Marine Worm Thrives on Steady Diet of Deadly Poisons
If you thought living on fast-food, candy, soda and red meat was dangerous, try a diet of carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide. That’s what researchers…
Evolution News
Million-Year-Old Ash in South African Cave Yields Evidence of Cooking
Ash was discovered in a South African cave, and this indicates that humans were cooking with fire one million years ago. This is the earliest…
Stickleback Fish Used Pre-Existing Genes to Go from Saltwater to Freshwater Environments
New research pinpoints to certain mutations that may have helped the stickleback, a tiny armored fish, to evolve quickly between saltwater and freshwater forms. Since…
Relationships of Male Dolphins from Shark Bay Determined by Slow Swimming
In Shark Bay, Australia, the male dolphins are well known to marine biologists for their messy social entanglements. These relationships are so unique, that they’re…
Similarities Between Acorn Worm and Vertebrate Brain
A new study shows that Saccoglossus kowalevskii, a sea dwelling, bottom-feeding acorn worm, has a similarities to humans although the worms are separated from vertebrates…
Jawless Vertebrate Conodont Had Sharpest Yet Minuscule Teeth
The conodont, an extinct primitive marine vertebrate, had the sharpest teeth ever known, with tips just one-twentieth of the width of a human hair, and…
New NASA Videos of the Moon
Below are two new videos released from NASA showing the evolution of the moon and a narrated tour of the moon. A Narrated Tour of…
Coronacollina Acula, Oldest Organism With Skeleton Discovered
Paleontologists found the remains of what appears to be the oldest animal with a Skeleton. Scientists believe the organism, Coronacollina acula, lived on the seafloor…
Iceman Ötzi’s DNA Reveals Health Risks and Relations
Ötzi’s DNA has finally been sequenced. An international team published the almost complete DNA of the Iceman Ötzi from the Tyrolean Alps in the journal…
Human Y-Chromosome Has Enough Genes to Stay for Millions of Years
The male-sex determining Y chromosome is here to stay, having lost only one gene in the last 25 million years, a new study of human…
Researchers Discover that Prions Play Role in Yeast Survival and Evolution
While testing wild strains of yeast containing prions, researchers at MIT discovered that prions awaken dormant stretches of genes that can help the yeast survive…
Blind Golden Moles Have a Blue-Green Iridescent Sheen, a Rare Example in Mammals
Golden moles, mammals forming the family of Chrysochloridae, which taxonomically is distinct from true moles but to which they resemble due to species convergence, are…
The Bolshoi Simulation: Boxing the Universe
The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe. Larger simulations, including the BigBolshoi and…
Study Measures Mammalian Growth, Taking 24 Million Years to Go from Mouse to Elephant
Evolution has its quirks, and getting from a mouse-sized animal to a pachyderm didn’t take thousands of years, it took millions. Evolutionary biologists have published…
MSU Researchers Show How New Viruses Evolve Through Mutations
Researchers at Michigan State University are studying how viruses evolve and potentially become deadly mutations. For the first time ever, scientists were able show how…
Evolutionary Biologists Make Multicellular Life Evolve in the Lab
The evolutionary transition between single-celled organisms and multicellular life as we know it took several billion years to occur in nature, but under artificial pressure,…
Hybrid Sharks Ready to Take Over the Oceans: Fact and/or Fiction
As much as some media outlets would like the appearance of hybrid sharks to foster new, incredible shark attacks, the reality of the situation is…
First Hybrid Sharks Discovered Near Australia
As one of the oldest species on the planet, Sharks have had millions of years of evolution to perfect their predator form, and now sharks…