If you look far enough back in time, a pattern may emerge. After studying thousands of ancient fossils, paleontologist Jack Sepkoski identified such a thing in 1981: an epic sequence of life …
Read More »A type of bat that mysteriously cannot echolocate. We can finally know why
Scientists have found another piece to the puzzle of how echolocation evolved in bats, moving closer to solving a decades-old evolutionary mystery. All bats, except the fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family …
Read More »Scientists find first evidence of social behavior in mammals
How long have mammals been social animals? According to a new study, at least since the Late Cretaceous part of the Dinosaur era, which holds back the earliest evidence of behavior for …
Read More »A particular type of DNA in the owl’s eye may be a ‘lens’ that is supercharged night vision.
Owls are one of the rare avian predators that hold their prey by night, and new research suggests that the way DNA molecules are packaged in their eyes has something special, making …
Read More »New study of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA reveals a surprising link for men today
Decades of teasing apart from Neanderthal DNA have produced a collection of ancient genes that recount the history of love relationships between the fragmented branches of humanity’s family tree. By now, the …
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