Rife with obstacles and occlusions, terrestrial environments potentially helped give rise to planning circuits in the brain. New simulations show that living among land’s rich…
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A reconstruction of the ancient landscape of South Korea with crocodile track-makers. Credit: Dr Anthony Romilio University of Colorado Denver researcher Marin Lockley was a…
Mysterious Australian Night Parrots in natural environment. Credit: Steve Murphy, Charles Darwin University Australia’s most elusive bird, the Night Parrot, may not be much better…
Scientists have long debated which genetic information carrier — DNA or RNA — started life on Earth, but a new study suggests life could have…
A global campaign to help find a mate for a left-coiling snail called ‘Jeremy’ has enabled scientists to understand how mirror-image garden snails are formed.…
The attached image shows Wightia declivirostris flying over an oxbow lake in the valley of the ancient Wessex River that flowed from Devon to the…
An olive sea snake (Aipysurus laevis) foraging in Western Australia. Credit: Bruno Simoes, University of Plymouth Sea snakes first entered the marine environment 15 million…
Chimpanzee lip-smacks exhibit a speech-like rhythm, a group of researchers led by the University of Warwick have found. They found chimpanzees produce lip-smacks at a…
Brazilian cow nose ray, never known north of the Gulf of Mexico, found in the Atlantic off New Jersey by DNA scientists. Credit: Jacques Burkhardt…
Life reconstruction of Priosphenodon avelasi. Credit: Nobu Tamura, CC BY-SA 4.0 Priosphenodon specimens found in Argentina show the Late Cretaceous reptile evolved to have resilient…
Maximizing the protection of life on Earth requires knowledge of the global patterns of biodiversity at multiple dimensions, from genetic diversity within species, to species…
This is the study species Neolamprologus multifasciatus, a shell-dwelling cichlid from Lake Tanganyika, Africa. Credit: The Jordan Lab, Jakob Gübel What is important when you…
(Click image for full view.) This is an artist impression of Titanichthys. Credit: Mark Witton (used with permission) Scientists from the University of Bristol and…
Willow tit (Poecile montanus) in flight in Kittilä, Finland. Poecile montanus: Dispersal ability has a prominent latitudinal gradient; species that live in temperate regions, like…
Skull of Qihe 2, a ~8,400-year-old individual from Qihe Cave, Fujian, China. Credit: FAN Xuechun New ancient genomic research reveals information about human history in…
Plants can produce energy-rich biomass with the help of light, water and carbon dioxide. This is why they are at the beginning of the food…
An illustration of Calcaivis, an early relative of ostriches and cassowaries that lived 52 million years ago, showing its iridescent feathers. Credit: Velizar Simeonovski Cassowaries…
Stone artifacts from the Initial Upper Paleolithic at Bacho Kiro Cave: 1-3, 5-7 Pointed blades and fragments from Layer I; 4 Sandstone bead with morphology…
Scientists worldwide have long debated our ability to identify male and female dinosaurs. Now, research led by Queen Mary University of London has shown that…
Published in PLOS ONE today, a study by an international team from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas and Hokkaido University in…