Tasmanian tiger pups found to be extraordinary similar to wolf pups
Tasmanian tigers start to look like dogs in the pouchCredit: The Pask Lab Micro-CT scanning and digital reconstructions have been ...
Tag: Evolution
Which came first, sleep or the brain?
Researchers find that, despite lacking a brain, Hydra exhibit characteristics at a molecular and genetic level associated with sleep in ...
Unusual sex chromosomes of platypus, emu and duck
Three papers unveil the extraordinary diversity of animal sex chromosomesCredit: © Doug Gimesy Sex chromosomes are presumed to originate from ...
Native biodiversity collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean
Most native species are going locally extinct, while introduced tropical species thriveCredit: © Paolo Albano The coastline of Israel is ...
Research shows rising lizard temperatures may change predator-prey relationship with snakes
Four decades of research on Japanese Izu Islands finds rising lizard temperatures may change predator-prey relationship with snakesCredit: Masami Hasegawa ...
Research explains why crocodiles have changed so little since the age of the dinosaurs
Credit: University of Bristol New research by scientists at the University of Bristol explains how a 'stop-start' pattern of evolution, ...
Oldest hominins of Olduvai Gorge persisted across changing environments
~2.0 to 1.8 million year-old archaeological site demonstrates that early humans had the skills and tools to cope with ecological ...
Guinea baboons grunt with an accent
Credit: Julia Fischer/German Primate Center Musical masterworks as the Queen of the Night's Aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute, are ...
New work provides insight into the relationship between complexity and diversity
Parts of the planet that are diverse biologically and culturally show even more diversity than you'd expectCredit: (Figure: Hamilton et ...
Low genetic diversity in two manatee species off South America
Study raises the alarm for better conservation actionsCredit: Luna, Beaver, Nourisson et al. Worldwide, marine megafauna are at risk of ...
Leaf fossils show severe end-Cretaceous plant extinction in southern Argentina
Credit: Elena Stiles The asteroid impact 66 million years ago that ushered in a mass extinction and ended the dinosaurs ...
New bacterial culture methods could result in the discovery of new species
The culture-dependent study allowed to isolate a surprisingly large number of diverse and previously unreported bacterial strains from the Tabernas ...
A single gene ‘invented’ haemoglobin several times
Credit: © Song et al. / BMC Evolutionary Biology Thanks to the marine worm Platynereis dumerilii, an animal whose genes ...
Big bumblebees learn locations of best flowers
Credit: Natalie Hempel de Ibarra Big bumblebees take time to learn the locations of the best flowers, new research shows. ...
Human-made landscape promotes coexistence of two normally separated Andean warblers
Two Andean warbler species that typically occur at different elevations and hunt by tricking insects to escape can co-occur at ...
Early mammal with remarkably precise bite
Researchers investigate teeth of a small carnivorous mammal that are almost 150 million years oldCredit: © Thomas Martin, Kai R. ...
Remarkable new species of snake found hidden in a biodiversity collection
Waray Dwarf Burrowing Snake occupies its own branch on snake tree of lifeCredit: University of Kansas LAWRENCE -- To be ...
The ABCs of species evolution
A transporter protein that regulates cell membrane cholesterol likely played an important role in vertebrate evolution, according to a review ...
Better learners in collared flycatchers are more likely to imitate competitors
Effect of faster learning was only found in femalesCredit: J. Morinay Many animal species use social information - from conspecifics ...
Ancient DNA sheds light on the peopling of the Mariana Islands
Researchers find that present-day Mariana Islanders' ancestry is linked to the PhilippinesCredit: Hsiao-chun Hung To reach the Mariana Islands in ...