Tag: Evolution

Credit: Crystal Shin Hibernation is a familiar feature on Earth today. Many animals -- especially those that live close to ...

Credit: John Sibbick The first complete dinosaur skeleton ever identified has finally been studied in detail and found its place ...

POPOVICH gene controlling development of nectar spur in AquilegiaCredit: Courtesy of Elena Kramer The evolution of novel features - traits ...

Credit: Michel Melcher An international team of researchers has discovered a new group of Chlamydiae - Anoxychlamydiales - living under ...

Researchers have reconstructed the ancestral relationships of the hillstream loach family tree, detailing for the first time a range of ...

Avoiding infectious disease is a protective instinct in humans and animals but the instinct to socialize often wins the dayCredit: ...

Female bird song research led disproportionately by women over the last 20 years has fundamentally changed scientists' understanding of avian ...

How are information, disease, and social evolution linked?Credit: Kyoto University/Andrew MacIntosh Changing ties that naturally bind How are information, disease, ...

Credit: Per Jensen Researchers from Linköping University suggest a process by which the timid junglefowl from the rain forest could ...

Tanpopo mission addresses the possibility of natural interplanetary transport of microbial life called panspermiaCredit: JAXA/NASA Imagine microscopic life-forms, such as ...

Credit: Cristian Bonilla Poveda URBANA, Ill. - Imagine a tropical forest and you might conjure up tall trees hung with ...

Researchers use fossilized teeth to reveal dietary shifts in ancient herbivores and homininsCredit: Zeresenay Alemseged A new study published this ...

Credit: Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research The six-year-long program is part of a large-scale initiative from the SSF, aligned with ...

Researchers analyze thousands of microbial genomes and discover that two abundant groups produce energy using ancient methods that may predate ...

Future possibilities include controlling size of crop leavesCredit: Photo by Hirokazu Tsukaya, CC BY Clinging to the walls of tropical ...

Scientists identified a new ichnospecies from the shell of an extinct marine turtle fossil, the first known species coexisting on ...

Revival of research at significant paleontological site in Eastern Europe includes focus on when humans migrated to Eurasia from AfricaCredit: ...

Even Tyrannosaurus rex could have suffered a slipped discCredit: (c) Tanja Wintrich/Uni Bonn The intervertebral discs connect the vertebrae and ...

Credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech Reduced resilience of plant biomes in North America could be setting the stage for the ...

New fossil species belongs to a group of extant starfish-like creatures living in the deep sea todayCredit: Dr Ben Thuy ...