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Fossil Bird Eggshell Provides Source of Ancient DNA
March 10, 2010 — Scientists have successfully isolated ancient DNA from fossil eggshell remains of extinct birds for the first ... > full story -
Students' Perceptions of Earth's Age Influence Acceptance of Human Evolution
March 10, 2010 — High school and college students who understand the geological age of the Earth (4.5 billion years) are much more likely to understand and accept human evolution, according to a new study. A 2009 ... > full story -
Drastic Musk Ox Population Decline 12,000 Years Ago Due to Climate, Not Humans, Study Finds
March 8, 2010 — Scientists have discovered that the drastic decline in Arctic musk ox populations that began roughly 12,000 years ago was due to a warming climate rather than to human hunting. The research is the ... > full story -
Unselfish Molecules May Have Helped Give Birth to the Genetic Material of Life
March 8, 2010 — One of the biggest questions facing scientists today is how life began. Scientists have discovered that small molecules could have acted as "molecular midwives" in helping the building blocks of ... > full story -
Snowball Earth: New Evidence Hints at Global Glaciation 716.5 Million Years Ago
March 4, 2010 — Geologists have found evidence that sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago, bringing new precision to a "snowball Earth" event long suspected to have taken place around that time. ... > full story -
Strategic Research Program Needed to Determine Whether, How Past Climate Influenced Human Evolution
March 3, 2010 — Understanding how past climate may have influenced human evolution could be dramatically enhanced by an international cross-disciplinary research ... > full story -
Genetic Footprint of Natural Selection
March 2, 2010 — A further step has been taken towards our understanding of natural selection. Scientists in France have shown that humans, and some of their primate cousins, have a common genetic footprint -- i.e., ... > full story -
Ancient DNA from Rare Fossil Reveals That Polar Bears Evolved Recently and Adapted Quickly
March 1, 2010 — DNA from a rare, ancient polar bear fossil is yielding information about the response of the species to the devastation wrought by past climate changes. Analyses of the fossil's DNA reveals key ... > full story -
By Tracking Water Molecules, Physicists Hope to Unlock Secrets of Life
February 27, 2010 — The key to life as we know it is water, a tiny molecule with some highly unusual properties, such as the ability to retain large amounts of heat and to lose, instead of gain, density as it ... > full story -
DNA Sequence of Extinct Ancient Cattle Uncovered
February 27, 2010 — Researchers, based in Ireland and Britain, have found the complete mitochondrial DNA genome sequence of ancient wild cattle using a sample from a 6,700 year-old ... > full story
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