Oldest securely dated evidence for a river flowing through the Thar Desert, Western India
Using luminescence dating of ancient river sediments, a new study presents evidence for river activity at Nal Quarry in the ...
Tag: Evolution
Tapping secrets of Aussie spider’s unique silk
Silk so robust potential new genetic material toutedCredit: Professor Mark Elgar, the University of Melbourne An international collaboration has provided ...
New study shows how complex metabolism may have self-assembled from simple precursors
New research shows that simple environmental reactions can form reactive thioesters similar to those used in modern biology to transduce ...
Losing flight had huge benefits for ants, finds new study
Credit: Philip Gronski Ants are one of the most successful groups of animals on the planet, occupying anywhere from temperate ...
World’s greatest mass extinction triggered switch to warm-bloodedness
Credit: Credit: Mike Benton, University of Bristol. Animal images are by Nobu Tamura, Wikimedia. Mammals and birds today are warm-blooded, ...
Remnants of ancient parasites could be shaping our response to coronavirus
Credit: Glenn Asakawa/CU Boulder Why are some people more resilient to viruses than others? The answer has eluded scientists for ...
Monkey study suggests that they, like humans, may have ‘self-domesticated’
Credit: Rebecca Terrett and Lauren Kelly, Ghazanfar Lab, Princeton University It's not a coincidence that dogs are cuter than wolves, ...
From puppyhood to senior age: Different personality traits age differently
Dogs' personality changes over time, but these changes occur unevenly during the dogs' life, and each trait follows a distinct ...
Wolves attached – Adult wolves miss their human handler in separation similar to dogs
Adult, intensively socialised wolves form individualized social bonds with their human handlersCredit: Photo: Paula Pérez Fraga Based on the new ...
DNA-peptide interactions create complex behaviours which may have helped shape biology
Researchers find that simple DNA-peptide interactions create a surprising diversity of compartmentalised higher-ordered phase behaviours, suggesting that these polymers' primordial ...
A tiny jaw from Greenland sheds light on the origin of complex teeth
Credit: Marta Szubert A team of scientists led from Uppsala University have described the earliest known example of dentary bone ...
If the glove fits
Modern tools and US Army-edition gloves may have uncovered the original dimensions of the tefach, a biblical unit of measurement ...
Sea star’s ability to clone itself may empower this mystery globetrotter
Credit: Michael Boyle For decades, biologists have captured tiny sea star larvae in their nets that did not match the ...
The ur-Iris likely had purple flowers, pollinated by insects for nectar
Scientists deduce what the last common ancestor of irises looked likeCredit: The authors The genus Iris of flowering plants -- ...
Primates aren’t quite frogs
Spinal modules in macaques can independently control forelimb force direction and magnitudeCredit: The National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry Japan ...
Ancient tiny teeth reveal first mammals lived more like reptiles
Credit: Graphics: Nuria Melisa Morales Garcia. Morganucodon based on Bob Nicholls/ Palaeocreations 2018 model Pioneering analysis of 200 million-year-old teeth ...
Genomes offer new insights into fig-wasp symbiotic system
Credit: WANG Gang Banyan trees are fig trees that begin their life as an epiphyte. The most noticeable feature of ...
Scientists reconstruct beetles from the Cretaceous
International research team gains new insights into the evolution of fossil beetlesCredit: D. Peris & R. Kundrata et al. / ...
Zoologists uncover new example of rapid evolution – meet the Sulawesi Babblers
Credit: Trinity College Dublin. Zoologists from Trinity College Dublin, working in tropical Southeast Asia, have uncovered a modern-day example of ...
Genomic study reveals evolutionary secrets of banyan tree
Credit: Photo by Gang Wang CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The banyan fig tree Ficus microcarpa is famous for its aerial roots, ...
