Vision first evolved 700 million years ago
The origins of vision is a widely debated subject, since genetic relationships between early animals capable of sight are inconsistent. ...
Tag: evolution
Hermit crabs socialize in order to back stab their neighbor and steal their ‘homes’
There are around 800 hermit crab species living in the ocean. These crustaceans like to mind their own business and ...
Evolution dictated by brawn instead of brain
For scientists, the most common method of assessing an animal's intelligence is by looking at its relative brain size, with ...
Snake missing link found: it crawled by T-Rex
Researchers have discovered what they believe to be a grandfather of snakes, which descended from terrestrial rather than marine ancestors. ...
Humanity is still subjected to the natural process of evolution, despite advances
Evolution, in very loose lines, is defined as the process which allows a species to survive by passing on the ...
Study finds 86% species on Earth and 91% species in the ocean still await description [shorties]
Diversity is one of the most shocking aspects when it comes to life on Earth, and knowing how many species ...
Exotic extreme microbes played a role in Earth’s early atmosphere
Some species of bacteria can survive virtually anywhere: in acids, in nuclear waste, at extremely low or high temperatures, at ...
Two groups of small fish are fastest evolving animals in the world, puzzling researchers
Over 50 species of pupfish are known from the US to Venezuela, and they are all pretty much the same ...
A third of Texans believe humans lived side by side with dinosaurs… and other stuff
I recently came across this poll, which was conducted about a year ago. Ok, so it's not extremely actual, but ...
Keep religion out of science class !
In a recent act that just baffles my mind, Tennesee, not one of the US brightest states, has passed a ...
Back when reptiles took on dry land
It was more than 300 million years ago that reptiles made tracks on earth. The exact moment when this happened ...
Lifeless prions are capable of evolution
Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute have determined for the first time that prions, which are just bits of infectious ...
Mammals, half way extinct??
The previous 5 mass extinctions wiped out more than three quarters of the world's animals, and if things continue to ...
Salamaders show that being different means staying alive
Remember when we were kids and everyone picked on the ones who looked peculiar in a way or another starting ...
First Neanderthal genome sequenced
The Neanderthal has spakled controversies around scientists for many years, and most questions remain unanswered even today; they had many ...
Evolution slows down as number of competitors increases
According to a new research, published in PLoS, as the total number of different species in a certain group grows, ...
Evolution – 2 billion years late ?!
Recently, the University of California, Riverside provided some materials that shocked me, to say the least. According to that research, ...
Language Feature Unique To Human Brain Identified
There's always been a lot of effort put into understanding what (if something) makes humans superior to other man-like mammals. ...
First ‘rule’ of evolution suggests life will become more and more complex
Scientists from the University of Bath have revealed what may very well be the first law of evolution, which has ...
St. Bernard shows Evolution At Work
This dog is famous in the world because it is very big but very gentle - also, thanks to ...
