A recent genomic study led by Ying Zhen has refuted the traditional belief that fireflies developed their luminescence as a…
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Riftia pachiyptila. Credit: Peter Girguis Research on the deep-sea vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila shows how its symbiotic bacteria use two…
Read More »A Cornell University study explores the role of maternal care in the evolution of long lifespans in humans and other…
Read More »Danish researchers developed a universal equation that predicts the wingbeat and fin stroke frequencies of various animals using body mass…
Read More »A new study has discovered that both ferns and flowering plants evolved nectaries simultaneously around 135 million years ago, suggesting…
Read More »Scientists utilize a handful of standard research organisms, including fruit flies and mice, to study the evolutionary development (evo-devo) of…
Read More »Ichthyosporeans Sphaeroforma arctica and Chromosphaera perkinsii undergoing mitosis, depicted as two halves of a cell, rendered in Haeckel-inspired tones and…
Read More »A Penn State study suggests that giraffes’ long necks may have evolved due to the high nutritional needs of females,…
Read More »A University of Otago-led study has revealed that mergansers, a type of fish-eating duck usually found in the Northern Hemisphere,…
Read More »Researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife have traced the origins of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica, to Asia, revealing its evolutionary…
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