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Giant Moa Rebuilt Using Ancient DNA From Prehistoric Feathers
Scientists have performed
the first DNA-based
reconstruction of the giant
extinct moa bird, using
prehistoric feathers
recovered from caves and
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Plants Save The Earth From An Icy Doom
When glaciers advanced over
much of the Earth's surface
during the last ice age,
what kept the planet from
freezing over entirely? This
has been a puzzle to climate
scientists because leading
... > full story
Ferns Took To The Trees And Thrived
As flowering plants like
giant trees quickly rose to
dominate plant communities
during the Cretaceous
period, the ferns that had
preceded them hardly saw it
as a disappointment. ... > full story
New Fossil Primate Suggests Common Asian Ancestor, Challenges Primates Such As 'Ida'
A new fossil primate from
Myanmar (previously known as
Burma) suggests that the
common ancestor of humans,
monkeys and apes evolved
... > full story
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King Crabs Go Deep To Avoid Hot Water
July 2, 2009 — Researchers have drawn together 200 years' worth of oceanographic knowledge to investigate the distribution of a notorious deep-sea giant - the king crab. The results reveal temperature as a driving ... > full story -
Study Of Flower Color Shows Evolution In Action
June 30, 2009 — Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have zeroed in on the genes responsible for changing flower color, an area of research that began with Gregor Mendel's studies of the garden pea in the ... > full story -
Natural-born Divers And The Molecular Traces Of Evolution
June 30, 2009 — When the ancestors of present marine mammals returned to the oceans, their physiology had to adapt radically. Scientists have been studying how myoglobin, the molecule responsible for delivering ... > full story -
Darwin Killed Off The Werewolf
June 30, 2009 — It was Darwinian theory that did away with the werewolf. The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species exactly 150 years ago focused minds on a different kind of monster – ... > full story -
Gene Evolution Process Discovered
June 26, 2009 — One of the mechanisms governing how our physical features and behavioral traits have evolved over centuries has been ... > full story -
Discovery Of Elephants' Oldest Known Relative
June 26, 2009 — Paleontologists have discovered one of the oldest modern ungulates related to the elephant ... > full story -
Monkeys And Humans Use Parallel Mechanism To Recognize Faces
June 25, 2009 — Researchers have demonstrated for the first time rhesus monkeys and humans share a specific perceptual mechanism, configural perception, for discriminating among the numerous faces they encounter ... > full story -
How Big A Role Does Chance Play In The History Of Life?
June 23, 2009 — Researchers have discovered a group of closely related living species that independently repeated the different step-like changes that occurred in the major diversification of their kind during the ... > full story -
54-million-year-old Skull Reveals Early Evolution Of Primate Brains
June 23, 2009 — Researchers have developed the first detailed images of a primitive primate brain, unexpectedly revealing that cousins of our earliest ancestors relied on smell more than ... > full story -
Social Competition May Be Reason For Bigger Brain
June 23, 2009 — For the past 2 million years, the size of the human brain has tripled, growing much faster than other mammals. Examining the reasons for human brain expansion, researchers studied three common ... > full story
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