New beetle-dwelling roundworm species discovered in Japan
Cryptaphelenchus abietis, a new nematode species isolated from bark beetles that emerged from a dead log in Nagano, Japan, may ...
Tag: Evolution
Parrot talk
Credit: Photo Heidi M. Thomsen During flock encounters, a single vocal interaction seems to be sufficient for making the decision ...
Coelacanths may live nearly a century, five times longer than researchers expected
Credit: Laurent Ballesta Once thought to be extinct, lobe-finned coelacanths are enormous fish that live deep in the ocean. Now, ...
Stoneflies: Youth influences adulthood
Evolutionary biologists at the University of Bonn scan 219 species in different particle acceleratorsCredit: © Peter T. Rühr In the ...
Yeast mating — more than meets the eye
Pheromones mediate asymmetric mating behavior in isogamous yeastCredit: Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology/Sourjik Researchers from the Max-Planck Institute for ...
Poison frog tadpoles can survive (almost) anywhere
From orange juice to sea water, and between the ground and 4-story buildingCredit: Andrius Pašukonis/Stanford University A group of researchers ...
Fossil research shows woodlice cousins roamed Ireland 360 million years ago
New techniques used to recreate the image of the Oxyuropoda - the cousin of the garden woodliceCredit: Diane Dabir Moghaddam. ...
Drone footage reveals social secrets of killer whales
Credit: University of Exeter Killer whales have complex social structures including close "friendships", according to a new study that used ...
Plants use a blend of external influences to evolve defense mechanisms
Findings reveal how plants use a blend of genes, geography, demography and environmental conditions to evolve defense chemicals over timeCredit: ...
Persistence pays off in the human gut microbiome
Credit: Earlham Institute/Quadram Institute/EMBL The human gut microbiome is a complex community of trillions of microbes that are constantly interacting ...
Mary Jane West Eberhard receives Linnean Medal for Zoology
Credit: STRI Mary Jane West Eberhard, staff scientist emeritus at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama, has just ...
Study presents new species of bizarre, extinct lizard previously misidentified as a bird
Credit: Stephanie Abramowicz/Peretti Museum Foundation/Current Biology GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- An international research team has described a new species of Oculudentavis, ...
Are we genetically ‘grounded’?
Hebrew University identifies molecular factors that enable birds to fly, but keep the rest of us on terra firmaCredit: Baruch ...
How butterflies make transparent wings: MBL scientists see the invisible
Credit: Nipam Patel WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Many animals have evolved camouflage tactics for self-defense, but some butterflies and moths ...
Discovery of the oldest plant fossils on the African continent!
A new study describes a particularly diverse fossil flora from 400 million year ago.Credit: ©Univeristé de Liège The analysis of ...
Monarchs raised in captivity can orient themselves for migration, U of G study reveals
While captive rearing may cause temporary disorientation, researchers found if Monarchs are given time in the wild to calibrate their ...
Experiments show natural selection opposes sexual selection
Credit: University of Exeter Natural selection can reverse evolution that occurs through sexual selection and this can lead to better ...
10,000-year-old DNA pens the first tales of the earliest domesticated goats
Credit: The 'Tracking Cultural and Environmental Change project'. New research has revealed the genetic makeup of the earliest goat herds. ...
Paleontologists for the first time discover the pierced skull of a Pleistocene cave bear
Probably the find is the only evidence in the world that ancient people hunted Pleistocene small cave bearsCredit: UrFU / ...
Did heat from impacts on asteroids provide the ingredients for life on Earth?
Credit: Yasui et al. (2021) A research group from Kobe University has demonstrated that the heat generated by the impact ...