Save
Email
Print
Share
RSSStay up to date!
Get all of ScienceDaily's Evolution headlines automatically delivered to you every day by subscribing for free via:
Browse News Stories
337 to 348 of 2,227 stories (300 over past year)
view headlines only
-
Loch Fossils Show Life Harnessed Sun and Sex Early on
April 13, 2011 — Remote lochs along the west coast of Scotland are turning up new evidence about the origins of life on land. A team of scientists exploring rocks around Loch Torridon have discovered the remarkably ... > full story -
Long-Sought Fossil Mammal With Transitional Middle Ear
April 13, 2011 — A new, complete fossil turns what's known about the evolution of early mammals on its ear. The specimen shows the bones associated with hearing in mammals -- the malleus, incus and ectotympanic -- ... > full story -
Birds Inherited Strong Sense of Smell from Dinosaurs
April 12, 2011 — Birds are known more for their senses of vision and hearing than smell, but new research suggests that millions of years ago, the winged critters also boasted a better sense for ... > full story -
New Species of Dinosaur Bridges Gap in Dinosaur Family Tree
April 12, 2011 — Scientists have discovered a fossilized dinosaur skull and neck vertebrae that not only reveal a new species, but also an evolutionary link between two groups of dinosaurs. The new species, ... > full story -
Shootingstars Provide Clues to Likely Response of Plants to Global Warming
April 11, 2011 — Researchers delved into the post-Pleistocene history of two rare species of shootingstars (Dodecatheon), thinking that their response to post-glacial warming might provide clues to the response of ... > full story -
New Genetic Study Helps Solve Darwin's Mystery About Ancient Evolution of Flowering Plants
April 10, 2011 — The evolution and diversification of the more than 300,000 living species of flowering plants may have been "jump started" much earlier than previously calculated, according to a new study. The study ... > full story -
Instant Evolution in Whiteflies: Just Add Bacteria
April 7, 2011 — In a case of rapid evolution, bacteria have been found to give whiteflies -- crop-damaging insects of global importance -- an edge over their uninfected peers, new research suggests. In just 6 years, ... > full story -
Did Dinosaurs Have Lice? Researchers Say It's Possible
April 5, 2011 — A new study louses up a popular theory of animal evolution and opens up the possibility that dinosaurs were early -- perhaps even the first -- animal hosts of ... > full story -
Ancient Enzymes: Protein Adaptation Shows That Life on Early Earth Lived in a Hot, Acidic Environment
April 4, 2011 — A new study reveals that a group of ancient enzymes adapted to substantial changes in ocean temperature and acidity during the last four billion years, providing evidence that life on Early Earth ... > full story -
Scat Reveals an Immigrant in Isle Royale Wolves' Gene Pool
March 31, 2011 — Until recently scientists studying the wolves of Isle Royale National Park thought they'd been totally isolated on the Lake Superior island for more than half a century. Now, by analyzing droppings, ... > full story -
Fossil Is Best Look Yet at an Ancestor of Buttercups
March 31, 2011 — Scientists from the United States and China have discovered the first intact fossil of a mature eudicot, a type of flowering plant whose membership includes buttercups, apple trees, maple trees, ... > full story -
'Death Anxiety' Prompts People to Believe in Intelligent Design, Reject Evolution, Study Suggests
March 30, 2011 — Researchers have found that people's 'death anxiety' can influence them to support theories of intelligent design and reject evolutionary ... > full story
Recommend this page on Facebook, Twitter,
and Google +1:
Other bookmarking and sharing tools:
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 118,873
more 
