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. ...
Tag: evolution
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. ...
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 ...
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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 ...