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Cold winters limit northward spread of butterfly species despite rapid evolution
As the climate warms, many species are shifting northward into areas that were previously too cold for them. A study, "Winters restrict a climate change-driven butterfly range expansion despite rapid evolution of seasonal ...
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Predators drive rapid changes in guppy reproduction and body shape
An international team of biologists, led by Wageningen University & Research, has demonstrated that predators have a direct and rapid influence on how prey species adapt and evolve. In a controlled experiment with guppies, ...
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New genes, old job: Recently evolved genes play key role in cell division, study finds
Every day, our bodies perform around 330 billion cell divisions to keep us alive and functioning. These divisions rely on the cell cycle, which has been in place since the earliest bacteria. The principle is the same: double ...
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Nosy by nature: Chimpanzees and children share a strong curiosity about the lives of others
Ever find yourself people-watching in a cafe, or tuning into reality TV just to see who's arguing with who? You're not alone—and it turns out, you might have more in common with chimpanzees than you think.
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How mice 'listen' with their whiskers
Oh no! You dropped your keys on the ground, and it is too dark to see them. You might have to feel the ground with your hands, but a mouse could use its whiskers to find the keys.
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Caught in the crossfire: How phages spread Salmonella virulence genes
A global study uncovers the hidden role of viruses in driving bacterial evolution and highlights a surprising bacterial gene that helps fight back.
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Jun 20, 2025
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Insect-specific 'immune priming' affects the evolution of pathogenic bacteria
A research team at the University of Münster has investigated for the first time how the confrontation of bacteria with hosts that have an activated innate immune system affects the evolution of bacterial virulence.
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Jun 20, 2025
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Study reveals how birds have adapted to tolerate sour food sources
Sour foods are often avoided by mammals, but many birds regularly feed on highly acidic fruits. Evolution has provided them with a clever strategy to eat extremely acidic fruit.
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Jun 20, 2025
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Placenta and hormone levels in the womb may have been key drivers in human brain evolution
The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the behavioral traits that have made human societies able to thrive and expand, according ...
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Jun 19, 2025
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Two transparent worms shed light on evolution
Two species of worms have retained remarkably similar patterns in the way they switch their genes on and off despite having split from a common ancestor 20 million years ago, a new study finds.
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Jun 19, 2025
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When Earth iced over, early life may have sheltered in meltwater ponds
When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that dotted the planet's icy surface.
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Jun 19, 2025
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50 years after 'Jaws,' researchers have retired the man-eater myth and revealed more about sharks' amazing biology
The summer of 1975 was the summer of "Jaws."
Plants & Animals
Jun 18, 2025
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Key evidence links Harbin individual's nearly complete skull to Denisovan lineage
Despite their genetic contributions to present-day East Asians and Oceanians, what Denisovans looked like has remained an open question since their discovery 15 years ago.
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Jun 18, 2025
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Before dispersing out of Africa, humans likely had to learn to thrive in diverse habitats
Today, all non-Africans are known to have descended from a small group of people that ventured into Eurasia around 50,000 years ago. However, fossil evidence shows that there were numerous failed dispersals before this time ...
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Jun 18, 2025
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Size matters: Sharks follow two-thirds scaling law, proving theory
A new study has used cutting-edge 3D modeling to confirm that sharks follow the "two-thirds scaling law" almost perfectly, with the discovery set to help reshape how we understand biology across the animal kingdom.
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Jun 18, 2025
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Earthworms reveal an evolutionary mechanism that could defy Darwin
In 1859, Darwin imagined evolution as a slow, gradual progress, with species accumulating small changes over time. But even he was surprised to find the fossil record offered no missing links: the intermediate forms which ...
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Jun 18, 2025
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The first ancient flying reptiles were winners of increasing Triassic humid environments
Pterosaurs, which dominated the skies of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, first evolved to take to the air in warm and humid conditions during the Late Triassic, a new study suggests.
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Jun 18, 2025
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Bolg amondol: New monstersaur reveals complex evolutionary history of giant Gila monster relatives
A newly discovered, raccoon-sized armored monstersaurian from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Southern Utah, United States, reveals a surprising diversity of large lizards at the pinnacle of the age of ...
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Jun 17, 2025
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Jumping genes unite: How transposons cluster together through local genome unfolding
There is more movement in our genome than we think. Almost half of the human genome consists of transposons—short DNA sequences capable of relocating within the genome. They "jump" from one place to another, not uniformly ...
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Jun 17, 2025
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From single cells to complex creatures: New study points to origins of animal multicellularity
Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly genetically identical cells. Depending on the organism, these cells arrange themselves into a variety ...
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Jun 17, 2025
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