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Scientists Discover Second-Oldest Gene Mutation
December 15, 2011 — A new study has identified a gene mutation that researchers estimate dates back to 11,600 B.C., making it the second oldest human disease mutation known. The mutation was described in people of ... > full story -
Follow Your Nose: Compared to Neanderthals, Modern Humans Have a Better Sense of Smell
December 14, 2011 — High-tech medical imaging techniques were recently used to access internal structures of fossil human skulls. Researchers used sophisticated 3-D methods to quantify the shape of the basal brain as ... > full story -
Starving Orangutans Might Help to Better Understand Obesity and Eating Disorders in Humans
December 13, 2011 — New research examining how endangered Indonesian orangutans – considered a close relative to humans -- survive during times of extreme food scarcity might help scientists better understand ... > full storyMore: -
A Small Step for Lungfish, a Big Step for the Evolution of Walking
December 12, 2011 — The eel-like body and scrawny "limbs" of the African lungfish would appear to make it an unlikely innovator for locomotion. But its improbable walking behavior, newly described, redraws the ... > full story -
Disappearance of the Elephant Caused Rise of Modern Humans: Dietary Change Led to Modern Humans in Middle East 400,000 Years Ago
December 12, 2011 — Scientists have connected evidence about diet with other cultural and anatomical clues to conclude that the disappearance of the elephants led to the emergence of Homo sapiens in the Middle East much ... > full story -
Birds Caught in the Act of Becoming a New Species
December 8, 2011 — A study of South American songbirds has shown that these birds differ dramatically in color and song yet show very little genetic differences, indicating they are on the road to becoming a new ... > full story -
Why Aren't We Smarter Already? Evolutionary Limits on Cognition
December 7, 2011 — We put a lot of energy into improving our memory, intelligence, and attention. There are even drugs that make us sharper, such as Ritalin and caffeine. But maybe smarter isn't really all that better. ... > full storyMore: -
North America's Biggest Dinosaur Revealed
December 7, 2011 — New research has unveiled enormous bones from North America's biggest dinosaur. Researchers collected two gigantic vertebrae and a femur in New Mexico. The bones belong to the sauropod dinosaur ... > full story -
World's First Super Predator Had Remarkable Vision
December 7, 2011 — Scientists working on fossils from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, have found eyes belonging to a giant 500 million-year-old marine predator that sat at the top of the earth's first food ... > full story -
New Horned Dinosaur Announced Nearly 100 Years After Discovery
December 6, 2011 — A new species of horned dinosaur was just announced by an international team of scientists, nearly 100 years after the initial discovery of the fossil. The animal, named Spinops sternbergorum, lived ... > full story
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