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Trichoplax Genome Sequenced: 'Rosetta Stone' For Understanding Evolution
September 8, 2008 — Molecular and evolutionary biologists have produced the full genome sequence of Trichoplax, one of nature's most primitive multicellular organisms, providing a new insight into the evolution of all ... > full story -
Long-held Assumptions Of Flightless Bird Evolution Challenged By New Research
September 7, 2008 — Large flightless birds of the southern continents -- African ostriches, Australian emus and cassowaries, South American rheas and the New Zealand kiwi -- do not share a common flightless ancestor as ... > full story -
DNA Shows That Last Woolly Mammoths Had North American Roots
September 5, 2008 — In a surprising reversal of conventional wisdom, a DNA-based study has revealed that the last of the woolly mammoths--which lived between 40,000 and 4,000 years ago--had roots that were exclusively ... > full story -
Molecular Evolution Is Echoed In Bat Ears
September 4, 2008 — Echolocation may have evolved more than once in bats, according to new research from the University of ... > full story -
Oldest Gecko Fossil Ever Found, Entombed In Amber
September 3, 2008 — Scientists have discovered the oldest known fossil of a gecko, with body parts that are forever preserved in life-like form after 100 million years of being entombed in ... > full story -
Scientists Develop New Computational Method To Investigate Origin Of Life
September 2, 2008 — Scientists have developed a new computational method that they say will help them to understand how life began on Earth. The method has the potential to trace the evolutionary histories of proteins ... > full story -
'Pristine' Amazonian Region Hosted Large, Urban Civilization
August 29, 2008 — They aren't the lost cities early explorers sought fruitlessly to discover. But ancient settlements in the Amazon, now almost entirely obscured by tropical forest, were once large and complex enough ... > full story -
Exploding Chromosomes Fuel Research About Evolution Of Genetic Storage
August 24, 2008 — Research into single-celled, aquatic algae called dinoflagellates is showing that these and related organisms may have evolved more than one way to tightly pack their DNA into chromsomes. Even so, ... > full story -
Manes, Trains And Antlers Explained: How Showy Male Traits Evolved
August 22, 2008 — For Charles Darwin, the problem of the peacock's tail, in light of his theory of natural selection, was vexing in the extreme. A team of Wisconsin scientists has turned from the question of why such ... > full story -
Tracing Origins Of Critical Step In Animal Evolution: The Development Of Nerves
August 22, 2008 — Researchers have traced the origins of one of the most important steps in animal evolution -- the development of ... > full story -
Molecular Sleuths Track Evolution Through The Ribosome
August 19, 2008 — A new study of the ribosome, the cell's protein-building machinery, sheds light on the oldest branches of the evolutionary tree of life and suggests that differences in ribosomal structure between ... > full story -
Surprising Details Of Evolution Of Protein Translation Revealed
August 17, 2008 — A new study of transfer RNA, a molecule that delivers amino acids to the protein-building machinery of the cell, challenges long-held ideas about the evolutionary history of protein ... > full story
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