarf the UNFCCC's official indigenous constituency by around two to one. (globalwitness.org)
COP26 is being sold as the place to raise ambition, but it's crawling with fossil fuel lobbyists whose only ambition is to stay in business. (globalwitness.org)
If we're serious about raising ambition, then fossil fuel lobbyists should be shut out of the talks and out of our national capitals. (globalwitness.org)
Clearly that ambition only stretches as far as the fossil fuel industry. (globalwitness.org)
The presence of lobbyists at COP does not end with the fossil fuel industry. (globalwitness.org)
Providing energy for the overall economy ( oil and gas extraction) takes many thousands of workers involved in energy supply from fossil fuel sources and renewables. (cdc.gov)
Researchers have also been calculating whether it might be possible to use the fuel for larger vehicles such as buses, trucks and aircraft. (lu.se)

1 The single fossil vertebra, unearthed in the 1990s, is identical to that of a spinosaurid called Baryonyx walkeri which was previously thought to only live in the northern European climes. (creation.com)

Fossils suggest the first grasslands appeared some 30 million years after the mass extinction that killed off the dinos at the end of the Cretaceous Period about 65 million years ago. (livescience.com)

IGS researcher Paul Liu poses with a representation of the ancient sea scorpion fossil Liu and his colleagues discovered in northeast Iowa. (uiowa.edu)
Some fossil water lies closer to the surface, but most of it is pumped from deep wells, around 250 metres deep in ancient aquifers. (groundwatercanada.com)

When they peered inside the fossils using synchrotron-based X-ray tomography - an imaging technique similar to CT scanning but more powerful - the researchers identified cellular structures known as rhomboidal platelets, which the algae might have used for photosynthesis. (abc.net.au)
A thread-like type of fossil contains cellular structures known as rhomboidal platelets (shown in green), which may have been used for photosynthesis. (abc.net.au)

The fossils we studied cover nearly the entire Cenozoic era, i.e., the period between 66 and two million years before present. (phys.org)
They said the find pushed back the date of the oldest-known identifiable complex plant-like fossil - also red algae - by 400 million years. (abc.net.au)
The location, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has been the source of many other fossils from the Eocene Period, about 50 million years ago. (go.com)
Lucy,' probably the best-known African fossil that is generally accepted as pre-human, is somewhat more than 3 million years old. (go.com)
The hunk of amber from Myanmar encases an exquisitely preserved ergot fungus, perched atop a grass spikelet that grew about 100 million years ago, researchers report in the 2015 issue of the journal Palaeodiversity. (livescience.com)
The amber fossils put the fungus firmly in the Old World, and the researchers suggested both grasses and their parasite were around since the older Jurassic Period, which lasted from about 199.6 million to 145.5 million years ago. (livescience.com)

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