Evolution News

Posted November 23, 2009:

• Supervolcano Eruption In Sumatra Deforested India 73,000 Years Ago

Posted November 20, 2009:

• Paleontologists Find Extinction Rates Higher in Open-Ocean Settings During Mass Extinctions
• Origin of Life: Generating RNA Molecules in Water

Posted November 19, 2009:

• 'Hobbits' Are a New Human Species, According to Statistical Analysis of Fossils

Posted November 18, 2009:

• Extinct Moa Rewrites New Zealand's History
• Evolution of Highly Toxic Box Jellyfish Unraveled

Posted November 17, 2009:

• Using Darwin in Helping to Define the Biological Essentiality of Silicon and Aluminium
• Slowing Evolution to Stop Drug Resistance

Posted November 15, 2009:

• Ancient Penguin DNA Raises Doubts About Accuracy of Genetic Dating Techniques

Posted November 12, 2009:

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

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

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

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