Wolves, dogs and dingoes, oh my
Credit: Lyn Watson Dogs are generally considered the first domesticated animal, while its ancestor is generally considered to be the ...
Tag: Evolution
Tropical paper wasps babysit for neighbours
Credit: P Kennedy Wasps provide crucial support to their extended families by babysitting at neighbouring nests, according to new research ...
Higher elevation birds sport thicker down “jackets” to survive the cold
Study of Himalayan songbirds in museum collections is first step toward using feathers to predict the effects of climate change ...
‘Sex, lasers and male competition:’ fruit flies win genetic race with rivals
Males with most impressive adornments have sperm that outcompetes rivals who mate firstCredit: Michal Polak/UC Scientists have accepted natural selection ...
Scientists identify how harmless gut bacteria “turn bad”
Credit: University of Bath An international team of scientists has determined how harmless E. coli gut bacteria in chickens can ...
Mark Torres wins Geochemical Society’s Clarke Award
Early-career honor goes to fourth Rice U. geochemist in 12 yearsCredit: Photo by Woodward Fisher HOUSTON - (Feb. 12, 2021) ...
Family ties explain mysterious social life of coral gobies
Credit: Jim Greenfield The strange social structure of tiny fish called emerald coral gobies may be explained by family loyalty, ...
On the origin of our species
Credit: Chris Stringer Experts from the Natural History Museum, The Francis Crick Institute and the Max Planck Institute for the ...
Links between pollution and cancer in wild animals: what can we learn?
Credit: University of Tartu The recent review, published in Environment International and led by the University of Tartu, summarises the ...
Not a living fossil: How the Coelacanth recently evolved dozens of new genes
Coelacanths gained 62 new genes from traveling DNA that was passed on from other species, new research reveals in a ...
Color is in the eye of the beholder
The evolution of red color vision in lycaenid butterflies linked to coordinated rhodopsin tuningCredit: Image copyright Nanfang Yu (Columbia University). ...
Starling success traced to rapid adaptation
Genetic evolution doesn't always take millions of yearsCredit: Ian Davies, Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Ithaca, NY--Love them or ...
Unusual DNA folding increases the rates of mutations
Credit: Wilfried Guiblet and Dani Zemba, Penn State DNA sequences that can fold into shapes other than the classic double ...
All in the head? Brains adapt to support new species
Credit: Rich Merrill Scientists studying forest dwelling butterflies in Central and South America have discovered that changes in the way ...
Scientists discover how a group of caterpillars became poisonous
Genetic research using Smithsonian collections reveals the evolutionary path of six toxic butterfly speciesCredit: Robert Robbins, Smithsonian. The Atala butterfly ...
UMass Amherst researchers gain insight into the biology of a deadly fungus
Bd's actin structures likely play roles in causing skin disease threatening amphibians worldwideCredit: UMass Amherst Researchers at the University of ...
Climate change may have driven the emergence of SARS-CoV-2
Credit: Dr Robert Beyer Global greenhouse gas emissions over the last century have made southern China a hotspot for bat-borne ...
Nehandertals’ gut microbiota and the bacteria helping our health
Credit: University of Bologna Neanderthals' gut microbiota already included some beneficial micro-organisms that are also found in our own intestine. ...
SSRgenotyper: A new tool to digitally genotype simple sequence repeats
Credit: Lewis, D. H., D. E. Jarvis, and P. J. Maughan. 2020. SSRgenotyper: A simple sequence repeat genotyping application for ...
Fossil pigments shed new light on vertebrate evolution
UCC palaeontologists have discovered new evidence that the fate of vertebrate animals over the last 400 million years has been ...