Dr. Owen Gilbert, researcher at the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) and author of the recent paper suggesting…
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Platypus young in Victoria, Australia. Often considered the world’s oddest mammal, Australia’s beaver-like, duck-billed platypus exhibits an array of bizarre characteristics: it lays eggs instead…
Northeastern Asia has a complex history of migrations and plague outbursts. That is the essence of an international archaeogenetic study published in Science Advances and…
Humans feeding leftover lean meat to wolves during harsh winters may have had a role in the early domestication of dogs, towards the end of…
New research by scientists at the University of Bristol explains how a “stop-start” pattern of evolution, governed by environmental change, could explain why crocodiles have…
University of Copenhagen researchers have discovered how mosses became one of our planet’s most widely distributed plants — global wind systems transport them along Earth’s…
The banyan tree Ficus macrocarpa produces aerial roots that give it its distinctive look. A new study reveals the genomic changes that allow the tree…
A bumblebee on a flower. Credit: Natalie Hempel de Ibarra Big bumblebees take time to learn the locations of the best flowers, new research shows.…
New study shows that proteins become biochemically addicted to complex interactions without adaptation. A new study at the University of Chicago has shown that elaborate…
Jeff Weinell, a University of Kansas graduate research assistant at the Biodiversity Institute, is lead author of a paper describing Waray Dwarf Burrowing Snake as…
Micrograph showing Rothia cells (light blue) in their native habitat, a bacterial biofilm scraped from the human tongue. Credit: Jessica Mark Welch, Marine Biological Laboratory…
This photo shows a closeup of the wolf pup’s head, showing her teeth. Credit: Government of Yukon While water blasting at a wall of frozen…
Most insects can fly. Yet scores of species have lost that extraordinary ability, particularly on islands. On the small islands that lie halfway between Antarctica and…
Adalatherium fossils. Credit: Simone Hoffmann and Kathrine Pan The bizarre features of this mammal have scientists perplexed as to how it could have evolved; “it…
An artist’s impression of the new sea dragon, Thalassodraco etches, in the Late Jurassic seas. Credit: Megan Jacobs An amateur fossil hunter has unearthed a…
A photo of the newly discovered species (Cryptops speleorex), the largest inhabitant of the Movile cave (Romania) known to date. Credit: Mihai Baciu, GESS LAB,…
By four months of age the cognitive performance of ravens in experimental tasks testing their understanding of the physical world and how they interact with…
A chestnut-crowned babbler. Credit: Niall Stopford Animals can fall into an “ecological trap” by altering their behavior in the “wrong direction” in response to climate…
Gorgonopsian were the first saber-toothed animals. Their canines extended up to 13 centimeters. Credit: CCA 3.0/Dmitry Dogdanov When most people think of ferocious, blade-like teeth…
Three roughly 2,000-year-old corn cobs from the El Gigante rock shelter site in Honduras. These corn cobs were genetically analyzed by an international team of…