Tag: Evolution

UMD study suggests caution is needed for research that presumes closely related species use the same genes for similar functionsCredit: ...

Recent findings suggest the repeated evolution of similar traits in island lizards was not channelled by developmental responses to the ...

Credit: Christine Hirschberger, University of Cambridge) The emergence of jaws in primitive fish allowed vertebrates to become top predators. What ...

The debate about when dinosaurs developed feathers has taken a new turn with a paper refuting earlier claims that feathers ...

Credit: Valk/ MPI CBS The location of a country on the earth says a lot about its climate, its neighboring ...

Münster University researchers develop web app for comparing genomesCredit: Erk Wibberg Evolution leaves its traces in particular in genomes. Pinpointing ...

Credit: George Poinar Jr., Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - An Oregon State University study has identified four new species ...

Credit: Winai Suthanthangjai While the majority of snakes would normally swallow their prey whole, the Small-banded Kukri Snake seems to ...

New specimens from Ice Age of China provide clues to origin of pack-hunting in modern wolvesCredit: Mairin Balisi Wolves today ...

First-of-its-kind international study is rooted in 17 million year-old whale fossilCredit: Isaiah Nengo STONY BROOK, NY, (Under Embargo until September ...

Neandertals have adopted male sex chromosome from modern humansCredit: MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology In 1997, the very first Neandertal DNA ...

Researchers from Yale-NUS College and Carnegie Mellon University have discovered that tarantulas have the ability to see in colour, contrary ...

Concentrate on your own task but also pay attention to others -- this is the key rule for success, at ...

Researchers at INRS uncover a new parvovirus strategy for reaching the cell nucleusCredit: INRS Researchers at the Institut national de ...

Report: Combination increases brain damage and development riskCredit: Houston University of Houston researchers have found that during early pregnancy, the ...

Researchers study relationship of morphological variation and biological diversity in plantsCredit: Photo: Marcus Koch Genome duplications play a major role ...

Applications could include sensing in robotics and autonomous vehiclesCredit: Charles J. Sharp EVANSTON, Ill. --- All animals great and small ...

Analysis published in Scientific Reports is based on climate models for the mid-Pliocene period, which occurred 3 million years ago ...

Portsmouth Palaeontologists establish Spinosaurus was a real life 'river monster'Credit: Davide Bonadonna A discovery of more than a thousand dinosaur ...

Credit: Evolutionary Applications The traditional rice-based diet of some east-Asian population has brought to a number of genomic adaptations that ...