Evolution News

Posted November 11, 2009:

• Warm-blooded Dinosaurs Worked Up A Sweat

Posted November 10, 2009:

• New Fossil Plant Discovery Links Patagonia To New Guinea In A Warmer Past
• Ancient Penguin DNA Raises Doubts About Accuracy Of Genetic Dating Techniques

Posted November 9, 2009:

• Darwin Meets Facebook: Social Networking Tool Lets Natural Historians Share Data

Posted November 6, 2009:

• Male Sabertoothed Cats Were Pussycats Compared To Macho Lions
• 'Duck-billed' Dinosaurs: Last European Hadrosaurs Lived In Iberian Peninsula
• Caught In The Act: Butterfly Mate Preference Shows How One Species Can Become Two

Posted November 5, 2009:

• Scientists Launch Effort To Sequence The DNA Of 10,000 Vertebrates

Posted November 4, 2009:

• Inefficient Selection: New Evolutionary Mechanism Accounts For Some Of Human Biological Complexity
• Earliest Tyrannosauroid Rediscovered

Posted November 3, 2009:

• Notorious 'Man-eating' Lions Of Tsavo Likely Ate About 35 People -- Not 135, Scientists Say
• New Clues To Extinct Falklands Wolf Mystery
• Speed Limit To The Pace Of Evolution, Biologists Say

Posted November 2, 2009:

• Charles Darwin Really Did Have Advanced Ideas About The Origin Of Life
• Snail Fossils Suggest Semiarid Eastern Canary Islands Were Wetter 50,000 Years Ago
• Venomous Shrew And Lizard: Harmless Digestive Enzyme Evolved Twice Into Dangerous Toxin In Two Unrelated Species

Posted November 1, 2009:

• Newly Discovered Ankylosaur Dinosaur Is 'Biological Version Of An Army Tank'
• A Solution To Darwin's 'Mystery Of The Mysteries' Emerges From The Dark Matter Of The Genome

Posted October 30, 2009:

• Largest Bat In Europe Inhabited Northeastern Spain More Than 10,000 Years Ago
• New Wrinkle In Ancient Ocean Chemistry

Posted October 27, 2009:

• Novel Evolutionary Theory For The Explosion Of Life
• Junk DNA Mechanism That Prevents Two Species From Reproducing Discovered

Posted October 26, 2009:

• Ancient 'Monster' Insect: 'Unicorn' Fly Never Before Observed
• First Inhabitants Of Canary Islands Were Berbers, Genetic Analysis Reveals
• Evolutionary Past May Determine How We Choose Leaders

Posted October 23, 2009:

• Ancient Bison Genetic Treasure Trove For Farmers

Posted October 22, 2009:

• World's Oldest Known Granaries Predate Agriculture

Posted October 21, 2009:

• Tool-making Human Ancestors Inhabited Grassland Environments Two Million Years Ago
• Cell Death Occurs In Same Way In Plants And Animals

Posted October 20, 2009:

• Are Humans Still Evolving? Absolutely, Says A New Analysis Of A Long-term Survey Of Human Health
• You Say Po-TAY-to, And I Say Pot-AAH-to! Language Evolves Through Our Own Use Of It

Posted October 19, 2009:

• Time In A Bottle: Scientists Watch Evolution Unfold

Posted October 17, 2009:

• Seeing Blue: Fish Vision Discovery Makes Waves In Evolutionary Biology

Posted October 14, 2009:

• New Type Of Flying Reptile: Darwin's Pterodactyl Preyed On Flying Dinosaurs

Posted October 13, 2009:

• First Neotropical Rainforest Was Home Of The Titanoboa -- World's Biggest Snake
• Sex In The Caribbean: Environmental Change Drives Evolutionary Change, Eventually

Posted October 9, 2009:

• Archaeopteryx Was Not Very Bird-like: Inside The First Bird, Surprising Signs Of A Dinosaur
• New Mesozoic Mammal: Discovery Illuminates Mammalian Ear Evolution While Dinosaurs Ruled

Posted October 8, 2009:

• Early Hominid First Walked On Two Legs In The Woods
• Trackway Analysis Shows How Dinosaurs Coped With Slippery Slopes

Posted October 5, 2009:

• Amazing Maze Of Maize Evolution: Study On Maize Domestication May Help Improve Crop Yields

Posted October 1, 2009:

• Before 'Lucy,' There Was 'Ardi': First Major Analysis Of Early Hominid Published In Science
• Rediscovering The Dragon's Paradise Lost: Komodo Dragons Most Likely Evolved In Australia, Dispersed To Indonesia

Posted September 29, 2009:

• Feathery Four-winged Dinosaur Fossil Found In China Bridges Transition To Birds
• Evolutionary Origins Of Prion Disease Gene Uncovered

Posted September 28, 2009:

• HIV’s Ancestors May Have Plagued First Mammals

Posted September 25, 2009:

• Scandinavians Are Descended From Stone Age Immigrants, Ancient DNA Reveals
• Getting A Leg Up On Whale And Dolphin Evolution: New Comprehensive Analysis Sheds Light On The Origin Of Cetaceans

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