Learning on the Fly: Model Demonstrates Similarities in How Humans and Insects Learn
Computational model demonstrates similarity in how humans and insects learn about their surroundings. Even the humble fruit fly craves a dose of the happy hormone,…
Computational model demonstrates similarity in how humans and insects learn about their surroundings. Even the humble fruit fly craves a dose of the happy hormone,…
The tiny desert-living dinosaur Shuvuuia had extraordinary vision and owl-like hearing for nocturnal life in the Mongolian desert. Today’s 10,000 species of birds live in…
Paleontologists working in museum collections in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany have identified five additional specimens of a 240-million-year-old ichthyosaur, named Besanosaurus leptorhynchus, which was previously…
An individual human can maintain stable social relationships with about 150 people. This is the proposition known as ‘Dunbar’s number’ – that the architecture of…
New study traces back the progenitor genomes causing COVID-19 and geospatial spread. In the field of molecular epidemiology, the worldwide scientific community has been steadily…
Newly Discovered Miocene Biome Sheds Light on Rainforest Evolution An international research group led by Prof. WANG Bo and Prof. SHI Gongle from the Nanjing…
An international team of paleontologists has identified a new genus and species of hadrosaur or duck-billed dinosaur, Yamatosaurus izanagii, on one of Japan’s southern islands….
This study marks the first time researchers have sequenced the genomes of plants from ancient germinated seeds. Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi’s Center for Genomics…
We usually assume that inbreeding is bad and should be avoided under all circumstances. But new research performed by researchers at Stockholm University, published in Nature…
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in extracting and analyzing Neandertal chromosomal DNA preserved in cave sediments. The field of ancient DNA has revealed…
A billion-year-old fossil, which provides a new link in the evolution of animals, has been discovered in the Scottish Highlands. Scientists have discovered the fossil…
Study confirms evolutionary link between social structure and selfishness. One of nature’s most prolific cannibals could be hiding in your pantry, and biologists have used…
An ancient immune response regulates the development of beneficial symbioses. Microalgae of the dinoflagellate group are known for their ability to survive in other animal…
Largest study of its kind reveals the way relative brain size of mammals changed over the last 150 million years. Scientists from Stony Brook University…
Shorter headed dogs, visually cooperative breeds, younger and playful dogs form eye contact faster. According to new research by Hungarian ethologists, at least four independent…
Researchers have solved the missing piece of a 350-year-old puzzle of how the pointed body parts of many animals grow to form their shape —…
Modern human-like brains evolved comparatively late in the genus Homo and long after the earliest humans first dispersed from Africa, according to a new study….
New ancient DNA-based study on Madagascar crocodile suggests that modern crocodiles likely originated in Africa. A study led by scientists at the American Museum of…