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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…
Artistic reconstruction of the yunnanozoan from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota shows basket-like pharyngeal skeletons. Credit: Dinghua Yang Research reveals yunnanozoans as the oldest known stem…
Four different Australopithecus crania that were found in the Sterkfontein caves, South Africa. The Sterkfontein cave fill containing this and other Australopithecus fossils was dated…
A newly completed 15-year study details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth. An innovative new perspective on mineralogy, findings rank amongst…
An artist reconstruction of Ailurarctos from Shuitangba. The grasping function of its false thumb (shown in the right individual) has reached to the level of…
Scientists believe it likely that the two genes, PEN1 and SYP122, paved the way for all terrestrial plant life. Researchers shed new light on how…
“Origin of Life” artist’s concept. The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has…
Image showing Demodex folliculorum mite on skin under Hirox microscope. Credit: University of Reading The secret lives of mites in the skin of our faces.…
The 3D braincase of Shuyu. Credit: IVPP The human middle ear—which houses three tiny, vibrating bones—is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear,…
A comprehensive family tree for primates has been created that covers more than 900 species. Fossil-based compilation reveals new information on the evolution and spread…
New research reveals the physical basis for why approved antibody therapeutics are not working in neutralizing the recent COVID-19 variants of concern, such as Omicron…
Intermale-competitions of giraffoid, foreground: Discokeryx xiezhi, background: Giraffa camelopardalis. Credit: WANG Yu and GUO Xiaocong Giraffes are quite distinctive due to their extremely long necks.…
Elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than they are to shrews, according to molecular evolutionary trees. Scientists say convergent evolution is much more…
The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 300,000 people die every year due to pregnancy-related causes. A study finds that complex human childbirth and cognitive…
Researchers studying the European olm, and other cave dwellers, believe these strange creatures can provide important answers about evolution and even human eye diseases. Credit:…
Potamites montanicola, classified as ‘Critically Endangered’ by automated the assessment method and as ‘Data Deficient’ by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Credit: Germán…