Earth’s First Diverse Marine Predators Produced Killer Babies
Some of the earliest predators that patrolled the oceans over 500 million years ago are also some of the largest animals to have lived at…
Some of the earliest predators that patrolled the oceans over 500 million years ago are also some of the largest animals to have lived at…
During embryonic development genetic cascades control gene activity and cell differentiation. In a new publication of the journal PNAS, the team of Ulrich Technau of…
Scientists have created a new type of genetic replication system which demonstrates how the first life on Earth – in the form of RNA –…
Our cerebral cortex, a sheet of neurons, connections and circuits, comprises “ancient” regions such as the hippocampus and “new” areas such as the six-layered “neocortex”,…
Most marine fish, including tuna, belong to a group called acanthomorphs, which experienced an explosion of diversity after an asteroid crash 66 million years ago….
In dark alleys of the Pacific and Indian oceans, new research shows some of the deadliest, armored fishes on the planet are packing switchblades in…
New research from the University of York suggests that highly mobile eyebrows, which can be used to express a wide range of subtle emotions, may…
Large concentrations of sulfites and bisulfites in shallow lakes may have set the stage for Earth’s first biological molecules. Around 4 billion years ago, Earth…
For the first time, scientists of the German Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, Goethe University, and the University of Lund in Sweden have deciphered…
The expressions “Wash your hands” and “Home, sweet home” have more in common than you’d think. A whole universe more. The value of using soap…
Researchers have found an ancient monitor lizard with a fourth eye — a discovery that may signal a new wrinkle in the way eyesight evolved…
By studying bacteria and yeast, researchers at MIT have discovered that vastly different types of cells still share fundamental similarities, conserved across species and refined…
A new study by researchers at Yale and George Washington University examines the human threats to the amphibian family tree and calls for a rethinking…
Using state-of-the-art dating techniques researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have obtained new chronological data for the timing of…
An international collaboration, including the Natural History Museum of Utah at the University of Utah, has discovered that early humans in eastern Africa had—by about…
As dinosaurs and huge ocean predators disappeared 66 million years ago in a mass extinction event, lineages that comprise the bulk of marine fish species…
Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have helped put together the most comprehensive study ever conducted into the origins of people in Vanuatu –…
Homo naledi’s relatively taller and more wear-resistant molars enabled it to have a much more abrasive diet than other South African hominins. This is the…