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How Birds Evolved Big Brains

Apr. 23, 2020 — Evolutionary biologists and paleontologists have reconstructed the evolution of the avian brain using a massive dataset of brain volumes from dinosaurs, extinct birds like ... read more

Pterosaurs and Other Fossil Flyers to Better Engineer Human-Made Flight

Apr. 15, 2020 — Pterosaurs were the largest animals ever to fly. They soared the skies for 160 million years -- much longer than any species of modern bird. Despite their aeronautic excellence, these ancient flyers ... read more
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When Three Species of Human Ancestor Walked the Earth

Apr. 2, 2020 — Scientists share details of the most ancient fossil of Homo erectus known and discuss how these new findings are forcing us to rewrite a part of our species' ... read more
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Lucy Had an Ape-Like Brain

Apr. 3, 2020 — A new study led by paleoanthropologists reveals that Lucy's species Australopithecus afarensis had an ape-like brain. However, the protracted brain growth suggests that -- as ... read more
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Modern Humans, Neanderthals Share a Tangled Genetic History, Study Affirms

Apr. 1, 2020 — A new study reinforces the concept that Neanderthal DNA has been woven into the modern human genome on multiple occasions as our ancestors met Neanderthals time and again in different parts of the ... read more
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Oldest Ever Human Genetic Evidence Clarifies Dispute Over Our Ancestors

Apr. 1, 2020 — Genetic information from an 800,000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time. The results shed light on one of the branching points in the human family tree, reaching much further ... read more

Regular Climbing Behavior in a Human Ancestor

Mar. 30, 2020 — A new study has found evidence that human ancestors as recent as two million years ago may have regularly climbed ... read more

Sturgeon Genome Sequenced

Mar. 30, 2020 — Sturgeons lived on earth already 300 million years ago and yet their external appearance seems to have undergone very little change. A team of researchers has now succeeded in sequencing their ... read more

Small Horses Got Smaller, Big Tapirs Got Bigger 47 Million Years Ago

Mar. 24, 2020 — The former coalfield of Geiseltal in Saxony-Anhalt has yielded large numbers of exceptionally preserved fossil animals, giving palaeontologists a unique window into the evolution of mammals 47 ... read more

Global Human Genomes Reveal Rich Genetic Diversity Shaped by Complex Evolutionary History

Mar. 19, 2020 — A new study has provided the most comprehensive analysis of human genetic diversity to date, after the sequencing of 929 human genomes. The study uncovers a large amount of previously undescribed ... read more

Ancient Fish Fossil Reveals Evolutionary Origin of the Human Hand

Mar. 18, 2020 — An ancient Elpistostege fish fossil found in Miguasha, Canada, has revealed new insights into how the human hand evolved from fish fins. Paleontologists have revealed the fish specimen has yielded ... read more

One of Darwin's Evolution Theories Finally Proved

Mar. 17, 2020 — Scientists have proved one of Charles Darwin's theories of evolution for the first time -- nearly 140 years after his death. Researchers discovered mammal subspecies play a more important role ... read more

Scientists Have Discovered the Origins of the Building Blocks of Life

Mar. 16, 2020 — Researchers have discovered the origins of the protein structures responsible for metabolism: simple molecules that powered early life on Earth and serve as chemical signals that NASA could use to ... read more
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Early Evolution of the Brain's Cortex Revealed in New Study

Mar. 16, 2020 — Research on the lamprey brain has enabled scientists to push the birth of the cortex back in time by some 300 million years to over 500 million years ago, providing new insights into brain ... read more

Metabolic Fossils from the Origin of Life

Mar. 12, 2020 — Since the origin of life, metabolic networks provide cells with nutrition and energy. Modern networks require thousands of enzymes that perform catalysis. Such networks must have arisen from simpler ... read more

Dinosaur Stomping Ground in Scotland Reveals Thriving Middle Jurassic Ecosystem

Mar. 11, 2020 — During the Middle Jurassic Period, the Isle of Skye in Scotland was home to a thriving community of dinosaurs that stomped across the ancient coastline, according to a new ... read more

Bulb Size Matters: Uncovering the Evolution of the Plant Kingdom's Doomsday Preppers

Mar. 9, 2020 — Bulbs are doomsday preppers, storing up resources underground to ride out disaster. The bigger the bulb, the bigger the stockpile. So, how come their sizes vary so ... read more

Apes' Inner Ears Could Hide Clues to Evolutionary History of Hominoids

Mar. 3, 2020 — Studying the inner ear of apes and humans could uncover new information on our species' evolutionary relationships, suggests a new ... read more

Anthropogenic Seed Dispersal: Rethinking the Origins of Plant Domestication

Feb. 27, 2020 — Over the past three millennia, selective breeding has dramatically widened the array of plant domestication traits. However, a close look at the archaeobotanical record illustrates a similar suite of ... read more

Early Worm Lost Lower Limbs for Tube-Dwelling Lifestyle

Feb. 27, 2020 — Scientists have discovered the earliest known example of an animal evolving to lose body parts it no longer ... read more

Gene Loss More Important in Animal Kingdom Evolution Than Previously Thought

Feb. 27, 2020 — Scientists have shown that some key points of animal evolution -- like the ones leading to humans or insects -- were associated with a large loss of genes in the genome. The study compared over 100 ... read more
Salmon (stock image). The new parasitic organism lives in salmon muscle. | Credit: (c) Conrad / stock.adobe.com

Unique Non-Oxygen Breathing Animal Discovered

Feb. 25, 2020 — Scientists have discovered a new non-oxygen breathing animal. The tiny, less than 10-celled parasite demonstrates that evolution can go in strange directions, the researchers ... read more

One Billion-Year-Old Green Seaweed Fossils Identified, Relative of Modern Land Plants

Feb. 24, 2020 — Paleontologists have made a remarkable discovery in China: 1 billion-year-old micro-fossils of green seaweeds that could be related to the ancestor of the earliest land plants and trees that first ... read more

Oldest Reconstructed Bacterial Genomes Link Farming, Herding With Emergence of New Disease

Feb. 24, 2020 — Using Salmonella enterica genomes recovered from human skeletons as old as 6,500 years, an international team of researchers illustrates the evolution of a human pathogen and provides the first ... read more
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