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Age Doesn't Matter: New Genes Are as Essential as Ancient Ones
December 16, 2010 — New genes that have evolved in species as little as one million years ago -- a virtual blink in evolutionary history -- can be just as essential for life as ancient genes, startling new research has ... > full story -
Oldest Fossils Found in Cordillera Bética Mountain Range
December 13, 2010 — Researchers have found fossils of Ordovician conodonts dating to between 446 and 444 million years ago for the first time in the western Mediterranean. The discovery of these very primitive marine ... > full story -
Bizarre Reptile Challenges Notion of Crocodiles as 'Living Fossils'
December 10, 2010 — We all know that crocodiles are reptiles with long snouts, conical teeth, strong jaws and long tails. But, new discoveries show we don't know what we thought we knew. Rather, some crocodiles ... > full story -
Remarkable Preservation of African Fossils Explained
November 29, 2010 — The mystery of how an abundance of fossils have been marvelously preserved for nearly half a billion years in a remote region of Africa has been solved by a team of ... > full story -
Crown Suggests Queen Arsinoë II Ruled Ancient Egypt as Female Pharaoh
November 28, 2010 — A unique queen's crown with ancient symbols combined with a new method of studying status in Egyptian reliefs forms the basis for a re-interpretation of historical developments in Egypt in the period ... > full story -
Ancient Insects Preferred Warmer Climates
November 23, 2010 — For millions of years, insects and plants have coevolved -- leaf-eaters adapting to the modifications of their hosts and plants changing to protect themselves from herbivory. The abundance and ... > full story -
Researchers Kick-Start Ancient DNA
November 22, 2010 — Researchers recently revived ancient bacteria trapped for thousands of years in water droplets embedded in salt ... > full story -
Paleovirology Expanded: Non-Retroviral Virus Fragments Found in Animal Genomes
November 18, 2010 — Understanding the evolution of life-threatening viruses like influenza, Ebola and dengue fever, could help us to minimize their impact. New research points the way to a fossil record of viruses that ... > full story -
Link Between Ancient Lizard Fossil in Africa and Today's Komodo Dragon in Indonesia
November 18, 2010 — Researchers have unearthed a mysterious link between bones of an ancient lizard found in Africa and the biggest, baddest modern-day lizard of them all, the Komodo dragon, half a world away in ... > full story -
Upending Conventional Wisdom, Certain Virus Families Are Ancient
November 16, 2010 — Certain families of single-stranded DNA virus are more than 40 to 50 million years old, according to new research. The investigators found remnants of circoviruses and parvoviruses in the genomes of ... > full story -
Synchrotron Reveals Human Children Outpaced Neanderthals by Slowing Down
November 15, 2010 — Human childhood is considerably longer than chimpanzees, our closest-living ape relatives. A multinational team of specialists, applied cutting-edge synchrotron X-ray imaging to resolve microscopic ... > full story -
Molecular Fossil: Crystal Structure Shows How RNA, One of Biology's Oldest Catalysts, Is Made
November 14, 2010 — In today's world of sophisticated organisms proteins are the stars. But long, long ago ribonucleic acid (RNA) reigned supreme. Now researchers have produced an atomic picture that shows how two of ... > full story
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