Skeletal study suggests at least 11 fish species are capable of walking
Credit: Zachary Randall/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- An international team of scientists has identified at least 11 species of fish ...
Tag: Evolution
Fossil growth reveals insights into the climate
Researchers at the Universities of Bonn and Opole examined bones of the puzzling Panthasaurus maleriensisCredit: Elzbieta M. Teschner Panthasaurus maleriensis ...
New insights into evolution of gene expression
Credit: Graphic: Kenji Fukushima / University of Wuerzburg Vertebrate organs organize physiological activities, and the diverse expression patterns of thousands ...
The oldest Neanderthal DNA of Central-Eastern Europe
An 80,000-year-old Neanderthal reveals cultural and genetic affinities between Poland and the Northern CaucasusCredit: Marcin ?arski Around 100,000 years ago, ...
Do big tadpoles turn into big frogs? It’s complicated, study finds
According to the first research study addressing evolutionary rates of larval and adult life stages at a large scale, the ...
In butterfly battle of sexes, males deploy ‘chastity belts’ but females fight back
Credit: Jeff Gage/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Some male butterflies go to extreme lengths to ensure their paternity - sealing ...
A 400-year-old chamois will serve as a model for research on ice mummies
Discovered in Val Aurina, South Tyrol (Italy) and now in the laboratory of Eurac Research's mummy experts, the remains will ...
True size of prehistoric mega-shark finally revealed
A new study led by the University of Bristol and Swansea University has revealed the size of the legendary giant ...
Anthropologist receives NSF funding to explore new fossil site in Kenya
The work will lead to a better understanding of the origins of modern humans at the time they migrated out ...
How to get the upper body of a burrowing frog
Credit: Gregory Jongsma GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- You might think the buffest frogs would be high jumpers, but if you want ...
Scientists discover earliest fossil evidence of an insect lichen mimic
The discovery that a Jurassic moth lacewing mimicked a co-occurring fossil lichen to promote survival predates modern lichen-insect associations by ...
How to weigh a dinosaur
Researchers from the University of New England and Royal Ontario Museum shed new light on long-debated topic of dinosaur weightCredit: ...
Red fox displaces Arctic fox thanks to littering
Trash draws scavengers to places they might not otherwise goCredit: NINA, game camera Animal species that are at home in ...
Fossil trees on Peru’s Central Andean Plateau tell a tale of dramatic environmental change
Credit: Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute On an expedition to the Central Andean Plateau, researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical ...
Capturing big picture connection of macro- and micro-evolution – NSF grant
Credit: Virginia Tech Scientists know a lot about evolution. And like, evolution, this knowledge is always changing, growing, becoming stronger. ...
The northern quoll: An amazingly versatile survivor?
Credit: Nellie Pease The northern quoll, one of Australia's most adorable and endangered native carnivores, appears to be adapted to ...
Genomes published for major agricultural weeds
Credit: Steve Bowe, BASF URBANA, Ill. - Representing some of the most troublesome agricultural weeds, waterhemp, smooth pigweed, and Palmer ...
Evidence of hibernation-like state in Antarctic animal
Researchers discover Fossil evidence of 'hibernation-like' state in tusks of 250-million-year-old Antarctic animalCredit: Crystal Shin Among the many winter survival ...
How sticklebacks dominate perch
Analysis reveals waves of stickleback domination along the Baltic coastCredit: Mårten Erlandsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences A research project ...
New genetic markers of glucosinolates in rapeseed may help improve oil composition
Credit: Rim Gubaev et al./Genes A group of scientists from Skoltech and Pustovoit All-Russian Research Institute of Oil Crops in ...
