Researchers from Tohoku University’s Graduate School of Life Sciences have discovered a connection between the neuropeptides that regulate food intake in jellyfish and fruit flies,…
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Researchers have compared the genomes of woolly mammoths and modern-day elephants to identify the unique characteristics of woolly mammoths. In a study published in Current…
Image of fruit belonging to Palaeophytocrene chicoensis. The Sierra College Museum of Natural History is the permanent repository for this fossil. Credit: Brian Atkinson An…
Example of a long-tailed macaque using a stone tool to access food. Credit: Lydia V. Luncz Macaques unintentionally created stone fragments that bear a resemblance…
The origin of life is a scientific mystery that has captivated researchers for centuries. While there are many theories about how life first arose on…
Fossil of the Late Jurassic shark Protospinax annectans from Solnhofen and Eichstätt, Germany. Credit: Sebastian Stumpf The evolutionary history of sharks and rays has been…
As the moniker fairy lantern denotes, it looks like a tiny lantern that illuminates the dark forest floor. Credit: Kenji Suetsugu Green leaves and the…
This illustration of early Earth includes liquid water as well as magma seeping from the planet’s core due to a large impact. Scientists at NASA…
The worm for which the researchers sequenced the genome. Credit: Queen Mary University of London Scientists show a link between the time of activation of…
A selection from the zooplankton collection at the NTNU University Museum. The collection is safely stored in anticipation of future researchers, who may find it…
Neanderthals were a species of archaic humans that lived in Europe and Asia from around 400,000 to 40,000 years ago. The remains of hunted animals…
Evolution is the process by which species of living organisms change over time. It is a central concept in the field of biology and is…
A Nile crocodile swallows an impala, its reward for lying in wait beneath the water’s surface. By resurrecting the hemoglobin of ancient crocodilian ancestors, a…
Scientists in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution challenge three commonly held beliefs regarding the abilities of common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs), which are underground fungi…
Genetic mutations are changes or variations in an organism’s DNA sequence, which can have a range of effects on its traits and characteristics. Some mutations…
American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus). This species of crocodile is native to the Americas, ranging from the southeastern United States to northern South America. It is…
A new study analyzes how the last 12,000 years of behavior, adaptation, population, and evolution shaped who we are today. The researchers analyzed the trends…
Cryo-electron tomography provided insight into the cellular structure of a newly cultured Asgard archaeon illustrated here. Remarkable are the extensive actin cytoskeleton filaments (orange) in…
A death adder snake (Acanthophis antarcticus). Credit: Luke Allen An international team of researchers, led by the University of Adelaide has provided the first anatomical…
The findings lend support to the theory that microRNAs play an essential role in the evolution of intelligent life. New research suggests that microRNAs play…