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March 23, 2025
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Mar. 20, 2025 — Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying embryonic development of the chicken, researchers from the ...
Mar. 18, 2025 — Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the ...
Mar. 9, 2025 — The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body -- closer in shape to a lemon shark or even a large ...
Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was shaped. The team found evidence of a major meteorite impact 3.5 billion ...
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Mar. 21, 2025 — Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and ...
Mar. 12, 2025 — The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...
Mar. 18, 2025 — Although fungi of the genus Piloderma are common, scientists have now discovered five previously unknown species. One of these is one of the most widely distributed species in Northern Europe, while ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — Researchers have identified the economic and political borders separating El Argar, considered to be the first state-society in the Iberian Peninsula, from its La Mancha and Valencia Bronze Age ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — A new analysis of 105-year-old data on the effectiveness of 'dazzle' camouflage on battleships in World War I has found that while dazzle had some effect, the 'horizon effect' had far more influence ...
Mar. 18, 2025 — Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — A team of scientists have elucidated an ancient mechanism of cellular respiration. To that end, they studied bacteria that feed on the gases carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and turn them into acetic ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...
Mar. 13, 2025 — Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant's teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. Geologists show how ...
Mar. 14, 2025 — A study shows that electrical charges in sprays of water can cause chemical reactions that form organic molecules from inorganic materials. The findings provide evidence that microlightning may have ...
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Mar. 13, 2025 — A researcher has confirmed a boulder at a regional school contains one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints per square meter ever documented in ...
Mar. 13, 2025 — A recent study has reclassified the species commonly known as the Javan rhinoceros, proposing a more precise scientific name: Eurhinoceros sondaicus. The research highlights key differences in body ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — A team of researchers has rediscovered a frog species which has not been seen in more than 130 years. First described in 1902, Alsodes vittatus had evaded detection since then, despite multiple ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...
Mar. 10, 2025 — A study has determined that the widely used tools available to businesses for assessing their biodiversity impacts depend on broad assumptions and can have large uncertainties that are poorly ...
Mar. 10, 2025 — Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...
Mar. 10, 2025 — Researchers have developed PhyloFrame, a machine-learning tool that uses artificial intelligence to account for ancestral diversity in genetic ...
Mar. 10, 2025 — It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid increase in microorganisms capable of performing photosynthesis. ...
Mar. 7, 2025 — An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of ...
Mar. 6, 2025 — Scientists have uncovered how plants responded to catastrophic climate changes 250 million years ago. Their findings reveal the long, drawn-out process of ecosystem recovery following one of the most ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found that when birds ...
Feb. 26, 2025 — A research team has successfully developed a super-photostable organic dye after two years of dedicated research demonstrating perseverance akin to that of Marie Curie, who painstakingly extracted ...
Feb. 26, 2025 — Although preventing all the consequences of climate change is now impossible, we can adopt policies to mitigate its impact. In a set of policy recommendations, researchers examine the development of ...
Feb. 26, 2025 — Researchers discovered evidence for human habitation of rainforests 150,000 years ago. This pushes back the oldest known evidence of humans in rainforests by more than double the previously known ...
Feb. 26, 2025 — It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the innovation ...
Feb. 25, 2025 — New research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth's surface and paving the way for complex life to flourish. By chemically analyzing crystals in ...
Feb. 25, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, approximately 14 million years ago. This journey ...
Feb. 25, 2025 — A new study suggests that Neanderthals experienced a dramatic loss of genetic variation during the course of their evolution, foreshadowing their eventual extinction. Examination of semicircular ...
Feb. 24, 2025 — A multidisciplinary and international research project has brought fresh insights into the origins and diversity of the populations that lived under and after the Hun empire between the late 4th and ...
Thursday, March 13, 2025
- Dozens of 3-Toed Dinosaurs Leave Their Mark in Australia
- New Name for One of the World's Rarest Rhinoceroses
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Rare Frog Rediscovered After 130 Years
- A 62-Million-Year-Old Skeleton Sheds Light on an Enigmatic Mammal
Monday, March 10, 2025
- Common Approaches for Assessing Business Impact on Biodiversity Are Powerful, but Often Insufficient for Strategy Design
- Evolution of Plant Network: 600 Million Years of Stress
- AI Tool to Make Genetic Research More Comprehensive
- Are Volcanoes Behind the Oxygen We Breathe?
Friday, March 7, 2025
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Thursday, February 27, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- 'Fluorescent Phoenix' Discovered With Persistence Rivaling Marie Curie's
- Researchers Make Recommendations for Promoting Sustainable Development in Mangrove Forest Areas
- Earliest Evidence for Humans in Rainforests
- Fish Teeth Show How Ease of Innovation Enables Rapid Evolution
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Giant Ice Bulldozers: How Ancient Glaciers Helped Life Evolve
- The Galactic Journey of Our Solar System
- New Study Reveals Neanderthals Experienced Population Crash 110,000 Years Ago
Monday, February 24, 2025
- Origin and Diversity of Hun Empire Populations
- Mega-Iceberg from Antarctica on Collision Course With South Georgia: Harbinger of Things to Come?
- Research Provides New Detail on the Impact of Volcanic Activity on Early Marine Life
Friday, February 21, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Monday, February 17, 2025
- Animals as Architects of Earth: First Global Study Reveals Their Surprising Impact
- Near-Complete Skull Discovery Reveals 'top Apex', Leopard-Sized 'fearsome' Carnivore
Friday, February 14, 2025
- Research Reveals How Earth Got Its Ice Caps
- Does Planetary Evolution Favor Human-Like Life? Study Ups Odds We're Not Alone
- Ancient Egyptian Mummified Bodies Smell 'woody,' 'spicy' And 'sweet'
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- Evolution, Evolution, Evolution: How Evolution Got So Good at Evolving
- Birds Have Developed Complex Brains Independently from Mammals
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Global Warming and Mass Extinctions: What We Can Learn from Plants from the Last Ice Age
- Underwater Fossil Bed Discovered by Collectors Preserves Rare Slice of Florida's Past
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- Outokumpu's Bedrock Reveals a Smelly Surprise
- Model of Antarctica's Water Enhances Sea Level Forecasts
- Evidence of Cannibalism 18,000 Years Ago
- New Study Unravels the History of the Largest Pastoral Population in Africa
Monday, February 10, 2025
- Physicists Hit Major Milestone in Advancing Superconductor Applications
- Anomaly in the Deep Sea
- Less, but More: A New Evolutionary Scenario Marked by Massive Gene Loss and Expansion
- Earth's Inner Core Is Undergoing a Transformation
- Novel Bacteria Parasitizing Archaea
Friday, February 7, 2025
Thursday, February 6, 2025
- How Life's Building Blocks Took Shape on Early Earth: The Limits of Membraneless Polyester Protocell Formation
- Whale Poop Contains Iron That May Have Helped Fertilize Past Oceans
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
- The Early Roots of Carnival? Research Reveals Evidence of Seasonal Celebrations in Pre-Colonial Brazil
- Meteorite Discovery Challenges Long-Held Theories on Earth's Missing Elements
- Cretaceous Fossil from Antarctica Reveals Earliest Modern Bird
- Missing Link in Indo-European Languages' History Found
- Illuminating the Beginnings of Animal Development
Monday, February 3, 2025
- New Research on Ancient Life Found in Yellowstone Hot Springs
- Life-Bearing Water Arrived on Earth Later Rather Than Sooner
Friday, January 31, 2025
Thursday, January 30, 2025
- Ancient DNA Analyses Bring to Life the 11,000-Year Intertwined Genomic History of Sheep and Humans
- Sharks and Rays Benefit from Global Warming, but Not from CO2 in the Oceans
- Lead Contamination in Ancient Greece Points to Societal Change
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
- Oceanic Plate Between Arabian and Eurasian Continental Plates Is Breaking Away
- Exploring Mysteries of Asteroid Bennu
Monday, January 27, 2025
- Archaeologists Find 'lost' Site Depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
- How Tiny Algae Shaped the Evolution of Giant Clams
- Unveiling Japan's Geological History Through Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits
- Preserving Asian Horseshoe Crab Populations Through Targeted Conservation Strategies
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Friday, January 24, 2025
- Study Points to South America -- Not Mexico -- As Birthplace of Irish Potato Famine Pathogen
- Evolution Without Sex: How Mites Have Survived for Millions of Years
- New Evidence Pushes Back Arrival of Early Hominins in Europe
Thursday, January 23, 2025
- New Tool Enables Phylogenomic Analyses of Entire Genomes
- New Twist in Mystery of Dinosaurs' Origin
- Rare Pterosaur Fossil Reveals Crocodilian Bite 76m Years Ago
- Plant's Name-Giving Feature Found to Be New Offspring-Ensuring Method
- Streamlining Genetic Analysis for Phylogenetic Studies
- Solving the Evolutionary Puzzle of Polyploidy: How Genome Duplication Shapes Adaptation
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
- Many Roads Lead To... the Embryo
- Fossil Discovery in the Geiseltal Collection: Researchers Identify Unique Bird Skull
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Friday, January 17, 2025
- Research on Past Hurricanes Aims to Reduce Future Risk
- Three Million Years Ago, Our Ancestors Were Vegetarian
Thursday, January 16, 2025
- Volcanic Eruption Caused Neolithic People to Sacrifice Unique 'sun Stones'
- Asteroid Impact Sulfur Release Less Lethal in Dinosaur Extinction
- Thawing Permafrost Threatens Up to Three Million People in Arctic Regions
- Speleothem and Ice Cores: Natural Climate Archives Offer New Insights Into the Climate History of Central Europe
- Pioneering Research Exposes Huge Loss of Glaciers in One of the Fastest-Warming Places on Earth
- East Asia Meets Europe in Lower Austria
- Early Humans Adapted to Harsh Conditions More Than a Million Years Ago
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
- NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble's Discovery of a New Universe
- Conquest of Asia and Europe by Snow Leopards During the Last Ice Ages Uncovered
- Coyote Genes May Show Urban Evolution at Work
- Protein Shapes Can Help Untangle Life's Ancient History
- Ancient Genomes Reveal an Iron Age Society Centred on Women
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
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Friday, January 10, 2025
- New Fossil Discovery Sheds Light on the Early Evolution of Animal Nervous Systems
- Cleopatra's Sister Remains Missing
Thursday, January 9, 2025
- Did Prehistoric Kangaroos Run out of Food?
- An Earful of Gill: Evolutionary Origin of the Mammalian Outer Ear
- The Extreme Teeth of Sabre-Toothed Predators Were 'optimal' For Biting Into Prey