An example of what a complete fish fossil coelacanth looks like. This one is from the Jurassic of German. Credit: Professor David Martill, University of…
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The common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis. Credit: Roger Hanlon Much like the popular TikTok challenge where kids resist eating snacks, cuttlefish can do the same! Cuttlefish…
Small changes in form can lead to innovative breakthroughs in function, a new study reveals. Researchers have revealed how an ant’s trap-jaw — a powerful,…
3.5 billion-year-old barite (bottom) with fossilized microbial mat (top). This barite is part of the Dresser Formation in NW Australia. Credit: Helge Missbach A research…
The slime mold Physarum polycephalum consists of a single biological cell. Microinjection allows to mark the flow in Physarum in color. Credit: Bjoern Kscheschinski /…
New research suggests offspring of enormous carnivorous dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, may have fundamentally re-shaped their communities by out-competing smaller rival species. Credit: UNM…
How long-chain molecules are formed. Credit: © LMU LMU physicists demonstrate that fundamental characteristics of polymeric molecules, such as their subunit composition, are sufficient to…
Stromatolites at Shark Bay, Western Australia. Credit: UNSW Sydney/Brendan Burns As the Mars Rover sets out to look for evidence of life on another planet,…
New research has found that a group of genes that reduces the risk of developing severe COVID-19 by around 20% is inherited from Neanderthals. Credit:…
Māori wrasse are large, colorful fish that can be found on the Great Barrier Reef. In a ground-breaking new study, scientists used innovative molecular techniques…
Neanderthal-ized brain organoids (left) look very different than modern human brain organoids (right) — they have a distinctly different shape, and differ in the way…
Ellsworth Mountains, on transit to Subglacial Lake Ellsworth, December 2012. Credit: Peter Bucktrout, British Antarctic Survey Lakes underneath the Antarctic ice sheet could be more…
Ecological reconstruction of Cretophengodes azari. Credit: Dinghua Yang Bioluminescence has fascinated people since time immemorial. The majority of organisms able to produce their own light…
Wasps provide crucial support to their extended families by babysitting at neighboring nests, according to new research by a team of biologists from the universities…
Sahas Barve, a Peter Buck Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, led a new study to examine feathers across 249 species of…
Three conformations of the DNA double helix: A (left), B (center) and left-handed Z (right). Credit: David S. Goodsell and RCSB PDB Genetic code evolution…
This cranium from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco is often called a modern human ancestor. The meaning of that ancestry is discussed and disentangled in a…
Vertebrate evolution timeline. Credit: Dr. Guojie Zhang People traditionally think that lungs and limbs are key innovations that came with the vertebrate transition from water…
Artist’s impression of Macrospondylus- an extinct fossil group of teleosauriods. Credit: Nikolay Zverkov Scientists probing a prehistoric crocodile group’s shadowy past have discovered a timeless…
Estimated increase in the local number of bat species due to shifts in their geographical ranges driven by climate change since 1901. The zoomed-in area…