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NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars, will search for signs of lifeThe robotic vehicle sailed through space for nearly seven months, covering 293 million miles (472 million km) before piercing the Martian a...
NASA's new Mars Rover will use x-rays to hunt fossilsThe rover's most important samples will be collected by a coring drill on the end of the arm, then stashed in metal tubes that Perseverance...
Mars may have harboured life in past: StudyThe researchers from Imperial College London in the UK concluded that there could be nearly 12,000 Olympic sized pools of organic matter on...
- Butterflies origin pushed back in time: Study
Berlin, Jan 11 (IANS) Newly discovered fossils show that moths and butterflies have been on the planet for at least 200 million years. Scie...
- Butterflies origin pushed back in time: Study
Berlin, Jan 11 (IANS) Newly discovered fossils show that moths and butterflies have been on the planet for at least 200 million years. Scie...
- First photosynthesis took place 1.25 billion years ago: Study
Toronto, Dec 24 (IANS) The process of photosynthesis in plants first took place 1.25 billion years ago, finds a study that identified an al...
Photosynthesis began 1.25 billion years ago on Earth: StudyThe world's oldest algae fossils are a billion years old, according to a study which found that the basis for photosynthesis in today's pla...
Photosynthesis began 1.25 billion years ago on Earth: studyThe study may resolve a long-standing mystery over the age of the fossilised algae, Bangiomorpha pubescens, which were first discovered in ...
2.6-million-yr-old `priceless' fossil on sale for just Rs 4500Rajeev Patnaik, an expert in vertebrate palaeontology said the skull, with its upper jaw still intact, was priceless because there are only...
A look at five biggest meteor crashes of all timeThe oldest recorded meteorite, the Ensisheim struck earth on November 7, 1492, in Ensisheim, France. A 330-pound stone dropped from the sky...
Giant bird-like dinosaur species found in China: StudyMeasuring about eight metres and weighing up to three tonnes, the new species named Beibeilong sinensis or baby dragon from China, lived ab...
- Ancient life forms that survived without oxygen found
New York, Nov 30 (IANS) Researchers have discovered fossils of 2.5 billion-year-old sulfur-oxidising bacteria that existed just fine withou...
- Fossilised algae may soon power electric vehicles
New York, Oct 23 (IANS) Inexpensive and energy-efficient lithium-ion batteries from fossilised remains of single-celled algae called diatom...
Two new 'nesting sites' of dinosaurs found in Madhya Pradesh"According to our study, the dinosaurs used to come from far off places to lay eggs in sandy areas here. These dinosaurs were around 20 to ...
- Two new 'nesting sites' of dinosaurs found in MP
A group of researchers have claimed to have found two new 'nesting sites' of dinosaurs in Dhar district in Madhya Pradesh.
Balloon-shaped fossil clue to life in Earth's ancient seasThe fossil is of a probable 'chancelloriid', a group of bizarre, balloon-shaped animals with an outer skeleton of defensive spines.
Water-holding meteorite suggests Mars was habitableThe finding of a 'cell-like' structure, which investigators now know once held water, came about as a result of collaboration between scien...