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Ancient Crocodile Relatives' Sinuses Hindered Deep Diving Evolution
An international study reveals that the sinuses of thalattosuchians, ancient relatives of crocodiles, limited their ability to evolve into deep-diving creatures like whales and …
Buck Institute’s Innovative Approach to Lifespan Research: Insights from Fruit Flies to Humans
Researchers at the Buck Institute have bypassed traditional lifespan studies in mice by using data analysis from fruit flies and humans, identifying threonine as …
Robots and Ancient Fish: A New Approach to Understanding the Evolutionary Leap from Water to Land
Researchers from the University of Cambridge are using "palaeo-inspired robotics" to study how ancient fish transitioned from swimming to walking roughly 390 million years …
Bees win in survival wars
Like diseases affecting humans, parasites can wage a deadly evolutionary 'arms race' against their hosts. But can hosts and parasites upgrade their weapons at …
Popular male dolphins produce more offspring
The reproductive success of male dolphins is not determined by strength or age, but via social bonds with other males. The better integrated males …
Early evolution of sea urchins
New insight on the origins and early evolution of echinoids, a group that includes the sea urchins, the sand dollars, and their relatives, has …
Ancient ancestors evolved to be strong and snappy
Researchers show that the earliest jaws in the fossil record were caught in a trade-off between maximizing their strength and their speed.
New insight into the possible origins of life
Researchers have for the first time been able to create an RNA molecule that replicates, diversifies and develops complexity, following Darwinian evolution. This has …
Rapid adaptation in fruit flies
Evolution is normally considered to be a gradual process, unfolding over long timescales. But new findings show that widespread physical and genomic adaptation to …
Scientists find new colony structure of fire ants evolved in one species before spreading to others
Scientists have discovered that a new form of ant society spread across species. They found that after the new form of society evolved in …
Capturing the many facets of evolvability
All life evolves: microorganisms can become resistant to drugs, viruses evade our vaccines, and species may adapt to climate change. Even the ability to …
Gradual evolution is back: Darwinian theory of gradual process explained in new research
Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animals -- short periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or form -- have long been …
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