The Australian bearded dragon Pogona vitticeps. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Brain Research / G. Laurent Dragons and Brain Evolution These days, dragons are keeping…
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Hemidactylium scutatum larvae, lungless salamander native to eastern North America. Credit: Zachary R. Lewismorpho Despite lung loss in adults for millions of years, lungless salamanders…
The Gogo fish fossil where the 380-million-year-old, 3D preserved heart was discovered by researchers. Pictured at the WA Museum. Credit: Yasmine Phillips, Curtin University Paleontologists…
The study reveals that chromosome-level engineering can be achieved in mammals. Researchers engineer the first sustainable chromosomal alterations in mice. In nature, evolutionary chromosomal changes may…
Early tetrapod. The skulls of tetrapods had fewer bones than extinct and living fish, limiting their evolution for millions of years, according to the latest…
Representation of the modes of locomotion practiced by Sahelanthropus. Bipedalism was common among the earliest known representatives of humankind, probably on the ground but also…
Artistic reconstruction of the reptile adaptive radiation in a terrestrial ecosystem during the warmest period in Earth’s history. The image depicts a massive, big-headed, carnivorous…
Evolution has long been thought to be random, however, a recent study suggests differently. Evolution might be less random than we thought. Evolution has long…
Evolutionary psychology may explain why magical thinking is so central to love. In our current age of science, many people see supernatural forces as illusions…
Analysis of the genome and proteome shows that eukaryotic evolution gave rise to the regulatory function of chromatin. Two meters of DNADNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid,…
Scientists Discover a 4-Billion-Year-Old Ancient Piece of Earth’s Crust Underneath Western Australia
The earth is composed of three main layers: the crust, the mantle, and the core. Lasers pave the path for finding ancient crust. Curtin University…
Artistic reconstruction of the reptile adaptive radiation in a terrestrial ecosystem during the warmest period in Earth’s history. Image depicts a massive, big-headed, carnivorous erythrosuchid…
Recent research analyzes mathematical models created to deduce conclusions about how evolution works at the level of populations of organisms. A study examines the benefits and…
Researchers have uncovered a source of oxygen that may have influenced the evolution of life before the advent of photosynthesis. Scientists at Newcastle University have…
Intermale-competitions of giraffoid, foreground: Discokeryx xiezhi, background: Giraffa camelopardalis. Credit: Wang Yu and Guo Xiaocong Fossils demonstrate that head-bashing combat contributed to the development of the…
The researchers confirmed that the genetic control region they discovered only controls the expression of a sodium channel gene in muscle and no other tissues.…
Artist’s rendering of the process by which microbes captured sunlight for energy with rhodopsin proteins. Credit: Sohail Wasif/UCR Light-capturing proteins illuminate Earth of billions of…
The SK 48 cranium of an ancient hominin, Paranthropus robustus, was one of the fossils included in the analysis of some new claims on human…
The only almost completely intact Genyornis eggshell ever discovered. It was located by N. Spooner and collected by Gifford H. Miller, South Australia. The presence…
Stanleycaris hirpex. Credit: Sabrina Cappelli © Royal Ontario Museum An ancient radiodont predator with three eyes reveals key information about the evolution of the arthropod…