During photosynthesis, trees convert the carbon dioxide to sugars and in doing so produce oxygen as a biproduct, which is vital for life on Earth. “Trees draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and ...

Tyrannoroter had specialized teeth to pulverize plants It lived 307 million years ago during Carboniferous Period Its skull was found in Canada's Nova Scotia province Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists ...

Tyrannoroter heberti fossil shows one of the earliest land animals to eat plants, changing what we know about how ...

The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto the land, and it took another 100 million years for the first animals with ...

It’s time to travel back over 300 million years to the Carboniferous period, a time famous for vast rainforests on land and extraordinary life beneath the waves. Along this lakeshore, the rocks ...

The 300 million-year-old Tyrannoroter heberti had an extra set of conical-shaped teeth, indicating it likely ate plants. It’s one of the earliest species to do so.

Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature dating to about 307 million years ago that is one of the oldest-known plant-eating land ...

Andrew Scott has previously received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust. You ask a very interesting question. For many years, scientists assumed that fire ...

New analysis of Neanderthal bones from Belgium indicates targeted cannibalism of outsiders that may signal territorial conflict before their regional disappearance.

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