Tag: Evolution

Credit: Opencage/Wikimedia and Anna Weiss/ The University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences. Climate change is bad news for coral ...

Princeton physicists and biologists collaborate to study how cells use molecular information during developmentCredit: Illustration by Mariela Petkova The first ...

Study captures one of the clearest pictures yet of evolution in vertebrates What do you get when you put together ...

Credit: Bevilacqua Laboratory, Penn State Membraneless assemblies of positively- and negatively-charged molecules can bring together RNA molecules in dense liquid ...

Recommended steps to preserve genetic composition include isolating pure species and removal of hybrids from the wildCredit: Eddy Lee Kam ...

Credit: Photo taken by Asato Kuroiwa A look at the brains of an endangered spiny rat off the coast of ...

Credit: Photo: Matthias Klapproth Life on earth is complex and diverse. In the course of evolution, more and more new ...

Credit: Martin Qvarnström Coprolites, or fossil droppings, of the dinosaur-like archosaur Smok wawelski contain lots of chewed-up bone fragments. This ...

Credit: Dr. Dietmar Zinner Recent studies suggest that closely related species can develop significant genetic and phenotypic differences throughout their ...

Scientists discover two mechanisms at work in crustacean's dazzling light displays Evolution is a rich and dynamic process. Species respond ...

Credit: Photo: Andrew MacColl Genetic analysis of sticklebacks shows that isolated populations in similar environments develop in comparable ways. The ...

Credit: João Trovão To be listed as UNESCO World Heritage requires special care and protection of valuable cultural monuments and ...

New review compares the regional adaptations of humans and those of other hominin species to add support to the argument ...

New genomic data from 5 birds-of-paradise reveal genes that are shaped by selection and help explain the origin of their ...

Credit: Nicholas Gladstone/University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Researchers at UT have discovered the largest individual of any cave salamander in North ...

Over the past 40 years, there has been a dramatic decline in fishery landings of an iconic Baltic Sea fish: ...

Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba: While fighting over females for the right to breed is common among male animals in ...

New study says modern-day crocodiles and alligators came from variety of surroundings A new study throws into question the notion ...

Forty-two years after Carl Woese defined archaea as the third domain of life, scientists at the Carl R. Woese Institute ...

Have you ever wondered why the Megalodon shark became to be so big? Or wondered why some other sharks are ...