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In Birds' Development, Researchers Find Diversity by the Peck
September 24, 2012 — It has long been known that diversity of form and function in birds' specialized beaks is abundant. Charles Darwin famously studied the finches on the Galapagos Islands, tying the morphology (shape) ... > full story -
Large Bacterial Population Colonized Land 2.75 Billion Years Ago
September 24, 2012 — New University of Washington research suggests that early microbes might have been widespread on land, producing oxygen and weathering pyrite, an iron sulfide mineral, which released sulfur and ... > full story -
Prehistoric Rocks Contain Clues for Future Climate
September 21, 2012 — For most of the past decade, Dr. Wan Yang has spent his summers in the Bogda Mountains in northwest China, collecting rock samples that predate dinosaurs by millions of years in an effort to better ... > full story -
Nunavut's Mysterious Ancient Life Could Return by 2100 as Arctic Warms
September 21, 2012 — Global climate change means that recently discovered ancient forests in Canada's extreme north could one day return, research ... > full story -
Khoe-San Peoples Diverged Before 'out-of-Africa' Migration of Modern Humans
September 20, 2012 — The largest genomic study ever conducted among Khoe and San groups reveals that these groups from southern Africa are descendants of the earliest diversification event in the history of all humans -- ... > full story -
Study Shows Ancient Relations Between Language Families
September 20, 2012 — How do language families evolve over many thousands of years? How stable over time are structural features of languages? Researchers introduced a new method using Bayesian phylogenetic approaches to ... > full story -
Humans Were Already Recycling 13,000 Years Ago, Burnt Artifacts Show
September 20, 2012 — A new study reveals that humans from the Upper Palaeolithic Age recycled their stone artefacts to be put to other uses. The study is based on burnt artifacts found in Tarragona, ... > full story -
First Giant Salamander Was a Hot Hunter
September 20, 2012 — Modern giant salamanders live only in water – but their ancestors ventured out on land, say geoscientists at the University of ... > full story -
Ancient Tooth May Provide Evidence of Early Human Dentistry
September 19, 2012 — Researchers may have uncovered new evidence of ancient dentistry in the form of a 6,500-year-old human jaw bone with a tooth showing traces of beeswax ... > full story -
Genetic Mutation May Have Allowed Early Humans to Migrate Throughout Africa
September 19, 2012 — A genetic mutation that occurred thousands of years ago might be the answer to how early humans were able to move from central Africa and across the continent in what has been called "the great ... > full story
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