Study Traces Evolution of Acoustic Communication Back to 350 Million Years Ago
A study tracing acoustic communication across the tree of life of land-living vertebrates reveals that the ability to vocalize goes back hundreds of millions of…
A study tracing acoustic communication across the tree of life of land-living vertebrates reveals that the ability to vocalize goes back hundreds of millions of…
Sanitary care by social ants shapes disease outcome — study published in Ecology Letters. Who wins in a competition is largely dependent on the opponent…
Meerkat clans perform a ‘war dance’ to frighten opponents and protect their territory, according to a new UCL and University of Cambridge study. Published in…
Vision is a crucial sense for most animals, and vertebrates have evolved a highly adaptable set of opsin genes that generate light-sensitive pigments to decode…
That size, shape, and structure of organisms can evolve at different speeds is well known, ranging from fast-evolving adaptive radiations to living fossils such as…
Basic cooperation skills appear to be shared by dogs and wolves, suggesting that this ability was present in a common ancestor and was not lost…
Scientists have shown for the first time that brittle stars use vision to guide them through vibrant coral reefs, thanks to a neat color-changing trick….
Researchers Hone In on What Makes Screams Distinctive Screams are prompted by a variety of emotions — from joyful surprise to abject terror. No matter…
The bright colors of the chicks of American coots help their parents choose favorites, according to a new study. The American coot is a somewhat…
New study shows exactly how the manner in which mitochondria divide has remained the same since evolution began. Cellular origin is well explained by the…
New 96-million-year old turtles from Texas connect North America with Asia and the Southern Hemisphere, suggesting vast intercontinental migrations during this time. The Arlington Archosaur…
A newly discovered species of ancient wasp-mimicking flies was named Buccinatormyia gangnami, after a famous hit by a South Korean singer PSY. It was described…
An international research team in which Spanish experts participate has shown that sparse species are associated spatially in 90% of the animal and plant communities…
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in extracting a complete human genome from a thousands-of-years-old “chewing gum”. According to the researchers, it is…
The lack of signals of population decline found on its genome points to a human-mediated, abrupt extinction. Researchers from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE,…
Scientists find that unappetizing moths make less effort to escape attacking bats. You might think that prey would invariably flee in terror from a predator….
Duke student Peishu Li ’19 remembers the first time he saw a baby panda being born, in a video for a class taught by biology…
Dinosaur footprints found in several European countries, very similar to others in Morocco, suggest that they could have been dispersed between the two continents by…