Deep-sea worms and bacteria team up to harvest methane
Credit: Alvin/WHOI Scientists at Caltech and Occidental College have discovered a methane-fueled symbiosis between worms and bacteria at the bottom ...
Tag: Evolution
Tooth be told: Earless seals existed in ancient Australia
Credit: James Rule A fossilised seal tooth found on a Victorian beach could hold the key to uncovering the history ...
When three species of human ancestor walked the Earth
Credit: Angeline Leece. An international team, including Arizona State University researcher Gary Schwartz, have unearthed the earliest known skull of ...
American robins now migrate 12 days earlier than in 1994
New GPS data show birds adjust to shifting snow conditions as climate warmsCredit: Brian Weeks Every spring, American robins migrate ...
Surprising hearing talents in cormorants
Credit: SDU Many aquatic animals like frogs and turtles spend a big part of their lives under water and have ...
Climate change may be making migration harder by shortening nightingales’ wings
Credit: Javier de la Puente The Common Nightingale, known for its beautiful song, breeds in Europe and parts of Asia ...
Untangling the social lives of spiders
Credit: Noa Pinter-Wollman The idea of a complex spider society--in which thousands of spiders live, hunt, and raise their young ...
Water pressure: Ancient aquatic crocs evolved, enlarged to avoid freezing
Study pinpoints minimum survivable size of Jurassic crocodilesCredit: Steve Castillo / Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution / Scott Schrage ...
Sturgeon genome sequenced
Credit: Andreas Hartl Sometimes referred to as the "the Methuselah of freshwater fish", sturgeons and their close relatives are very ...
Discovering the diet of the fossil Theropithecus oswaldi found in Cueva Victoria in Spain
The long journey of the African baboonCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA A study published in Journal of Human Evolution reveals for ...
New feathered dinosaur was one of the last surviving raptors
Credit: Sergey Krasovskiy A new feathered dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 67 million years ago is one of the ...
Celebrating our genomic diversity: Fine-scale differences in the Japanese population
Researchers led by Osaka University use dimensionality reduction analyses to identify fine-scale differences in the Japanese population, revealing greater population ...
Here be dragons: Analysis reveals new species in Smaug lizard group
Credit: Edward Stanley GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Smaug, the deadly dragon in J.R.R Tolkien's "The Hobbit," has a few living relatives. ...
Snake venom evolved for prey not protection
Credit: Wolfgang Wuster It is estimated that every year, over 100,000 human deaths can be attributed to snakebite from the ...