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Published Researchers parse oddity of distantly related bats in Solomon Islands that appear identical



A study of body size in leaf-nosed bats of the Solomon Islands has revealed surprising genetic diver...
Published Genomic research may help explain cancer resistance in Tasmanian devils



Through DNA sequencing of Tasmanian devils and their tumors, researchers have tracked the genomic in...
Published How sharks survived a major spike in Earth's temperature



The sharks we know today as the open ocean's top predators evolved from stubby bottom dwellers durin...
Published A mixed origin made maize successful



Maize is one of the world's most widely grown crops. It is used for both human and animal foods and ...
Published Genome study reveals 30 years of Darwin's finch evolution



An international team of researchers has released a landmark study on contemporary evolutionary chan...
Published Mountain chickadees have remarkable memories. A new study explains why



Mountain chickadees have among the best spatial memory in the animal kingdom. New research identifie ...
Published Newly discovered dinosaur boasts big, blade-like horns



A new dinosaur has been identified and named. The dinosaur's name, Lokiceratops rangiformis, transla...
Published Taco-shaped arthropod fossils gives new insights into the history of the first mandibulates



Palaeontologists are helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine anim ...
Published Rewriting the evolutionary history of critical components of the nervous system



A new study has rewritten the conventionally understood evolutionary history of certain ion channels...
Published Molecular fossils shed light on ancient life



Paleontologists are getting a glimpse at life over a billion years in the past based on chemical tra...
Published Vocal learning linked to problem solving skills and brain size



The better a songbird is at working its way around obstacles to retrieve a snack, the more complex i...
Published Colorful primates don't have better color vision, study finds



Primate species with better color vision are not more likely to have red skin or fur coloration, as...
Published Skunks' warning stripes less prominent where predators are sparse, study finds



Striped skunks are less likely to evolve with their famous and white markings where the threat of pr...
Published How the fish got its shoulder



A new analysis of the bones and muscles in ancient fish gives new clues about how the shoulder evolv...
Published Anemonefish are better taxonomists than humans



Scientists reveal new lineages of giant sea anemones in Japan and their surprising associations with...
Published Feeding mode of ancient vertebrate tested for first time



A feeding method of the extinct jawless heterostracans, among the oldest of vertebrates, has been ex...
Published Chimps learn and improve tool-using skills even as adults, study finds



Chimpanzees continue to learn and hone their skills well into adulthood, a capacity that might be es...
Published Echidnapus identified from an 'Age of Monotremes'



Australian researchers have found evidence of the oldest known platypus and a new species, dubbed 'e...
Published Hundreds of new genome sequences fill gaps in the fruit fly tree of life



A multitude of new genomic sequence data fills major gaps in the fruit fly tree of life, researchers...
Published Jurassic shark: Shark from the Jurassic period was already highly evolved - Jurassic Shark: The Evolution of Sharks from the Jurassic Period


Cartilaginous fish have changed much more in the course of their evolutionary history than previousl...