Tag: Evolution

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A recent study of centuries-old French-Canadian genealogical data by a Brown University economist revealed evidence that supports ...

Credit: Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni On the Hawaiian island of Oahu, it is possible to stand in a lush tropical forest that ...

Ancient fossil named as new speciesCredit: Joschua Knüppe A newly identified species of 150 million-year-old marine crocodile has given insights ...

Credit: Hanna Støstad The research was part of the thesis of PhD student Hanna Nyborg Støstad, investigating the peculiar spiral ...

Credit: Bernard Goffinet/UConn Photo In a Nature Communications paper published today, an international research team including UConn's Bernard Goffinet used ...

Credit: Sandra Ribeiro The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) announced today that the 2019 SMBE Allan Wilson Junior ...

In two new species of rare giant stick insects, males turn livid blue or multicolored at sexual maturity -- but ...

A long-nosed fly from the Jurassic of Central Asia, reported by Russian paleontologists, provides new evidence that insects have started ...

Credit: University of Exeter Artefacts such as bows and arrows do not necessarily prove our ancestors had sophisticated reasoning and ...

Credit: Maxime Derex Are the technologies produced by human civilisations the result of our intellectual abilities or our capacity for ...

LAWRENCE -- A study to be published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a scientific ...

Fossil site preserves animals killed within minutes of meteor impactCredit: Graphic courtesy of Robert DePalma The beginning of the end ...

Study explores the coevolution of lifespans and plasticity Several fish species can change sex as needed. Other species adapt to ...

There are no signs that hybrids of dog and wolf have contributed to the Scandinavian wolf population - a matter ...

Paper published in Scientific Reports describes paleontologists' unearthing part of a skull, illustrating that there is much to learn about ...

Survey by researchers in 16 countries is published in Science. Authors say chytrid fungus is responsible for heaviest biodiversity loss ...

Credit: Nathan Schroeder, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - The soybean cyst nematode, one of the crop's most destructive pests, ...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of Alabama at Birmingham aging expert -- and once-upon-a-time lion trainer -- Steven Austad, ...

Credit: Meryl Mims, Virginia Tech A multi-institutional team of researchers, led by Meryl Mims, has assessed how environmental, demographic, and ...

Credit: Stephen Bilenky TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Roughly 430 million years ago, during the Earth's Silurian Period, global oceans were experiencing ...