Mosquitoes are some of the fastest-flying insects. Flapping their wings more than 800 times a second, they achieve their speed because the muscles in their wings can flap faster than their nervous system can tell them to ...
Evolution
Oct 4, 2023
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Scientists show that the extraordinary diversity of cichlid fish in Africa's Lake Victoria was made possible by "genetic recycling"—repeated cycles of new species appearing and rapidly adapting to different roles in the ...
Evolution
Sep 29, 2023
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New research has found that monkeys increase their use of scent markings to compensate for human noise pollution.
Plants & Animals
Sep 20, 2023
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Many pathogens, including the virus that causes COVID-19, are thought to have originated in wild animals before spilling into human populations.
Ecology
Sep 18, 2023
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Climate change is causing extinctions at an increasing rate, a new study by the University of Arizona researchers shows. They surveyed populations of the Yarrow's spiny lizard in 18 mountain ranges in southeastern Arizona ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 18, 2023
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The orbits of 27 stars orbiting closely around the black hole at the center of our Milky Way are so chaotic that researchers cannot predict with confidence where they will be in about 462 years. This finding emerges from ...
Astronomy
Sep 13, 2023
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Dinosaurs have quite the reputation for being the largest, fiercest predators in life's history. Yet, 40 million years before dinosaurs ruled, Pampaphoneus biccai dominated South America as the biggest and most bloodthirsty ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Sep 12, 2023
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Biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have found evidence for evolutionary "syndromes"—sets of traits that occur together—that help to explain how tomatoes first evolved their distinctive blend of color, ...
Evolution
Sep 11, 2023
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Ecologists have demonstrated that the genetic material that species shed into their environments can reveal not only the presence of the species but also a broad range of information about the genetics of whole populations.
Ecology
Sep 11, 2023
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A new study has uncovered intriguing insights into the evolution of plant biology, effectively rewriting the history of how plants evolved over the past billion years.
Plants & Animals
Sep 5, 2023
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