Baby mantis shrimp don’t pull their punches
Tiny pugilists give scientists a clear view of their lock and spring elbowsCredit: Jacob Harrison - Duke University DURHAM, N.C. ...
Tag: Evolution
Plankton have a genome like no other
Credit: © 2021 KAUST The genome of single-celled plankton, known as dinoflagellates, is organized in an incredibly strange and unusual ...
Corals that “spit” algae
An ancient immune response regulates the development of beneficial symbiosesCredit: Natascha Bechtoldt Microalgae of the dinoflagellate group are known for ...
How reef-building corals got their bones
Credit: © 2021 Morgan Bennett Smith Coral reefs provide shelter, sustenance and stability to a range of organisms, but these ...
Molecular biologists travel back in time 3 billion years
Credit: David Naylor A research group working at Uppsala University has succeeded in studying 'translation factors' - important components of ...
Unlocking herbaria biodiversity using a QR code sampling-to-sequencing workflow
Credit: California Academy of Sciences Within the past decade, next-generation sequencing technologies have revolutionized the way in which genetic data ...
Research on Lake Victoria cichlids uncovers the processes of rapid species adaptation
Credit: Tokyo Tech Biologists use the term adaptive radiation to describe a phenomenon in which new species rapidly evolve from ...
Proposal of new universal nomenclature for oxytocin and vasotocin genes
Terminological confusion between speciesCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Oxytocin and arginine vasopressin are two hormones in the endocrine system that can ...
New duckbilled dinosaur discovered in Japan
Paleontologists find second hadrosaurid speciesCredit: Artwork by Masato Hattori. DALLAS (SMU) - An international team of paleontologists has identified a ...
How does a nose evolve into a blowhole? Study suggests there’s more than one way
Toothed and baleen whales show different patterns of blowhole developmentCredit: Rachel Roston. The two major types of cetaceans appear to ...
Extinct ‘horned’ crocodile gets new spot in the tree of life
New ancient DNA-based study on Madagascar crocodile suggests that modern crocodiles likely originated in AfricaCredit: M. Ellison/©AMNH A study led ...
Researcher questions whether powered flight appeared on non-avialan dinosaurs
Francisco Serrano, from University of Malaga, refutes this conclusion published in 2020 in the absence of scientific evidenceCredit: F.J. Serrano. ...
Chinese hazelnut: The newest piece in the hazelnut genome puzzle
Scientists from China assembled a high-quality genome of Chinese hazelnut and were able to identify several genes of economic importanceCredit: ...
Genome sequencing delivers hope and warning for the survival of the Sumatran rhinoceros
Credit: Scuba Zoo A study led by researchers at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm shows that the last remaining ...
From corals to crops: How life protects the plans for its cellular power stations
Credit: Gemma Lofthouse An international team of researchers led by the University of Bergen has uncovered how organisms from crops ...
First description of a new octopus species without using a scalpel
Biologists at the University of Bonn use state-of-the-art non-destructive methods to study an octopus from the deep seaCredit: © Alexander ...
Defense mechanisms in aphids can become a double-edged sword, sharpened by the seasons
Protective endosymbiont dynamics in pea aphids are sharpened by selectionCredit: Drexel University/Linyao Peng Evolution is unfolding in real time within ...
Red Sea is no longer a baby ocean
Hidden structures reveal 13 million years of seafloor spreadingCredit: GEOMAR It is 2,250 kilometers long, but only 355 kilometers wide ...
Climate-friendly microbes chomp dead plants without releasing heat-trapping methane
Credit: Jian-Yu Jiao/Sun Yat-Sen University The tree of life just got a little bigger: A team of scientists from the ...
Why the human body has not evolved to make childbirth easier — or has it?
Credit: The University of Texas at Austin. AUSTIN, Texas -- Despite advances in medicine and technology, childbirth isn't likely to ...