Adult female and juvenile Popa langur (Trachypithecus popa) in the crater of Mount Popa, Myanmar. Credit: Thaung Win A new primate species dubbed the Popa…
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Illustration depicting the early bird Falcatakely amidst nonavian dinosaurs and other creatures during the Late Cretaceous in Madagascar. Credit: Mark Witton Rare cretaceous-age fossil opens…
Leipzig is host to the oldest botanical garden in Germany. On an area of only three hectares, around 6500 of the 350,000 plant species worldwide…
Live reconstruction of the early sauropod Bagualia alba. Credit: Jorge Gonzales Global warming triggered the evolution of giant dinosaurs. An international team of paleontologists, including…
By cutting into fossils and examining growth rings, scientists learned how predatory dinosaurs got so big. Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the biggest meat-eating dinosaurs…
A young Tasmanian devil. Tasmanian devils are endangered by devil facial tumor 1 (DFT1), a transmissible cancer. Credit: Maximilian Stammnitz Genomic analysis may help efforts…
False-color 3D representation of a 0.21 mm x 0.28 mm wing section of the moth Lasiocampa quercus showing structure, diversity and arrangement of base scales…
Professor Robert Henry collects wild rice samples in northern Australia. Credit: (c) The University of Queensland Researchers investigating the heritage of thousands of rice varieties…
Fritillaria delavayi in a population with low harvest pressure. Credit: Yang Niu A plant used in traditional Chinese medicine has evolved to become less visible…
Titanosaurs were common at the time of the asteroid hit at the end of the Cretaceous 66 million years ago. A new statistical analysis of…
White sand ecosystem patch at the Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (RDS) do Uatumã, Central Amazonia. Credit: João Capurucho Birds travel across habitats patches to breed,…
A large international consortium led by scientists at Uppsala University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has sequenced the genome of 130 mammals…
New epidemic diseases have an evolutionary advantage if they are of “intermediate” severity, research shows. Scientists tested the theory that pathogens (disease-causing organisms) that inflict…
A large international consortium led by scientists at Uppsala University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has sequenced the genome of 130 mammals…
The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved fossil from the extinct human species Paranthropus robustus suggests rapid evolution during a turbulent period of local climate change,…
The series of illustrations on this page are a schematic illustrating three ways that standard samples from COVID-19 clinical trials can be repurposed to assess…
South Georgia Gentoo penguins (P. poncetii) live in more northerly habitats where conditions are milder, than their Southern Gentoo cousins which live on the Antarctic…
Specimens of the clover-like Medicago truncatula plant were each given an initial mixture of two strains of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria Ensifer meliloti to learn what…
Duckbill dinosaurs evolved in north America, spreading to South America, Asia, Europe, and finally Africa. Credit: Raul Martin The first fossils of a duckbilled dinosaur…
Argonne computational resources supported the largest comprehensive analysis of COVID-19 genome sequences in the U.S. and helped corroborate growing evidence of a protein mutation. Before…