Evolution

Cloning Experiment Refutes Creationist

Evolution may be viewed as a controversial subject by much of the US population, but evolutionary biologists frequently complain that this controversy is manufactured by opponents of evolution who have a very flawed understanding of what the science of evo ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 3 2009 - 10:35pm

Maiacetus Inuus- Fossils Of Whales Reveal They Gave Birth On Land

Two newly described fossil whales---a pregnant female and a male of the same species--reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the transition from land to sea. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2009 - 6:33pm

What A New Fossil Tells Us About New Zealand's Watery Past

Show Me The Science Month Day 8 A tuatara may look like an iguana, but it's a reptile in a category all its own. Tuataras are most closely related to lizards and snakes, but in some ways they are oddballs among reptiles, with unique characteristics am ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 4 2009 - 11:20pm

Earliest Evidence For Animal Life Pushed Back To 635 Million Years Ago

An international research team of scientists from UC Riverside, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Geoscience Australia, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, the California Institute of Technology and the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2009 - 3:57pm

The Amphibious Ancestors Of Whales

Show Me The Science Month Day 9 In what is now central Pakistan, an eight-and-a-half foot long, pregnant aquatic mammal went belly-up, and sank to the bottom of the shallow coastal waters. 47 million years later, a huckster by the name of Duane Gish denied ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 4 2009 - 11:22pm

Schinderhannes Bartelsi- The Origin Of Claws In A 390-Million-Year-Old Fossil

A missing link in the evolution of the front claw of living scorpions and horseshoe crabs was identified with the discovery of a 390 million-year-old fossil by researchers at Yale and the University of Bonn, Germany. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2009 - 5:24pm

Another Amazing Fossil: Giant Tropical Snake

Show Me The Science Month Day 10 A pressing grant deadline is going to keep today's evolution blog entry short, but the find is no less spectacular than yesterday's fetal proto-whale fossil. A group of researchers has discovered the fossil verteb ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Feb 6 2009 - 1:31am

How Would We Evolve If We Always Opened Beer Bottles With Our Teeth?

Show Me The Science Month Day 11 Imagine a world where the major source of human nutrition was beer. That may sound fantastic to some of you, but now imagine that, in this beer-world, there are no bottle openers and no twist-off caps. To get at the beer, y ...

Article - Michael White - Apr 3 2015 - 5:21pm

Oh Genetic Drift, Take A Random Walk With Me

Coming up on Darwin's birthday, a lot is written about natural selection by non-biologists because opponents of evolution prefer to believe that biology stopped in 1859.  Criticizing Darwin and Natural Selection is a lot easier if you ignore the 20th ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 12 2015 - 10:46am

What Goldilocks Can Teach Us About Natural Selection

Show Me The Science Month Day 12 Natural selection is often much like Goldilocks- an organism's traits shouldn't be too hot or too cold; natural selection likes them just right. In other words, traits are under pressure to remain near an optimum. ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 11 2009 - 10:06pm