Scientists discover the evolutionary secret behind different animal life cycles
For over 100 years, biologists have wondered why animals display different types of life cycles. Some species, like us humans ...
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Stowers scientists use cavefish to learn more about metabolism and the evolutionary basis of being a couch potato
KANSAS CITY, MO—January 24, 2023—Stay-at-home orders issued at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic ushered the hoarding of food and ...
Squirrels that gamble win big when it comes to evolutionary fitness
Photos Imagine overhearing the Powerball lottery winning numbers, but you didn't know when those numbers would be called—just that ...
New study suggests evolutionary forces are behind collective discrimination
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 10, 2022–New research published in the inaugural issue of the academic journal Collective Intelligence suggests that evolutionary ...
500 million year-old fossils reveal answer to evolutionary riddle
An exceptionally well-preserved collection of fossils discovered in eastern Yunnan Province, China, has enabled scientists to solve a centuries-old riddle ...
Discovering the unknown processes of the evolutionary history of green lizards in the Mediterranean
The evolutionary clade and biodiversity of green lizards of the genera Lacerta and Timon —reptiles common in the Mediterranean basin ...
Global change may foster short-term evolutionary adaptation in microbes
A new study led by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona suggests that global change is promoting ...
New research rewrites the evolutionary story of gills
Gills are best known for helping most fish species breathe underwater. But less well known is the fact gills regulate ...
Fish fossils breathe new life into fin and limb evolutionary hypothesis
A trove of fossils, unearthed in rock from China dating back some 436 million years, has revealed for the first ...
Dead fish breathes new life into the evolutionary origin of fins and limbs
A trove of fossils in China, unearthed in rock dating back some 436 million years, have revealed for the first ...
Exposing the evolutionary weak spots of the human genome
Mutations can be good and bad. Sometimes they help an organism adapt and survive. Other times they are so harmful that ...
Gut microbes and humans on a joint evolutionary journey
The human gut microbiome is composed of thousands of different bacteria and archaea that vary widely between populations and individuals. ...
Some gut microbes share an evolutionary history with their human hosts
Strains within dozens of bacterial species in the gut microbiota codiversified with human populations as they spread across the globe, ...
To scar or not to scar when resisting tapeworms: That is the (evolutionary) question
Lugging around a tapeworm that’s one third your body weight can be a real drag. So threespine stickleback fish evolved ...
Single-cell transcriptomics reveals evolutionary innovations in reptile and amphibian brains
Across four studies, evolutionary innovations in reptile and amphibian brains are revealed via comparative single-cell transcriptomics. While vertebrate brain evolution ...
Geosciences’ Shuhai Xiao part of international team to uncover surprising evolutionary secrets of microfossil Saccorhytus
One step forward, one step back for paleobiologists. Credit: Credit Shuhai Xiao. One step forward, one step back for paleobiologists. ...
Weird and wonderful world of fungi shaped by evolutionary bursts, study finds
Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that the vast anatomical variety of fungi stems from evolutionary increases in ...
Idea of ice age ‘species pump’ in the Philippines boosted by new way of drawing evolutionary trees
LAWRENCE — Does the Philippines’ astonishing biodiversity result in part from rising and falling seas during the ice ages? Credit: ...
Study provides novel evolutionary insights into unisexual reproductive success
Unisexual reproduction lacks meiotic recombination, resulting in the accumulation of deleterious mutations and hindering the creation of genetic diversity. Thus, ...
Hidden in genetics: The evolutionary relationships of two groups of ancient invertebrates revealed
Kamptozoa and Bryozoa are two phyla of small aquatic invertebrates. They are related to snails and clams (collectively called mollusks), ...