(Phys.org) —A missing link in the story of how the fishes triumphed over toxic oceans and past climate changes has been revealed by an international team of scientists.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 17, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

A comprehensive new study of more than 7,000 species of fish documents for the first time correlation on a grand scale between the rapidity of the origin of the species and the rate of morphological change.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 07, 2013 not rated yet 0

Efforts to restore sturgeon in the Great Lakes region have received a lot of attention in recent years, and many of the news stories note that the prehistoric-looking fish are "living fossils" virtually unchanged ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 06, 2013 4.8 / 5 (4) 0 |

Humans, like other animals, compare things. We care not only how well off we are, but whether we are better or worse off than others around us, or than we were last year. New research by scientists at the University of Bristol ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 30, 2013 2 / 5 (1) 2 |

(Phys.org) —UCLA life scientists provide important new details on how climate change will affect interactions between species in research published online May 21 in the Journal of Animal Ecology. This k ...

Biology - Ecology

May 21, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Biologists have known for a long time that some creatures evolve more quickly than others. Exactly why isn't well understood, particularly for plants. But it may be that height plays a role, says Robert Lanfear of Australian ...

Biology - Evolution

May 21, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0 |

A new Dartmouth College study finds human-caused climate change may have little impact on many species of tropical lizards, contradicting a host of recent studies that predict their widespread extinction in a rapidly warming ...

Biology - Ecology

May 17, 2013 4.7 / 5 (7) 0 |

Scientists studying how early land vertebrates evolved from fishes long thought that the animals developed legs for moving around on land well before their feeding systems and dietary habits changed enough ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

May 01, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is proposing a new investigative roadmap for the field of evolutionary developmental biology, or "evo devo," to better understand ...

Biology - Evolution

Apr 30, 2013 not rated yet 0

If you thought the only way to solve a puzzle was by looking at a picture of its end result as you go, guess again. Using an innovative approach to the study of genetic diversity, an international research ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 29, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) —If you've owned a pet guppy, you know they often jump out of their tanks. Many a child has asked why the guppy jumped; many a parent has been stumped for an answer. Now a study by University ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 25, 2013 4 / 5 (5) 0 |

An international research team in including Christian Schlötterer and Alistair McGregor of the Vetmeduni Vienna has discovered a completely new mechanism by which evolution can change the appearance of an ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 19, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 3

When we look around in nature, most species seem well adapted to their environment. Scientists have found, however, that species evolve relentlessly and that evolutionary changes occur at a surprisingly rapid pace.

Biology - Evolution

Apr 18, 2013 not rated yet 0

We might be what our bacteria eat, says a Cornell entomology professor, who is using the tiny fruit fly to investigate this gutsy idea.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 18, 2013 not rated yet 1

Model calculations predict a sea level rise of about one meter by the end of this century and of up to five and a half meters by the year 2500. Until now there are few studies on the potential impacts of ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Apr 09, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 1