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'Cute' Chimps in Ads May Harm the Species' Survival
October 12, 2011 — Television ads featuring cute chimpanzees wearing human clothes are likely to distort the public's perception of the endangered animals and hinder conservation efforts, according to ... > full story -
Sexual Selection by Sugar Molecule Helped Determine Human Origins, Researchers Say
October 10, 2011 — Researchers say that losing the ability to make a particular kind of sugar molecule boosted disease protection in early hominids, and may have directed the evolutionary emergence of our ancestors, ... > full story -
Form Follows Family -- Not Function: Humans and Chimpanzees Have Similar Long Bone Shape
October 4, 2011 — Although humans and chimpanzees move quite differently, muscle attachment sites at their thighbones are similar. This result has major consequences for the interpretation of fossil hominin ... > full story -
Fish Uses Tool to Dig Up and Crush Clams
September 28, 2011 — The first video of tool use by a fish has now been published. In the video, an orange-dotted tuskfish digs a clam out of the sand, carries it over to a rock, and repeatedly throws the clam against ... > full story -
DNA Sequences Reveal the True Identity of the Softshell Turtle Pelodiscus
September 23, 2011 — A research team has identified many different genetic lineages in the softshell turtle genus Pelodiscus, representing different species. Traditionally it has been assumed that only the species ... > full story -
Using Human Genomes to Illuminate the Mysteries of Early Human History
September 21, 2011 — Researchers are utilizing the complete genome sequences of people alive today to shed light on events at the dawn of human history, such as the times of divergence of early human populations and of ... > full story -
Human-Chimp Evolutionary Divergence: Methylation and Gene Sequence Co-Evolved, Study Suggests
September 15, 2011 — Scientists published the first quantitative evidence supporting the notion that genome-wide "bookmarking" of DNA with methyl molecules -- a process called methylation -- and underlying DNA sequences ... > full story -
Great Tits Sing Low to Be Loved or High to Be Heard
August 31, 2011 — Male great tits of this species try to sound sexy to females by singing complex or high performance songs, but may find their attempts hindered by human-generated noise. Birds have been found to ... > full story -
Single Vaccines to Protect Against Both Rabies and Ebola
August 25, 2011 — Researchers have developed single vaccines to protest against both rabies and the Ebola ... > full story -
Hyenas' Ability to Count Helps Them Decide to Fight or Flee
August 22, 2011 — Being able to count helps spotted hyenas decide to fight or flee, according to new research. When animals fight, the larger group tends to win. Researchers have now shown that hyenas listen to the ... > full story
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