Tag: Evolution

Writing by hand creates much more activity in the sensorimotor parts of the brain, researchers found.Credit: NTNU/Microsoft Professor Audrey van ...

An evolutionary study finds that pteropods, or "wing-footed" sea snails and slugs, have faced acidified oceans in the past - ...

Credit: Jon Flanders STONY BROOK, NY, September 30, 2020 - Bats are nature's solution to control insect pests like mosquitos ...

Credit: Tom Stubbs, University of Bristol While dinosaurs ruled the land in the Mesozoic, the oceans were filled by predators ...

Wildcats in the Swiss Jura will undergo an irreversible genetic replacement by domestic cats if no preventive measures are takenCredit: ...

Credit: Professor Svante Pääbo and Professor Hugo Zeberg. This figure appeared in the publication in Nature. Since first appearing in ...

UMD study suggests caution is needed for research that presumes closely related species use the same genes for similar functionsCredit: ...

Recent findings suggest the repeated evolution of similar traits in island lizards was not channelled by developmental responses to the ...

Credit: Christine Hirschberger, University of Cambridge) The emergence of jaws in primitive fish allowed vertebrates to become top predators. What ...

The debate about when dinosaurs developed feathers has taken a new turn with a paper refuting earlier claims that feathers ...

Credit: Valk/ MPI CBS The location of a country on the earth says a lot about its climate, its neighboring ...

Münster University researchers develop web app for comparing genomesCredit: Erk Wibberg Evolution leaves its traces in particular in genomes. Pinpointing ...

Credit: George Poinar Jr., Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - An Oregon State University study has identified four new species ...

Credit: Winai Suthanthangjai While the majority of snakes would normally swallow their prey whole, the Small-banded Kukri Snake seems to ...