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Your Christmas Tree and Its Genome Have Remained Very Much the Same Over the Last 100 Million Years
December 13, 2012 — Biologist have shown that the genome of conifers such as spruce, pine, and fir has remained very much the same for over 100 million years. This remarkable genomic stability explains the resemblance ... > full story -
Australian Multicellular Fossils Point to Life on Land, Not at Sea, Geologist Proposes
December 12, 2012 — Ancient multicellular fossils long thought to be ancestors of early marine life are remnants of land-dwelling lichen or other microbial colonies, says a University of Oregon scientist who has been ... > full story -
Resurrection of Extinct Enzymes Reveals Evolutionary Strategy for the Invention of New Functions
December 11, 2012 — How does evolution innovate? By reconstructing DNA and proteins from prehistoric yeast cells, scientists have been able to directly examine the evolutionary forces that have acted over the last 100 ... > full storyMore: -
Algal Ancestor Is Key to How Deadly Pathogens Proliferate, Researchers Find
December 11, 2012 — Long ago, when life on our planet was in its infancy, a group of small single-celled algae floating in the vast prehistoric ocean swam freely by beating whip-like tails, called flagella. The ... > full story -
Rare Fossil Related to Crabs, Lobsters, Shrimp: Exceptionally Well Preserved, Including Shell and Soft Parts
December 11, 2012 — Scientists have made an extremely rare discovery of a species of animal -- related to crabs, lobsters and shrimps -- that is new to science. The discovered species, which is up to 10 millimetres ... > full story -
Most Ancient Evidence of Insect Camouflage: 110 Million Years Ago
December 11, 2012 — An insect larva covered by plant remains that lived in the Early Cretaceous, about 110 million years ago, evidences the most ancient known insect camouflage, according to a new ... > full story -
Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Also Wiped out the 'Obamadon'
December 10, 2012 — The asteroid collision widely thought to have killed the dinosaurs also led to extreme devastation among snake and lizard species, according to new research -- including the extinction of a newly ... > full story -
Mining Ancient Ores for Clues to Early Life
December 10, 2012 — An analysis of sulfide ore deposits from one of the world's richest base-metal mines confirms oxygen levels were extremely low on Earth 2.7 billion years ago, but also shows that microbes were ... > full story -
From Fish to Human: Research Reveals How Fins Became Legs
December 10, 2012 — Vertebrates' transition to living on land, instead of only in water, represented a major event in the history of life. Now, researchers provide new evidence that the development of hands and feet ... > full story -
Tracking Gene Flow in Marine Plant Evolution
December 10, 2012 — A new method that could give a deeper insight into evolutionary biology. Biologists identified the segregation of genes that a marine plant underwent during its evolution. They found that the ... > full story
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