Evolution
Scientists Sequence Genome of Vampire Squid
Genome vampire squid (Vampiroteuthis sp.) – one of the largest animal genomes, exceeding 10 billion base pairs. Vampire squid (Vampiroteuthis ...
Sperm’s evolutionary origins go back before multicellular animals
The swimming mechanism of sperm has ancient origins. Christoph Burgstedt/Alamy The evolutionary origins of sperm can be traced back to ...
Kissing Likely Evolved in Common Ancestor of Humans and Large Apes 21 Million Years Ago
Kissing occurs in most living great apes and probably also occurred among Neanderthals, first appearing in the group's ancestor 21.5 ...
Sperm are selfish – and so are we
Selfishness is an unpleasantly common biological phenomenon. Recent research demonstrating how genetic mutations accumulate in sperm in middle and older ...
Having children plays a complicated role in the rate we age
Some say children keep you young, but it's hard Javier Zayas/Getty Images For thousands of years we have tried to ...
99-Million-Year-Old Amber Preserves Earliest-Known Mosquito Larva
The new fossil, encased in a piece of amber from the Kachin region of Myanmar, represents both the first mosquito ...
Paleontologists Discover New Species of Early Triassic Coelacanth
Paleontologists in China have described a new species of the coelacanth genus White based on two fossilized specimens. This discovery ...
New Species of Dome-Headed Dinosaur Identified in Montana
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur based on five fossil specimens found in the Late ...
Two Jurassic Mammal Relatives Had Uniquely Shaped Jaw Joints
The evolution of the modern mammal jaw is more complex than previously thought, according to a new analysis of fossils ...
New Species of Triassic Carnivorous Dinosaur Identified in Argentina
New genus and species of theropod dinosaurs named Anteavis crrilongus was described by a team of paleontologists from the National ...
