Bid to reconstruct richness of prehistoric oceans
Credit: Paul Butler Scientists are reconstructing the world's "pristine" prehistoric oceans. Ocean conservation is a global concern, but the researchers ...
Tag: Evolution
Carnivorous plant study captures universal rules of leaf making
Credit: Karen Lee, Yohei Koide, John Fozard and Claire Bushell. Leaves display a remarkable range of forms from flat sheets ...
NSF award helps Kent State anthropologists expand international partnership
Credit: Kent State University A new federal grant will help Kent State University expand an international relationship and provide invaluable ...
Reef fish caring for their young are taken advantage of by other fish
Biologists have reported the first evidence of brood parasitism in coral reef fish, finding unrelated young fish in groups of ...
Threshold-dependent gene drives in wild populations
Credit: James Gathany The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. By altering the ...
How bats relocate in response to tree loss
Credit: Brock Fenton Identifying how groups of animals select where to live is important for understanding social dynamics and for ...
Meet the ‘mold pigs,’ a new group of invertebrates from 30 million years ago
Credit: Provided by George Poinar Jr. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Fossils preserved in Dominican amber reveal a new family, genus and ...
The deeper these octopuses live, the wartier their skin
Credit: Ocean Networks Canada/ CSSF-ROPOS Deep beneath the ocean's surface, surprisingly cute warty pink octopuses creep along the seafloor. But ...
Was early stick insect evolution triggered by birds and mammals?
Research team led by the University of Göttingen reveals early evolution of stick insectsCredit: Christoph Seiler Stick and leaf insects ...
The last mammoths died on a remote island
Credit: Juha Karhu The last woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean; they died out 4,000 years ...
Imprinting on mothers may drive new species formation in poison dart frogs
What do marrying one's parents, Oedipus complex have to do with evolution?Credit: STRI archives The old saying that people marry ...
How the Texas puma saved the Florida panther
Uncovering the genetic details of a conservation success storyCredit: Photo courtesy of Carlton Ward Jr. @carltonward COLUMBUS, Ohio - Scientists ...
African evidence support Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
First African evidence to support hypothesis of an asteroid impact that contributed to the extinction of large animals 12,800 years ...
Species could buffer reproduction against climate change through sperm and egg plasticity
Credit: University of East Anglia Beetles have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to reproduce despite warmer temperatures - according to new research ...
Why are there no animals with three legs?
Credit: Tracy J. Thomson in BioEssays If "Why?" is the first question in science, "Why not?" must be a close ...
Ancient genomes provide insight into the genetic history of the second plague pandemic
Analysis of 34 ancient plague genomes from the Black Death and succeeding plague epidemics in Europe between the 14th and ...
250-million-year-old evolutionary remnants seen in muscles of human embryos
Credit: Rui Diogo, Natalia Siomava and Yorick Gitton A team of evolutionary biologists, led by Dr. Rui Diogo at Howard ...
Biologists track the invasion of herbicide-resistant weeds into southwestern Ontario
Credit: Julia Kreiner TORONTO, ON (Canada) - A team including evolutionary biologists from the University of Toronto (U of T) ...
What did ancient crocodiles eat? Study says as much as a snout can grab
Credit: Envato While most people imagine alligators and crocodiles as being much the same now as they were during the ...
Brave new world: Simple changes in intensity of weather events ‘could be lethal’
Credit: NOAA Hurricane Dorian is the latest example of a frightening trend. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, more ...
