Evolution News
July 19, 2024
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July 19, 2024 — A new species of fossil snake unearthed in Wyoming is rewriting our understanding of snake evolution. The discovery, based on four remarkably well-preserved specimens found curled together in a ...
July 16, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that a single-celled organism, a close relative of animals, harbors the remnants of ancient giant viruses woven into its own genetic code. This finding sheds light on how complex organisms may have acquired some of their ...
July 11, 2024 — Using genomes from 2,000 living humans as well as three Neanderthals and one Denisovan, an international team mapped the gene flow between the hominin groups over the past quarter-million ...
July 12, 2024 — Researchers have shed light on Earth's earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million years of planetary formation, life on Earth was already ...
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July 1, 2024 — Pioneering AI-powered research on butterflies has probed the under-studied evolution of females and adds to a debate between Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel ...
July 1, 2024 — Scientists discovered the oldest fossil grapes in the Western Hemisphere, which help show how after the death of the dinosaurs, grapes spread across ...
June 26, 2024 — We often think of species as separate and distinct, but sometimes they can interbreed and create hybrids. When this happens consistently in a ...
June 27, 2024 — Ammonites were not in decline before their extinction, scientists have ...
June 27, 2024 — The last population of woolly mammoths was isolated on Wrangel Island off the coast of Siberia 10,000 years ago, when sea levels rose and cut the mountainous island off from the mainland. A new ...
June 20, 2024 — A new dinosaur has been identified and named. The dinosaur's name, Lokiceratops rangiformis, translates roughly to 'Loki's horned face that looks like a ...
June 19, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and have to defend themselves against ...
June 17, 2024 — An international team of scientists has identified the oldest fossil of a sea-going reptile from the Southern Hemisphere -- a nothosaur vertebra ...
June 13, 2024 — Paleontologists have identified a new genus of fossil goby, revealing evolutionary secrets of a lineage that stretches back millions of ...
June 10, 2024 — An international research team has discovered the oldest known marine plant using a novel genetic clock. This 1400-year-old seagrass clone from the Baltic Sea dates back to the Migration Period. The ...
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June 5, 2024 — Geobiologists reported a 550 million-year-old sea sponge that had been missing from the fossil record. The discovery sheds new light on a conundrum that has stumped zoologists and paleontologists for ...
June 3, 2024 — A study explores body proportions of Masai giraffes, lending insight into why giraffes have such long necks and how this trait might have ...
June 3, 2024 — The sharks we know today as the open ocean's top predators evolved from stubby bottom dwellers during a dramatic episode of global warming millions of years ...
June 1, 2024 — One of Earth's most consequential bursts of biodiversity -- a 30-million-year period of explosive evolutionary changes spawning innumerable new species -- may have the most modest of creatures ...
May 30, 2024 — Fossils found on the shoreline of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe represent a completely new dinosaur species. This remarkable find, named Musankwa sanyatiensis, marks only the fourth dinosaur species named ...
May 30, 2024 — Plants and the animals that eat them have evolved together in fascinating ways, creating a dynamic interplay of survival strategies. Many plants have developed physical and chemical defenses to fend ...
May 28, 2024 — A new article examines the question of what Darwinism is and how its nonscientific uses relate to the scientific theory of evolution. The authors observe that while some people claim Darwinism's ...
May 28, 2024 — Using ancient DNA extracted from the toe bone of a museum specimen, biologists have sequenced the genome of an extinct, flightless bird called the little bush moa, shedding light into an unknown ...
May 28, 2024 — The African turquoise killifish lives in ephemeral ponds in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. To survive the annual dry season, the fish's embryos enter a state of extreme suspended animation or ...
May 24, 2024 — An evolutionary biologist reports evidence of repeatable evolution in populations of stick ...
May 24, 2024 — Entomologists have solved the 250-year-old origin puzzle of the most prevalent indoor urban pest insect on the planet: the German cockroach. The team's research findings, representing the ...
May 22, 2024 — Animals and fungi predominantly use two different modes of cell division -- called open and closed mitosis, respectively. A new study has shown that different species of Ichthyosporea -- marine ...
May 21, 2024 — Scientists discover 'zoned development' in dinosaur skin, with zones of reptile-style scales and zones of bird-like skin with feathers. A new dinosaur skin fossil has been found to be ...
May 20, 2024 — From the small ossicones on a giraffe to the gigantic antlers of a male moose -- which can grow as wide as a car -- the headgear of ruminant hooved mammals is extremely diverse, and new research ...
May 20, 2024 — The study's findings show mergansers arrived in the New Zealand region at least seven million years ago from the Northern Hemisphere, in a separate colonisation event to that which led to the ...
May 16, 2024 — In a groundbreaking study an international team of scientists has investigated the evolutionary patterns behind the development of sabre teeth, with some unexpected results along the ...
May 15, 2024 — The research cracks the code on the iconic baobab tree's origin story, revealing their surprising origins in Madagascar and incredible long-distance dispersals to Africa and Australia. The study ...
May 3, 2024 — Land plants cover the surface of our planet and often tower over us. They form complex bodies with multiple organs that consist of a broad range of cell types. Developing this morphological ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Researchers explain the genomic and developmental basis of the patagium, the thin skin membrane that allows some mammalian species to soar through the ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago in a group of marine invertebrates called octocorals, according to the results of a new study. The study focuses on an ancient ...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Monday, June 3, 2024
- Food Drove the Evolution of Giraffes' Long Neck
- How Sharks Survived a Major Spike in Earth's Temperature
Saturday, June 1, 2024
Thursday, May 30, 2024
- Musankwa Sanyatiensis, a New Dinosaur from Zimbabwe
- Tracing the Evolution of Ferns' Surprisingly Sweet Defense Strategy
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
- A Unified Account of Darwinism's Varieties
- Bringing Back an Ancient Bird
- How Killifish Embryos Use Suspended Animation to Survive Over 8 Months of Drought
Friday, May 24, 2024
- On Repeat: Biologists Observe Recurring Evolutionary Changes, Over Time, in Stick Insects
- Entomologist Sheds Light on 250-Year-Old Mystery of the German Cockroach
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Monday, May 20, 2024
- Diverse Headgear in Hoofed Mammals Evolved from Common Ancestor
- Evolutionary History of Extinct Duck Revealed
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Friday, May 3, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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Thursday, April 18, 2024
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Mountain Chickadees Have Remarkable Memories. A New Study Explains Why
- Genetic Variant Identified That Shaped the Human Skull Base
- Interspecies Competition Led to Even More Forms of Ancient Human -- Defying Evolutionary Trends in Vertebrates
- New Butterfly Species Created 200,000 Years Ago by Two Species Interbreeding
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Monday, April 15, 2024
Friday, April 12, 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- 3D Mouth of an Ancient Jawless Fish Suggests They Were Filter-Feeders, Not Scavengers or Hunters
- The Evolving Attitudes of Gen X Toward Evolution
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Monday, April 8, 2024
Friday, April 5, 2024
- In the Evolution of Walking, the Hip Bone Connected to the Rib Bones
- Dinosaur Study Challenges Bergmann's Rule
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Monday, March 25, 2024
Friday, March 22, 2024
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Friday, March 8, 2024
Monday, March 4, 2024
- Modeling the Origins of Life: New Evidence for an 'RNA World'
- An Evolutionary Mystery 125 Million Years in the Making
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Thursday, February 22, 2024
- Killer Instinct Drove Evolution of Mammals' Predatory Ancestors
- Snakes Do It Faster, Better: How a Group of Scaly, Legless Lizards Hit the Evolutionary Jackpot
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
- Butterfly and Moth Genomes Mostly Unchanged Despite 250 Million Years of Evolution
- An Awkward Family Reunion: Sea Monsters Are Our Cousins
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Monday, February 12, 2024
Friday, February 9, 2024
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
- Dinosaurs' Success Helped by Specialized Stance and Gait, Study Finds
- Innovation in Stone Tool Technology Involved Multiple Stages at the Time of Modern Human Dispersals
Monday, February 5, 2024
Friday, February 2, 2024
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Monday, January 29, 2024
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
- DNA from Preserved Feces Reveals Ancient Japanese Gut Environment
- Ancient Brown Bear Genomes Sheds Light on Ice Age Losses and Survival
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Thursday, January 18, 2024
- A Window Into Plant Evolution: The Unusual Genetic Journey of Lycophytes
- How Does One Species Become Many?
- Why Animals Shrink Over Time Explained With New Evolution Theory
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
- Pacific Kelp Forests Are Far Older That We Thought
- Feeding Mode of Ancient Vertebrate Tested for First Time
Friday, January 12, 2024
Thursday, January 11, 2024
- Even the Oldest Eukaryote Fossils Show Dazzling Diversity and Complexity
- Oldest Known Fossilized Skin Is 21 Million Years Older Than Previous Examples
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
- Study on Lamprey Embryos Sheds Light on the Evolutionary Origin of Vertebrate Head
- New Research Sheds Light on an Old Fossil Solving an Evolutionary Mystery
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Monday, January 8, 2024
- How Did the Bushpig Cross the Strait? A Great Puzzle in African Mammal Biogeography Solved by Genomics
- Evolution Is Not as Random as Previously Thought
Friday, January 5, 2024
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Thursday, December 7, 2023
- Molecular Fossils Shed Light on Ancient Life
- Geoscientists Map Changes in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Over Past 66 Million Years
Monday, December 4, 2023
- Earliest-Known Fossil Mosquito Suggests Males Were Bloodsuckers Too
- Crocodile Family Tree Mapped: New Light Shed on Croc Evolution
Thursday, November 30, 2023
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Thursday, November 23, 2023
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Monday, November 13, 2023
Thursday, November 9, 2023
- Bacteria-Virus Arms Race Provides Rare Window Into Rapid and Complex Evolution
- New Research Exposes Early Humans' Ecological Versatility
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Monday, November 6, 2023
- 450-Million-Year-Old Organism Finds New Life in Softbotics
- Fossils Tell Tale of Last Primate to Inhabit North America Before Humans