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Australia’s Ancient “Age of Monotremes” Unearthed

Six monotremes living in the same place at the same time, 100 million years ago at Lightning Ridge, NSW. Clockwise…

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New Genus Discovered – Paleontologists Unearth 18-Million-Year-Old Goby Fossil

LMU paleontologists discovered a new genus of fossil goby shedding light on the early evolutionary stages and habitat adaptability of…

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A Billion-Year Evolutionary Tale – Biologists Trace Cell Division Back to Its Roots

Ichthyosporeans Sphaeroforma arctica and Chromosphaera perkinsii undergoing mitosis, depicted as two halves of a cell, rendered in Haeckel-inspired tones and…

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Johns Hopkins Scientists Discover Unusual New Hero in Evolution

Recent findings by Johns Hopkins University reveal that prehistoric worms played a crucial role in boosting oxygen levels through sediment…

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Ancient Porcupine Discovery Solves Evolutionary Mystery 10 Million Years in the Making

Biologists and paleontologists have long debated the origins of North American porcupines, with DNA suggesting a 10 million year history,…

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Scientists Identify Unexpected Drivers Behind Giraffes’ Long Necks

A Penn State study suggests that giraffes’ long necks may have evolved due to the high nutritional needs of females,…

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Uncovering the Secret Life of Fungi in Bee Colonies

By Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign June 6, 2024 Aspergillus flavus is uniquely…

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Ancient DNA Unravels the Origins of a Mysterious Lineage of Mergansers

A University of Otago-led study has revealed that mergansers, a type of fish-eating duck usually found in the Northern Hemisphere,…

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Scientists Uncover Surprising Reemergence of Once-Lost Biological Traits

Recent research on stick insects demonstrates that genes related to lost traits may be preserved over evolutionary time scales due…

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Anglerfish’s Strategy To Conquer the Deep Sea Amid Global Warming

The evolutionary context of anglerfish immunogenomic degradation. Credit: Current Biology/Brownstein et al. Research published in Current Biology reveals that sexual…

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