Creating a Phantom River: Experimental Broadcast of Whitewater River Noise Drives Bats and Birds Away
While many might consider a walk in the woods to be a quiet, peaceful escape from their noisy urban life, we often don’t consider just…
While many might consider a walk in the woods to be a quiet, peaceful escape from their noisy urban life, we often don’t consider just…
When Charles Darwin published Descent of Man 150 years ago, he launched scientific investigations on human origins and evolution. Last week, three leading scientists in…
A research team working at Uppsala University has succeeded in studying ‘translation factors’ – important components of a cell’s protein synthesis machinery – that are…
A look at enzyme evolution suggests life figured out how to use oxygen long before the main event. Around 2.5 billion years ago, our planet…
A new study led by researchers from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford, and the University of Birmingham for Current Biology…
The discovery of a new species of ancient turtle is shedding light on hard-to-track reptile migrations about 100 million years ago. Pleurochayah appalachius, a bothremydid…
Open up Scott Roy’s Twitter bio and you’ll see a simple but revealing sentence: “The more I learn the more I’m confused.” Now the rest…
New findings show connections between the ancient horse populations in North America, where horses evolved, and Eurasia, where they were domesticated. A new study of…
Scientists examined DNA from mass grave of plague victims in Germany. While examining DNA from bones of 16th-century bubonic plague victims in the German town…
Study shows erosion of ant genome tied to loss of functional, behavioral and social traits in 3 inquiline species. Ants are renowned in the insect…
Our planet’s worst mass extinction event happened 252 million years ago when massive volcanic eruptions caused catastrophic climate change. The vast majority of animal species…
With a frilled head and beaked face, Menefeeceratops sealeyi lived 82 million years ago, predating its relative, Triceratops. Researchers including Peter Dodson, of the School…
Researchers at the University of Bristol found that plant eaters diversified quickly after mass extinctions to eat different kinds of plants, and the ones that…
A team of evolutionary biologists from the University of Toronto has shown that Anolis lizards, or anoles, are able to breathe underwater with the aid…
Scientists have identified the fossil of a giant mosasaur in Morocco that grew up to eight meters long. A giant mosasaur from the end of…
A receptor that helps conserve energy when food is scarce may be the key to a safer approach to treating diet-induced obesity, research led by…
A new pelomedusoid turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar provides evidence for convergent evolution of suction feeding among pleurodires. We here describe a new…
Researchers at the University of East Anglia have made an astonishing discovery about how our brains control our hands. They used MRI data to study…