Evolution

Ground-breaking discovery reveals new clues to stop the spread of deadly infections Using state-of-the art technologies to image human cells and study infection at the level of a single bacterial cell, the research team, led by the London…
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Tiny Australian wallaby the last living link to extinct giant kangaroosCredit: Joseph Burgess A Queensland University of Technology (QUT) led collaboration with University of Adelaide reveals that Australia's pint-sized banded…
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Credit: Photographs of Scaniacypselus and Primotrogon by Jakob Vinther and Fiann Smithwick. Iridescence is responsible for some of the most striking visual displays in the animal kingdom. Now, thanks to a new study of feathers from almost…
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Credit: © Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) today announced the release of "RNA Worlds: New Tools for Deep Exploration", available on its website in hardcover and…
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Genome of blue-fronted Amazon parrot compared with 30 other long-lived birdsCredit: Glaucia Seixas PITTSBURGH--Parrots are famously talkative, and a blue-fronted Amazon parrot named Moises - or at least its genome - is telling scientists…
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Credit: Glaucia Seixas, https://bluefrontedamazonproject.wordpress.com A genome analysis of traits in parrots and 26 other bird species revealed that parrots and other long-lived birds share high rates of conserved…
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Credit: Karl-Göran Sjögren / University of Gothenburg A team of researchers from France, Sweden, and Denmark have identified a new strain of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes plague, in DNA extracted from 5,000-year-old human…
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Credit: Alexander Averianov and Vladimir Efimov Paleontologists from Russia have described a new dinosaur, the Volgatitan. Seven of its vertebrae, which had remained in the ground for about 130 million years, were found on the banks of…
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From fish to flowering plants and seahorses to snakes -- spanning five continents and three oceans -- these new discoveries grow Earth's tree of lifeCredit: © Richard Smith SAN FRANCISCO (December 5, 2018) - In 2018, researchers at the…
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Credit: Manfred Schartl/Paolo Franchini On 3 December 2018, the laboratory of Professor Axel Meyer, University of Konstanz published new findings of an experimental evolutionary project that ran for 30 years on the genomic mechanisms of…
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Credit: Jingmai O'Connor A team of scientists led by Jingmai O'Connor from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, reported the first occurrence of medullary bone in…
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Almost ninety years ago on a freezing January morning, the keepers of the Stockholm Zoo in Sweden discovered a dead seal pup in their seal pond. The pup was immediately recognized as a bastard; a hybrid between species that should not…
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