Habelia Optata – A 508-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature
Paleontologists at the University of Toronto (U of T) and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto have entirely revisited a tiny yet exceptionally fierce…
Paleontologists at the University of Toronto (U of T) and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto have entirely revisited a tiny yet exceptionally fierce…
In the first study to predict whether different populations of the same plant species can adapt to climate change, scientists from the Max Planck Institute…
A new study from UCLA shows that Colorado River delta fish risk extinction due to a lack of freshwater. The study is a warning for…
Near Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., a population of mosquitoes capable of transmitting tropical diseases is hunkering down for a sixth straight winter. A new…
The Galapagos Islands are home to multiple species of giant tortoises. Two distinct shell forms can be observed among the different species: “domed” and “saddleback”….
New research shows that human waste accounts for a high percentage of nutrients consumed by some animals and plants in suburban ponds. Researchers at Yale…
Many studies have suggested that the genetics of skin pigmentation are simple. A small number of known genes, it is thought, account for nearly 50…
What looked like a population of a common butterfly species turned out to be a whole new organism, and, moreover – one with a very…
A newly published study reveals that a massive, wolf-sized otter that lived about 6 million years ago may have been a dominant predator in its…
A new study from the University of Washington shows that with a changing climate, Mount Rainier floral communities could ‘reassemble’ with new species relationships and…
“A way to someone’s heart is through their stomach.” New research shows that this popular saying isn’t only true for humans. In the vinegar fly…
New research shows that babies as old as only a few months are able to identify objects as ‘spiders’ or ‘snakes’ and respond to them….
New research from Yale University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences reveals that the largely barren islands reaching north from Antarctica are actually…
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology have discovered deep-sea animals living in symbiosis with bacteria that use oil as an energy source…
New research shows that with more time, viruses have the luxury to infect the old host while exploring adaptive tweaks to infect a new host….
New research from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry reveals that Boreal coniferous forests could see increased occurrences of fire as a result of global…
New research from Yale University reveals that estrogen in suburban yards is changing the ratio of male and female green frogs at nearby ponds. Green…
A new study from Brown University shows how dogs evolved in response to changes in climate over the last 40 million years, demonstrating that predators…