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Ancient 'Daddy Long Legs' Revealed in 3-D Models
August 23, 2011 — Two ancient types of harvestmen, or 'daddy long legs,' which skittered around forests more than 300 million years ago, are revealed in new three-dimensional virtual fossil ... > full story -
Ancient Wild Horses Help Unlock Past
August 23, 2011 — An international team of researchers has used ancient DNA to produce compelling evidence that the lack of genetic diversity in modern stallions is the result of the domestication process. The team ... > full story -
Not So Fast: Lasting Evolutionary Change Takes About One Million Years, Researchers Find
August 22, 2011 — In research that will help address a long-running debate and apparent contradiction between short- and long-term evolutionary change, scientists have discovered that although evolution is a constant ... > full story -
Yeast's Epic Journey 500 Years Ago Gave Rise to Lager Beer
August 22, 2011 — An international team of researchers believes it has identified the wild yeast that, in the age of sail, apparently traveled more than 7,000 miles to make a fortuitous microbial match that today ... > full story -
Three Waves of Evolutionary Innovation Shaped Diversity of Vertebrates, Genome Analysis Reveals
August 18, 2011 — Over the past 530 million years, the vertebrate lineage branched out from a primitive jawless fish wriggling through Cambrian seas to encompass all the diverse forms of fish, birds, reptiles, ... > full story -
Getting Inside the Mind (and Up the Nose) of Our Ancient Ancestors
August 17, 2011 — Reorganization of the brain and sense organs could be the key to the evolutionary success of vertebrates, one of the great puzzles in evolutionary biology, according to a new ... > full story -
Nature Reaches for the High-Hanging Fruit: Tools of Paleontology Shed New Light on Diversity of Natural Plant Chemicals
August 16, 2011 — In the first study of its kind, researchers have used tools of paleontology to gain new insights into the diversity of natural plant chemicals. They have shown that during the evolution of these ... > full story -
Study Builds on Plausible Scenario for Origin of Life on Earth
August 9, 2011 — A relatively simple combination of naturally occurring sugars and amino acids offers a plausible route to the building blocks of life, according to a new article. The study shows how the precursors ... > full story -
New Insights Into the How the Powerhouse of the Cell Works
August 9, 2011 — Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. They are thought to have evolved more than a billion years ago from primitive bacterium which was engulfed by an early eukaryotic cell resulting in ... > full story -
Northern Humans Had Bigger Brains, to Cope With the Low Light Levels, Study Finds
August 4, 2011 — The farther that human populations live from the equator, the bigger their brains, according to a new study. But it turns out that this is not because they are smarter, but because they need bigger ... > full story
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