Testing the Patience of Predators and Prey – Snakes and Frogs Appear to Anticipate Each Other
“Like a frog stared down by a snake,” goes an old Japanese expression, describing an animal petrified with fear. However, it now seems that this…
“Like a frog stared down by a snake,” goes an old Japanese expression, describing an animal petrified with fear. However, it now seems that this…
Scientists worldwide have long debated our ability to identify male and female dinosaurs. Now, research led by Queen Mary University of London has shown that…
A new study by an international team from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas and Hokkaido University and Okayama University of Science…
In a world where movements of non-native animal species are drastically disrupting whole ecosystems and causing economic harm and environmental change, it is becoming increasingly…
Researchers discover a gene in honey bees that causes virgin birth. In a study published on May 7, 2020, in Current Biology, researchers from University…
Hunger is likely to be the main driver of stone juggling in otters, new research has shown. Researchers from the University of Exeter have carried…
Turns out, you really can’t believe everything you see in the movies. A new University of Wisconsin Oshkosh analysis of raptor teeth published in the…
Researchers have discovered an ancient plant species whose reproductive biology captures the evolution from one to two spore sizes – an essential transition to the…
Adalatherium identified as part of enigmatic Southern Hemisphere mammalian group that lived at the time of dinosaurs. Several years ago, Guillermo Rougier, Ph.D., professor in…
International team of researchers, led by David Krause, senior paleontologist at Denver Museum of Nature & Science and longtime Stony Brook U. professor, discover 66-million-year-old…
Paleontologist and National Geographic Explorer finds unique swimming adaptations in a dinosaur. Scientists have long opposed the idea that dinosaurs lived in aquatic habitats. Now,…
University of Tübingen researchers uncover dental traits revealing genetic relationships in humans, serving as proxy for DNA. Researchers at the University of Tübingen have shown…
Dads emerged to reap the benefits of partnerships with females and other males, team of anthropologists and economists argue. Humans differ from other primates in…
A new way of looking at marine evolution over the past 540 million years has shown that levels of biodiversity in our oceans have remained…
Biologists have long hoped to understand the nature of the earliest living organisms on Earth. If they could, they might then be able to say…
The Kem Kem beds in Morocco are famous for the spectacular fossils found there, including at least four large-bodied non-avian theropods, several large-bodied pterosaurs, and…
An international team of researchers has put together a new image of Neanderthals based on the genes Neanderthals left in the DNA of modern humans…
International team of researchers traces the history of brain evolution from tyrannosaurs to modern crows. An international team of evolutionary biologists and paleontologists have reconstructed…