Life Sciences

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

Strange Behavior- Why Do Female Wasps Kill Their Brothers?

with all insects- in some cases, there is a very real battle of the sexes going on, even in their ...

Article - Cash Simpson - Apr 3 2007 - 5:24pm

Hooded Seals Get Around

evolutionary geneticist at the University of Alberta, have learned that all the hooded seal populations in the ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2007 - 2:35pm

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

Molecular Switches May Mean Biologically Based Sensors

involved, the switching process is not a binary, "all-or-none" process. Instead, the output signal ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 3 2009 - 6:23pm

'Death Stench'- A 400 Million Year Old Warning Signal

chemical was making them all go away."  The team eventually identified the specific chemicals that ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2009 - 12:34pm

Introducing The Flamboyant Cuttlefish

all dimensions. It may sound insulting to keep calling it heavy and chubby, but actually these ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Oct 28 2009 - 3:29pm

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

Get Ready For Better Apples- First Gene For Seedlessness Characterized

flowering plants quite early in their evolution. "It's a link all the way back to the beginning of ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2011 - 3:13pm