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Evolution Oct 31, 2023

Project traces 60 million years of elephant evolution and how humans may be the species' undoing

In 2013, University of Michigan researcher Bill Sanders was invited to the Arabian Peninsula by an international team studying fossils and fossil sites in Abu Dhabi.

Plants & Animals Oct 31, 2023

Elephants: Earth's giant climate change canaries

In 2013, University of Michigan researcher Bill Sanders was invited to the Arabian Peninsula by an international team studying fossils and fossil sites in Abu Dhabi.

Evolution Oct 16, 2023

Scientists reconstruct extinct ape's damaged skull to better understand evolution of great ape face

A new study led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn College, and the Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont has reconstructed the well-preserved but damaged skull of a great ape species ...

Astronomy Oct 3, 2023

Webb's wide-angle view of the Orion Nebula is released on ESASky

New images of the Orion Nebula from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have been included in ESA's ESASky application, which has a user-friendly interface to visualize and download astronomical data.

Planetary Sciences Sep 26, 2023

The darkest parts of the moon are revealed with NASA's new camera

While the surface of the moon has been mapped in incredible detail over the last several decades, one region has eluded orbital cameras due to the lack of sunlight, which are aptly called the permanently shadowed regions ...

Evolution Sep 19, 2023

Tiny sea creatures reveal the ancient origins of neurons

A study in the journal Cell sheds new light on the evolution of neurons, focusing on the placozoans, a millimeter-sized marine animal. Researchers at the Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona find evidence that specialized ...

Evolution Sep 19, 2023

Grassland expansion was not a main driver of mammal evolution in Plio-Pleistocene Africa, research suggests

Mammal evolution in Africa, including that of modern human ancestors, through the late Cenozoic (Plio-Pleistocene, ~5.3 million years ago) may not have been driven by the expansion of grasslands as previously thought, new ...

Evolution Sep 18, 2023

Genomes of enigmatic tusk shells provide new insights into early molluscan evolution

Accurate phylogenetic trees are fundamental to evolutionary and comparative biology, but the almost simultaneous emergence of major animal phyla and diverse body plans during the Cambrian Explosion poses major challenges ...

Evolution Sep 6, 2023

Chinese paleontologists find new fossil link in bird evolution

Birds descended from theropod dinosaurs by the Late Jurassic, but our understanding of the earliest evolution of the Avialae, the clade comprising all modern birds but not Deinonychus or Troodon, has been hampered by a limited ...

Biotechnology Aug 10, 2023

Novel algorithm able to detect mutations in single-cell sequencing data sets

Single-cell RNA sequencing data are useful for studying cell phenotypes and function. However, deciphering the clonal relationships of cells is critical to understanding the patterns of cell migration during development and ...

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