Convergent evolution in bats and dolphins driven by same genes
It's amazing how two different animals from two completely different environments evolve some identical physical features. Take bats and dolphins ...
Tag: evolution
From Pigeons to Email: How Sending Letters and Packages Evolved
Before mobile phones, pagers and computers were born, writing letters were one of the most basic forms of communication. Communication ...
Sturgeons are living fossils – but also quick evolvers
Living fossils, fast adapters Sturgeons have been conserved as fossils ever since the early Cretaceous - some 130 million years ...
How humans might look like 100,000 years from now
A normal human male and female from present day. (c) Nickolay Lamm Our general appearance and ...
Strikingly similar ape and human infant gestures hint to evolution of language
Psychologists closely studying chimpanzee, bonobo and human infants found striking similarities among the three species in terms of different types ...
Tiny primate fossil holds clues to human divergence from apes
At 55 million years old, it represents the earliest known member of this broad group of animals that includes humans. ...
How the turtle got its shell: earliest ancestor sheds light
A living South African sideneck turtle next to its 260-million-year-old relative, Eunotosaurus africanus. Turtles are maybe ...
Why penguins can’t fly: you can’t be good at two things at once
This little fellow on the left might look like he's about to take off for a ...
Evolution at work: swallows developing shorter wings to avoid cars
Recently, a big drop in swallow road-kill numbers was observed, without humans changing anything on their part. So biologists set ...
Reversible evolution demonstrated for the first time after dust mite genetic study
A rather well rooted idea in evolutionary biology says that evolution itself is non-reversible. Simply put, once an organism has ...
Human brain found to have unique brain structures from other primates
Humans were granted with an evolutionary edge that differentiated us from other primates and may have helped us become the ...
Is evolution predictable? Research shows specialization isn’t that special after all
There are millions of species on Earth, and naturally understanding the mechanics of evolution is of great importance for understanding ...
Only in the US: say that dinosaurs and humans lived side by side, get good grades
If you're in a biology class in Europe, and you say that humans appeared on the Earth a few thousand ...
How natural selection helped Siberian natives survive harsh cold
Though Siberia stretches across about 10% of the world's land surface, it's only occupied by 0.5% of the world's population, ...
Controversial study claims humans are slowly losing their intellectual abilities
According to a new study conducted by Professor Gerald Crabtree, who heads a genetics laboratory at Stanford University in California, ...
The evolution of creationism
Back in the prehistoric, and even Antiquity days, man didn't understand a lot of things; he took every such phenomena ...
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. ...
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. ...