The world's first family tree linking all living bids and revealing when and where they evolved and diversified since dinosaurs walked the earth has been created by scientists from the University of Sheffield.
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2012
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Most researchers imagine the initial oxygenation of the ocean and atmosphere to have been something like a staircase, but with steps only going up. The first step, so the story goes, occurred around 2.4 billion years ago, ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2012
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Evolutionary relationships among a group of arthropods from Gondwana, a supercontinent that existed between 510 and 180 million years ago, were investigated by EU scientists using molecular sequencing technology. The results ...
Ecology
Sep 17, 2012
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Aside from market fluctuations and changes in commodity prices, climate variability is the greatest threat to the long-term economic viability of dryland farms. In order to counter these uncertainties, many farmers have turned ...
Ecology
Jul 11, 2012
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(AP) — Dell is buying Quest Software for $2.4 billion to expand its offerings as its personal computer business weakens in an era of smartphones and sleeker devices like the iPad.
Business
Jul 2, 2012
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A new study indicates that mass extinctions affect the pace of evolution, not just in the immediate aftermath of catastrophe, but for millions of years to follow. The study's authors, University of Chicago's Andrew Z. Krug ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 2, 2012
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Inexperienced mutual-fund managers and those working for funds with limited resources tend to invest too heavily in companies from their home states without the benefit of actual knowledge of the companies.
Economics & Business
Jun 19, 2012
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Wine investors are warned not to put all their eggs in one French basket in a new report from the University of East Anglia.
Social Sciences
May 30, 2012
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Researchers have reconstructed phylogenetic relationships among all 706 families of land plants.
Evolution
Apr 5, 2012
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A team of paleontologists has discovered the oldest animal with a skeleton. Called Coronacollina acula, the organism is between 560 million and 550 million years old, which places it in the Ediacaran period, before the explosion ...
Archaeology
Mar 8, 2012
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