Tag: Evolution

Credit: Lucy Taylor New research publishing June 18 in the open-access journal, PLOS Biology, led by Dr Lucy Taylor from ...

Scientists didn't find ancient DNA or proteins in fossils, but they did find lots of strange microbesCredit: Nobu Tamura Bad ...

Credit: Charles and Sasha Langley Geneticists exploring the dark heart of the human genome have discovered big chunks of Neanderthal ...

Credit: Nicholas Guttenberg As Charles Darwin wrote in at the end of his seminal 1859 book On the Origin of ...

Credit: Jennifer Weathered/Utah State University The common perception that pesticides reduce or eliminate target insect species may not always hold. ...

Computed tomography scans of fossils from two extinct species point to evolutionary adaptations and kinship with extant howler, spider and ...

Credit: The University of Portsmouth Dogs have evolved new muscles around the eyes to better communicate with humans. New research ...

UMass Amherst genomicist explores how natural selection shaped gene copy numbersCredit: US Fish and Wildlife Service Scientists from the University ...

Credit: Simon Morley Oxygen concentrations in both the open ocean and coastal waters have declined by 2-5% since at least ...

Video of paramo moving up and down mountainsides puts climate change in contextCredit: Catalina Giraldo A new video shows how ...

Award includes four years of funding to explore biomedicine's most challenging questionsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst biologist Lillian ...

State-of-the-art technologies reveal bacterial cells organized like human cells, offering insights for new phage therapies on untreatable infectionsCredit: Video created ...

Credit: Artwork by Katrina Kenny Fossils of a giant new species from the long-extinct group of sea creatures called trilobites ...

The rodent mothers are more likely to become pregnant after smelling odors produced by conspecific males frightened by predatorsCredit: University ...