Evolution Now Accepted by Majority of Americans
The level of public acceptance of evolution in the United States is now solidly above the halfway mark, according to a new study based on…
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Early Warning: DNA Researchers Develop Critical Shortcut To Detect Known and Emerging Pathogens
Researchers at McMaster University have developed a sophisticated new tool that could help provide early warning of rare and unknown viruses in the environment and…
Exquisitely Preserved Fossils Show What the Ancestral Brains of Arthropods Looked Like 500 Million Years Ago
Rare fossils preserving the brains of creatures living more than half a billion years ago shed new light on the evolution of arthropods. Exquisitely preserved…
Using Evolutionary Principles To Prevent Antibiotic Resistance
Understanding resistance rates and cross-resistance can improve the potency of sequential antibiotic treatment protocols. Sequential treatment using antibiotics that are similar but swapped around frequently…
All Living Snakes Evolved From a Few Survivors of Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs
Research from the Milner Center for Evolution suggests modern snakes evolved from a handful of ancestors that survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. A…
What Is Causing All These New Coronavirus Variants? Is It the COVID–19 Vaccines?
Massive numbers of new COVID–19 infections are the main driver of new coronavirus variants. The rise of coronavirus variants has highlighted the huge influence evolutionary…
Surprising Diversity of Cretaceous Reptiles at Argentina Fossil Site – Revealed by Discovery of Ancient Teeth
Remains include the first armored dinosaurs and land-dwelling crocs from the region. Where skeletons are rare, isolated teeth can flesh out our understanding of ancient…
The Mystery of the Transforming Flexible Shell: Cryo-Tomography “Opened the Door To Reveal the Secret”
An international research team with participation of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has revealed a secret about a marine animal’s shell: The researchers have deciphered…
“Absolutely Mind-Boggling” Massive New Animal Species Discovered in 500 Million-Year-Old Burgess Shale
Royal Ontario Museum paleontologists unearth one of the largest radiodonts of the Cambrian explosion. Paleontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have uncovered the remains…
Species of Algae With Three Sexes Identified in Japanese River
Researchers on quest to understand how different sexes first evolved. For 30 years, University of Tokyo Associate Professor Hisayoshi Nozaki has traveled an hour west…
Animals “Shapeshifting” in Response to Warming Climate
Climate change is not only a human problem; animals have to adapt to it as well. Some “warm-blooded” animals are shapeshifting and getting larger beaks,…
Tyrannosaurus rex Appears To Have Had an East Coast Cousin
Tyrannosaurus rex, the fearsome predator that once roamed what is now western North America, appears to have had an East Coast cousin. A new study…
Three New Species of Hand-Standing Spotted Skunks Discovered
Redesignating an endangered subspecies as a separate species could help it get protected. Picture a skunk. You’re probably thinking of a stocky animal, around the…
Origin of Life: The First Cells Might Have Used Temperature To Divide
A simple mechanism could underlie the growth and self-replication of protocells—putative ancestors of modern living cells—suggests a study publishing today (September 3, 2021) in Biophysical…
Bowfin Genetics Reveals Old Dogfish Can Teach Researchers New Tricks
International team of researchers sequence genome of the enigmatic bowfin fish. The fish species Amia calva goes by many names including bowfin, freshwater dogfish, grinnel,…
Theory of Mind: Dogs Can Understand Human Intentions
Dogs Can Tell the Difference Between Intentional and Unintentional Human Actions Over our long shared history, dogs have developed a range of skills for bonding…
DNA From Modern Human Buried 7,000 Years Ago Shows Previously Unknown Ancient Human Relations
International research team isolates DNA from modern human buried 7,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The international study was accomplished through close…
400-Million-Year-Old Fossils Reveal How the First Roots Evolved
A plant fossil from a geological formation in Scotland sheds light on the development of the earliest known form of roots. A team led by…