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Reconstruction of Massospondylus carinatus. Credit: Dorling Kindersley Anyone who’s raised a child or a pet will know just how fast and how steady their growth…
In a paper published in Science, biologists at Baylor College of Medicine, the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Rice University studying the tree of life unveil…
Pied tamarin (Saguinus bicolor). Credit: Photograph by Tainara Sobroza New study finds one species will adopt another species’ calls in shared territory. New research has…
Just in time for picnic-table trivia, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences rewrites the origins of domesticated watermelons.…
Researchers created an algorithm to identify similar cell types from species – including fish, mice, flatworms and sponges – that have diverged for hundreds of…
A large, parasitic orchid bee (Exaerte smaragdina). Credit: USGSBIML Team Largest-ever analysis of bees’ morphological diversity paints complicated picture as to whether complex social behavior…
Amphiprion percula, a species of clownfish photographed in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. Credit: Tane Sinclair-Taylor The distinctive white stripes in clownfish form at different…
Anolis lizard rebreathes exhaled air underwater using a bubble clinging to their snouts. Credit: Lindsey Swierk A team of evolutionary biologists including faculty at Binghamton…
Dr. Dylan Gomes led the team that deployed speaker arrays early in the spring to begin playback of whitewater river noise before most birds and…
When Charles Darwin published Descent of Man 150 years ago, he launched scientific investigations on human origins and evolution. Last week, three leading scientists in…
A research group working at Uppsala University has succeeded in studying ‘translation factors’ – important components of a cell’s protein synthesis machinery – that are…
Banded iron deposits like these contain clues to the Great Oxygenation Event. Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science A look at enzyme evolution suggests life figured…
Early lineages of mammals, like this large Gobiconodon from Mongolia, outcompeted the ancestors of modern mammals in the time of dinosaurs. Credit: Art by Corbin…
Life reconstruction of the new Cretaceous fossil turtle species Pleurochayah appalachius from the Arlington Archosaur Site in the Woodbine Group of Texas. Credit: Brent Adrian/Midwestern…
A Taiwan vole, closely related to the creeping vole described in the study. Credit: Lai Wagtail / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Open up Scott Roy’s…
An illustration showing Lystrosaurus during the end-Permian mass extinction. Credit: Gina Viglietti Our planet’s worst mass extinction event happened 252 million years ago when massive…
With a frilled head and beaked face, Menefeeceratops sealeyi, discovered in New Mexico, lived 82 million years ago. It predated its better-known relative, Triceratops. Credit:…
Close-up of an Anolis lizard with a rebreathing bubble on its snout. Credit: Lindsey Swierk A team of evolutionary biologists from the University of Toronto…
Pluridens would have reached up to eight meters long. Credit: Andrey Atuchin Scientists have identified the fossil of a giant mosasaur in Morocco that grew…