Ian Randall | 4 March 2010
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A study of fossil corals has provided fresh optimism that reef ecosystems may be better equipped to deal with present day environmental stresses than previously thought. The research, published in the latest issue of Ecology, looked at a time when sea levels had fallen to their lowest known height.
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Category: Invertebrate Palaeontology, Palaeontology, Pleistocene |
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Tags: Climate Change, Corals, Ecology, Fossils, Pleistocene, Sea level, University of Queensland
Ian Randall | 2 March 2010
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Analysis of fossilised DNA from Norway has shown that polar bears evolved rapidly during the late Pleistocene epoch. The study, which represents the oldest mitochondrial genome to be sequenced so far, was compared with modern brown and polar bear specimens.
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Category: Evolutionary Biology, Palaeontology, Pleistocene, Vertebrate Palaeontology |
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Tags: Brown bears, DNA, Fossils, Jawbone, Late Pleistocene, Polar Bear, Svalbard, University of Oslo