Similar to humans, chimpanzees develop slowly
Chimpanzees need more than five years to acquire key skillsCredit: Tatiana Bortolato, Taï Chimpanzee Project Few species develop as slowly ...
Tag: Evolution
Bumblebees speed up flowering
Credit: Photograph: Hannier Pulido / ETH Zurich Spring has sprung earlier than ever before this year, accompanied by temperatures more ...
HKU ecologists and international team discover ongoing and future tropical diversity decline
Credit: Katsunori Kimoto How can patterns in the marine biodiversity of the past help us to understand how it may ...
7,000 years of demographic history in France
Credit: © Eva-Maria Geigl et Thierry Grange, Institut Jacques Monod (CNRS/Université de Paris) A team led by scientists from the ...
Migration patterns reveal an Eden for ancient humans and animals
Credit: N/A Pinnacle Point, a series of archaeological sites that overlook a now submerged section of South Africa's coastline and ...
First fossil nursery of the great white shark discovered
Paleo-kindergarten ensured evolutionary success millions of years agoCredit: ©Jaime Villafaña/Juergen Kriwet The great white shark is one of the most ...
How the darter got stripes: Expanding a sexual selection theory explains animal patterns
New research from UMBC demonstrates a strong correlation between the patterns on male darter fish and their habitats, supporting and ...
Sex as stress management in microbes
Credit: Valerio Vitali Why is sex so popular? The question of why so many organisms reproduce sexually has mystified evolutionary ...
How cosmic rays may have shaped life
Credit: Simons Foundation Before there were animals, bacteria or even DNA on Earth, self-replicating molecules were slowly evolving their way ...
Researchers reveal origins of complex hemoglobin by resurrecting ancient proteins
Credit: Photo by G. Hochberg. Most biological processes are carried out by complexes of multiple proteins that work together to ...
Supercomputer model simulations reveal cause of Neanderthal extinction
Credit: IBS Climate scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics discover that, contrary to previously held beliefs, Neanderthal extinction ...
Fishing rod ‘selfie stick’ and scientific sleuthing turn up clues to extinct sea reptile
Skeleton high on a London museum wall -- mostly ignored for a century -- spurs a study finding that the ...
Ecosystem diversity drives the origin of new shark and ray species
How oceanographic conditions in the Gulf of California and the Baja California Peninsula influenced formation of new species of sharks ...
Madagascar copal: New dating for an Antropocene ancient resin
This material is not a semi-fossilized resinCredit: Xavier Delclòs (UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA-IRBio) The known Madagascar copal is a more recent ...
Mother roundworms have ultra-protective instincts
New study shows animals pass signals to future offspring to warn them of dangerCredit: Catherine Dvorak, University of Iowa Talk ...
Analysis of bird species reveals how wings adapted to their environment and behavior
Credit: Photo in the public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poecile_Montanus_Kittila_20120306.JPG Bird wings adapted for long-distance flight are linked to their environment and behaviour, ...
Pensoft signs with Senckenberg Nature Research Society to publish three journals on ARPHA
Credit: Pensoft and Senckenberg Nature Research Society Recently, the scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft signed with one of the ...
Global cooling event 4,200 years ago spurred rice’s evolution, spread across asia
Scientists use genomics, archeology, and climate data to reconstruct history of riceCredit: Rafal Gutaker, New York University A major global ...
Metagenomics reveals distinct microbiotypes in the giant clams Tridacna maxima
Credit: Dr. Lauric Thiault New research conducted at CRIOBE and ENTROPIE research units, with the collaboration of the Swire institute ...
A lost world and extinct ecosystem
Credit: Erich Fisher Archaeological sites on the far southern shores of South Africa hold the world's richest records for the ...
