Scientists discover how birds and dinosaurs evolved to dazzle with colourful displays
Credit: Photographs of Scaniacypselus and Primotrogon by Jakob Vinther and Fiann Smithwick. Iridescence is responsible for some of the most ...
Tag: Evolution
New book from CSHLPress: RNA Worlds: New Tools for Deep Exploration
Credit: © Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) today announced ...
Parrot genome analysis reveals insights into longevity, cognition
Genome of blue-fronted Amazon parrot compared with 30 other long-lived birdsCredit: Glaucia Seixas PITTSBURGH--Parrots are famously talkative, and a blue-fronted ...
Parrot genome analysis reveals mutations favoring longevity and cognition
Credit: Glaucia Seixas, https://bluefrontedamazonproject.wordpress.com A genome analysis of traits in parrots and 26 other bird species revealed that parrots and ...
An ancient strain of plague may have led to the decline of Neolithic Europeans
Credit: Karl-Göran Sjögren / University of Gothenburg A team of researchers from France, Sweden, and Denmark have identified a new ...
Scientists found new giant dinosaur
Credit: Alexander Averianov and Vladimir Efimov Paleontologists from Russia have described a new dinosaur, the Volgatitan. Seven of its vertebrae, ...
229 new species described by the California Academy of Sciences in 2018
From fish to flowering plants and seahorses to snakes -- spanning five continents and three oceans -- these new discoveries ...
30 years of experimental evolution results in a new sex chromosome
Credit: Manfred Schartl/Paolo Franchini On 3 December 2018, the laboratory of Professor Axel Meyer, University of Konstanz published new findings ...
Medullary bone found in Cretaceous birds
Credit: Jingmai O'Connor A team of scientists led by Jingmai O'Connor from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), ...
A bastard seal from the past reveals the potential for human hybrids
Almost ninety years ago on a freezing January morning, the keepers of the Stockholm Zoo in Sweden discovered a dead ...
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