Evolution

Blood Is A Terrible Food Source- Yet Vampire Bats Thrive On It. Here's Why.

good. And it can be beneficial.  They call it the "hologenome"- the genes of the host plus all its ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2019 - 10:15pm

Syllipsimopodi Bideni: An Octopus With 10 Arms Pushes Back The Age Of Vampyropoda By Nearly 82 Million Years

the idea that all cephalopods ancestrally possessed 10 arms.” Two of the cephalopod’s arms appear to ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2022 - 12:33pm

The Math Of Biology And LUCA's Leaky Membrane

its surroundings, most likely vents deep on the ocean floor, whilst holding in all the other ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2014 - 3:00pm

Where Does Everything Come From? The Life And Death Of Stars

    If you decided that idea #4 is the gem, you got it right. It is now the scientific consensus that all ...

Article - Dave Deamer - Apr 9 2009 - 12:05pm

Climate Change Means Tree Of Life Will Get Slimmer

much as 36% of all known species were in risk of disappearing, with the rate of species loss now ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Feb 26 2011 - 9:17pm

If Dinosaurs Hadn't Gone Extinct: The Evolution Of Dinosauroids

had it all covered. Dinosaurs could have comfortably colonised many environments, from polar ...

Article - Sarda Sahney - Apr 3 2007 - 1:22pm

Did Apes Develop Orange Skin To Look Sexier?

all the primate species under study to test hypotheses about the order in which the traits of red ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2007 - 11:25pm

Is The Trichoplax Genome A 'Rosetta Stone' For Understanding Evolution?

like the most primitive organisms. However, size is not all that matters. DNA sequences that organisms ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2008 - 4:38pm

How genes blind us with love (and other stories)

which are constant, present in all human societies and that make us act the way we do: love, ambition, ...

Blog Post - Emmanuelle Savigny - Aug 16 2010 - 2:15pm

Mitochondrial Genes Move To The Nucleus-- But It's Not For The Sex

plants that show evidence of mitochondrial-nuclear transfer. In all, the scientists collected data from ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 22 2007 - 10:50pm