New Evidence Emerges on How Early Tetrapods Learned to Live—and Eat—on Land
Advanced imaging, modern species provide new insights into behavior of Tiktaalik roseae. New research out of the University of Chicago has found evidence that the…
Advanced imaging, modern species provide new insights into behavior of Tiktaalik roseae. New research out of the University of Chicago has found evidence that the…
Long considered a relic of deep evolutionary history, new fossils indicate that modern lamprey larvae are actually a relatively recent innovation. A new study out…
A worryingly high number of Asian bamboo longhorn beetles (Chlorophorus annularis) turn out to have been emerging across Europe for about a century already, finds…
Researchers overturn the long-standing hypothesis that mammal ancestors moved like modern lizards and discover there is much more to the evolution of the mammal backbone….
Modern hospitals and antibiotic treatment alone did not create all the antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria we see today. Instead, selection pressures from before the widespread…
Research demonstrates the potential for rapid, accurate glycan sequencing. Researchers have demonstrated the potential of using a nanopore to reduce the time required for sequencing…
You’ve probably heard of animals, such as the axolotl, that can lose and then regenerate a tail or limb. But researchers reporting in the journal…
Forager ants do it, vampire bats do it, guppies do it, and mandrills do it. Long before humans learned about and started “social distancing due…
Oocyte growth relies on physical phenomena that drive smaller cells to dump their contents into a larger cell. Egg cells are by far the largest…
The oceans are becoming more acidic because of the rapid release of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by anthropogenic (human) activities, such as burning of fossil…
Many animals feign death to try to escape their predators, with some individuals in prey species remaining motionless, if in danger, for extended lengths of…
From biofuels and other commodity chemicals to methane production, genomic study peers into the mysteries of a goat’s gut. Michelle O’Malley has long been inspired…
SFU-led research team uncovers how fossil dragonfly relatives have been misclassified due to their striking similarity. For more than 150 years, scientists have been incorrectly…
A new large-scale study uncovers recent genetic connectivity between chimpanzee subspecies despite past isolation events. Researchers from the Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee (PanAf)…
Most of Northern California’s kelp forest ecosystem is gone, replaced by widespread ‘urchin barrens’ that may persist long into the future, according to a new…
Study finds that in nematodes, SKN-1B controls behaviors like foraging, eating, and resting. In nematode worms, a key controller allows the worm to sense when…
Plants have a metabolic signal that adjusts their circadian clock in the evening to ensure they store enough energy to survive the night, a new…
Energy-providing bacterial endosymbiont enables its unicellular eukaryotic host to breathe nitrate, demonstrating that unicellular eukaryotes may acquire endosymbionts to complement or replace functions of their…