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Researchers Uncover New Clues to Surviving Extinction

March 15, 2019

Ecological transformation in the wake of the "Great Dying" moves scientists closer to understanding the nature of recovery...

Fossil Teeth from Kenya Solve Ancient Monkey Mystery

March 13, 2019

The finding also sheds light on how their diet may have changed the course of the monkeys' evolution

Study Confirms Horseshoe Crabs Are Really Relatives of Spiders, Scorpions

March 11, 2019

Horseshoe crabs were thought to be ancestors of the arachnids, but molecular sequence data have always been sparse enough to ...

New Species of Tiny Tyrannosaur Foreshadows Rise of T. Rex

February 22, 2019

A newly discovered, diminutive—by T. rex standards—relative of the tyrant king of dinosaurs reveals cru...

Uncovering the Evolution of the Brain

February 13, 2019

Humans are genetically similar to chimpanzees and bonobos, yet there exist obvious behavioral and cognitive differences...

Mosquitoes That Carry Malaria May Have Been Doing So 100 Million Years Ago

February 12, 2019

The findings may shed fresh light on the history of a disease that continues to kill more than 400,000 people annually...

Artificial Intelligence Applied to the Genome Identifies an Unknown Human Ancestor

January 17, 2019

Scientists use deep learning for the first time ever to account for human evolution

Scans Reveal How World’s First Dogs Caught Prey

January 15, 2019

Analysis of the skulls of lions, wolves, and hyenas has helped scientists uncover how prehistoric dogs hunted 40 million year...

Space Microbes Aren't so Alien after All

January 9, 2019

Genetic evidence shows bacteria on the International Space Station are adapting to survive, not to harm

Should Researchers Engineer a Spicy Tomato?

January 8, 2019

With the latest gene-editing techniques, it could be possible, although challenging, to make a tomato produce capsaicinoids...

Scientists: 'Time Is Ripe' to Use Big Data for Planet-Sized Plant Questions

January 2, 2019

A group of scientists has issued a "call to action" to use big data to tackle longstanding questions about plant diversity...

How Much Are We Learning? Natural Selection Is Science’s Best Critic

December 18, 2018

Researchers have already concluded that a mere one percent of the human genome is made up of the genes that make the proteins...

Neandertal Genes Give Clues to Human Brain Evolution

December 14, 2018

Present-day humans who carry particular Neandertal DNA fragments have heads that are slightly less rounded

Otago Researchers Discover Information about a Gene That Helps Define Us as Humans

December 11, 2018

Broadly speaking, this gene can be thought of as one of the genetic factors that make us human in a neurological sense

Scientists Discover How Birds, Dinosaurs Evolved to Dazzle with Colorful Displays

December 10, 2018

Birds produce varying coloration in their feathers by using nanoscale arrays of melanin-filled organelles layered with kerati...

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