DNA from 1,600-year-old Iranian sheep mummy brings history to life
Credit: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and Zanjan Cultural Heritage Centre, Archaeological Museum of Zanjan. A team of geneticists and archaeologists from ...
Tag: Evolution
COVID-causing coronavirus following predictable mutational footsteps
Similarities in locations, types of mutations could inform responses to future SARS-CoV-2 strainsCredit: Scott Schrage, University of Nebraska-Lincoln New research ...
DNA reveals the evolutionary history of museum specimens
An international team, led by UNIGE and MHN, has optimized a method for analyzing the genomes of specimens from natural ...
Emotions and culture are most important for acceptance of carnivore management strategies
Credit: Photo: Oliver Höner/Leibniz-IZW Emotions towards and cultural importance of large carnivores are better predictors of the acceptance of management ...
Crystal clear: Lepidopterans have many ways of being transparent
Credit: Nipam Patel Butterflies and moths have beautiful wings: the bright flare of an orange monarch, the vivid stripes of ...
Symbionts sans frontieres: Bacterial partners travel the world
Some bacterial symbionts in travel the globe and are true cosmopolitansCredit: Laetitia Wilkins The Lucinidae family, lucinids for short, comprises ...
Human environmental genome recovered in the absence of skeletal remains
Credit: © Anna Belfer-Cohen The cave of Satsurblia was inhabited by humans in different periods of the Paleolithic: Up to ...
Huge volcanic eruption disrupted climate but not human evolution
Credit: Steve Self, UC Berkeley New Brunswick, N.J. (July 9, 2021) -- A massive volcanic eruption in Indonesia about 74,000 ...
The giant panda’s mystery revealed
The evolution of the temporomandibular joint and premolar teeth enabled adaptation to bamboo dietCredit: Pekka Vallittu Although the giant panda ...
More ancestral enzyme
Molecular evolution of enzyme beyond recruit hypothesisCredit: Seiya Watanabe, Ehime University The aconitase superfamily currently contains four functional enzymes including ...
Ancient ostrich eggshell reveals new evidence of extreme climate change thousands of years ago
Credit: Philip Kiberd Evidence from an ancient eggshell has revealed important new information about the extreme climate change faced by ...
Climate changed the size of our bodies and, to some extent, our brains
Credit: Manuel Will The average body size of humans has fluctuated significantly over the last million years and is strongly ...
CWRU receives $1.2M W.M. Keck Foundation grant to determine ecological factors affect the evolution of our ancestors
Professor Beverly Saylor leads interdisciplinary global group applying state-of-the art technology to answer ancient questionsCredit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND, ...
Researchers detail the most ancient bat fossil ever discovered in Asia
Credit: Matthew Jones LAWRENCE -- A new paper appearing in Biology Letters describes the oldest-known fragmentary bat fossils from Asia, ...
Wolbachia and the paradox of growth regulation
A genetic approach offers new clues to the regulation of Wolbachia proliferation and the effect of over-proliferation on the insect ...
Not only humans got talent, dogs got it too!
Is talent in a given field a uniquely human phenomenon?Credit: Photo by Cooper Photo Some exceptionally gifted people have marked ...
Methane in the plumes of Saturn’s moon Enceladus: Possible signs of life?
A study published in Nature Astronomy concludes that known geochemical processes can't explain the levels of methane measured by the ...
New species of pseudo-horses living 37 million years ago
Researchers at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country describe two palaeotheriidae mammals that lived in the subtropical landscape of AlavaCredit: ...
The evolution of vinegar flies is based on the variation of male sex pheromones
Max Planck researchers decipher the chemical language underlying mating in 99 species of the genus DrosophilaCredit: Anna Schroll By analyzing ...
Wallonia as an international reference for the timeline
Paleontologists from Univeristy of Liège (Belgium) redefine the geological boundary between the Devonian and Carboniferous periods. A Walloon site could ...