View of the larval zebrafish face shows a type of endoderm cell in red and all other cell types in white. Fabian, Crump, and colleagues…
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A global study of ancient dog DNA, led by scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, University of Oxford, University of Vienna and archaeologists from more…
(Reepenia bituberculatav) Nomiine bee with night foraging activity. Credit: James Dorey, Flinders University A new study has identified two Australian bees that have adapted their…
K/Pg, or Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, refers to the aftermath of the asteroid hitting Earth 66 million years ago. Credit: Odysseus Archontikis/University of Oxford Tiny, seemingly…
Hypothesized approach of a sleeping white-necked jacobin, Florisuga mellivora, by the fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus. Credit: Illustration by Amy Koehler Poop is full of secrets.…
Bacillus biofilms resemble embryos. Credit: Dr. Momir Futo, Rudjer Boskovic Institute Discovery that bacterial biofilms behave like animal embryos sheds new light on the origin…
Three males groom together in a chain — Likizo (a younger male) grooms Big Brown (an older male), who grooms Lanjo (another younger male). Credit:…
This illustration shows a reconstruction of Ambopteryx in a glide. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto Despite having bat-like wings, two small dinosaurs, Yi and Ambopteryx, struggled to…
Chimpanzee Angie, who was studied at the National Center for Chimpanzee Care in Texas. Credit: University of Warwick Language is one of the most powerful…
The East Smithfield cemetery, located in London, built in 1348. Credit: Museum of London Archeology McMaster University researchers who analyzed thousands of documents covering a…
The basket-web spider in its natural form with its unique lobster pot web and silk, which has now been revealed as uniquely robust. Credit: Professor…
The origin of endothermy in synapsids, including the ancestors of mammals. The diagram shows the evolution of main groups through the Triassic, and the scale…
Illustration of “Homotherium Latidens.” Credit: University of Copenhagen Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have mapped the entire nuclear genome of a saber-toothed cat. The…
Packard Fellowship recipient Ed Chuong, assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, works in his lab with undergraduate student Isabella Horton. Credit: Glenn Asakawa/CU…
By studying the dog’s closest living relative, the grey wolf, we can have an insight — though indirectly — how the common ancestor’s social system…
Of the six or more different species of early humans, all belonging to the genus Homo, only we Homo sapiens have managed to survive. Now,…
Artist’s rendering of Gavialimimus almaghribensis, a newly discovered species of mosasaur that ruled the seas of what is now Morocco some 72 to 66 million…
Three Oksoko avarsan dinosaurs. Credit: Michael W. Skrepnick A newly discovered species of toothless, two-fingered dinosaur has shed light on how a group of parrot-like…
Researchers at the department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University trained the dogs so they are capable of scanning the brains of awake, unrestrained dogs.…