The mummified sheep leg from which DNA was obtained. Image courtesy of Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and Zanjan Cultural Heritage Centre, Archaeological Museum of Zanjan. Credit:…
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How do you study a group of organisms with over 300,000 species, dispersed across all seven continents, and with up to 50 times as much…
Shiikuwasha have an important commercial value in Okinawa and are used to create many different products. Within Okinawa, Oogimi and Katsuyama are the biggest citrus…
The species of turtle involved in the study is Apalone spinifera, a species of freshwater turtles native to North America. But the researchers say their…
The attached image shows a flock Pterodaustro guinazui. Credit: Dr. Mark Witton Newly-hatched pterosaurs may have been able to fly but their flying abilities may…
In spotted hyena societies, inherited social networks — passed from mothers to offspring — are essential to hyena life and survival, according to a new…
Most of the viruses were previously unknown to humans, study finds. Scientists who study glacier ice have found viruses nearly 15,000 years old in two…
A massive study of data collected over 27 years, published today in the journal Science, sheds new light on social networks, rank and survival of…
Tsetse fly giving birth. Credit: Daniel Hargrove The female tsetse fly, which gives birth to adult-sized live young, produce weaker offspring as they get older,…
A Spartan-led research team has uncovered an answer — at least for the most recent population decline — with a huge assist from volunteers. Michigan…
Water collects on mosses. The first land plants were thought to be non-vascular, like mosses. Credit: Katmai Preserve NPS Photo/Russ Taylor The arrival of plants…
For the first time ever, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine discovered that phages — tiny viruses that attack bacteria — are…
Image of the locality of the study area in the Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa. Credit: A. Hofmann A team of international researchers, led…
A tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) swimming at the surface with a biologging package attached to dorsal fin. This package records temperature, swimming speed, depth, body…
Life reconstruction of Heterodontosaurus vocalizing on a cool Jurassic morning. Credit: Viktor Radermacher An international team of scientists has used high-powered X-rays at the European…
Artistic reconstruction of four representative alvarezsauroids, Haplocheirus sollers (left), Patagonykus puertai (upper middle), Linhenykus monodactylus (lower middle) and Bannykus wulatensis (lower right), illustrating the body…
Chuandianella ovata, an extinct shrimp-like crustacean. Credit: Xianfeng Yang, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology, Yunnan University Deposit contains exceptionally preserved fossils of soft-bodied, juvenile organisms…
Genomic evidence for the Chinese mountain cat as a wildcat conspecific (Felis silvestris bieti) and its introgression to domestic cats. Analyses of genomic data suggest…
One of the 2.7 billion year-old diamonds used in this work. Credit: Michael Broadley A unique study of ancient diamonds has shown that the basic…
Research by Gustavo Caetano-Anollés and Fayez Aziz, University of Illinois, reveals a “big bang” during evolution of protein subunits known as domains. The team looked…