Tag: evolution

A new study measuring the forces that shape bacterial genomes determined that a difference in efficiency of hundredth of a ...

The latest, most complete tree is the result of a three-year effort by researchers from over a dozen institutions from ...

New research shows that the first vertebrates had a surprisingly easy time adapting from fins to legs.

A new study examined the way gene families evolve from ancestral genes, finding the original genes were promiscuous in that ...

Where are all the aliens? Why haven’t we seen or heard their signals from space? Could we really have been ...

Once with the advent of agriculture, and its spread to Europe from the Near East, human society was transformed forever. ...

As more Millennials are leaving religion in droves, or choosing not to identify with any faith, acceptance of evolution among ...

Self-preservation and reproduction are the most powerful instincts, and life forms on Earth have devised all sorts of gimmicks and ...

The concepts of biodiversity and evolution are generally thought of as something that occurs in thousands, maybe millions of years ...

We humans arguably came to dominate the world thanks to our dexterous hands, which allow gripping tools and manipulating objects. ...

A new paper published Thursday in Science looks at how climate change is (out of all things) making the tongue ...

Some researchers have made an interesting connection: if you measure the complexity of life or how big the genome is ...

Love is complicated enough, even without intense scrutiny from scientists. Do we fall in love with someone because we find ...

A robotics team lead by Cambridge University engineer Fumiya Iida have designed a robot that archeologists of the future (they ...

Duke University researchers made micro CT scans of the skull of ancient monkey and found its brain, though tiny by ...

Despite a huge gap in public acceptance, the theory of evolution and natural selection is not a controversial theory. It ...

Joining sounds together to create a meaningful language was thought to be a human characteristic, but a new study published ...

Today, ray-finned fish make up 99% of all fish species, but it wasn't always like this. In an attempt to ...

Studying the fossil remains of an ancient reptile-like creature, paleontologists gained valuable clues and insights that help explain how turtles ...

When the freakish Hallucigenia was first discovered in the 1970s, paleontologists found it nearly impossible to distinguish heads from tail. ...

A new analysis conducted by Yale researchers revealed that the first snakes may have actually evolved on land, not in ...

Most evolutionary biologists seem to agree, based on fossil record, that the birds of today are direct descendants of dinosaurs, ...

A seven year old has discovered the fossil of a turkey-sized dinosaur that roamed South America over 140 million years ...

European males are on average 11 centimeters taller now than they were in the 1870s, which is quite a lot ...

While he was only 22 years of age, Charles Darwin sailed on the ship H.M.S. Beagle to the Galapagos Island ...

Marine animals today are 150 times larger than they were 540 million years ago, according to a new study which ...

There's no secret that evolution directly contradicts religious views on creationism. What's surprising, however, is that many people who are ...

A far from definite, yet highly interesting explanation for the origin of language was recently proposed - not by linguists or ...

Scientists have made a significant step towards developing fully artificial life - for the first time, they demonstrated evolution in a ...

Have you ever wondered why you crave for a drink from time to time or why you can drink alcohol ...

An international team of more than 100 scientists has undertaken a most complex and challenging task: they've determined the timings and ...

An exceptional Biologists duo who have studying an ecosystem from the Galapagos Islands for the past 40 years have made ...

The Oilbird (Steatornis caripensis), also called the guácharo, is more like a bat than a bird in some ways: It ...

Cambrian fossil is earliest example of large swimming filter-feeder. An evolutionary explosion Half a billion years ago, the world was ...

Researchers have found that a very small portion of your brain plays a key role in decision making. A University ...

A strange evolutionary alliance between trees and the ants that guard them has a sinister explanation, a new study suggests, ...

It's amazing how two different animals from two completely different environments evolve some identical physical features. Take bats and dolphins ...

Before mobile phones, pagers and computers were born, writing letters were one of the most basic forms of communication. Communication ...

Living fossils, fast adapters Sturgeons have been conserved as fossils ever since the early Cretaceous - some 130 million years ...

A normal human male and female from present day. (c) Nickolay Lamm Our general appearance and dominating facial features have ...

Psychologists closely studying chimpanzee, bonobo and human infants found striking similarities among the three species in terms of different types ...

At 55 million years old, it represents the earliest known member of this broad group of animals that includes humans. ...

A living South African sideneck turtle next to its 260-million-year-old relative, Eunotosaurus africanus. Turtles are maybe the most majestic creatures ...

This little fellow on the left might look like he's about to take off for a flight, but he knows ...

Recently, a big drop in swallow road-kill numbers was observed, without humans changing anything on their part. So biologists set ...

A rather well rooted idea in evolutionary biology says that evolution itself is non-reversible. Simply put, once an organism has ...

Humans were granted with an evolutionary edge that differentiated us from other primates and may have helped us become the ...

There are millions of species on Earth, and naturally understanding the mechanics of evolution is of great importance for understanding ...

If you're in a biology class in Europe, and you say that humans appeared on the Earth a few thousand ...

Though Siberia stretches across about 10% of the world's land surface, it's only occupied by 0.5% of the world's population, ...