Twenty years ago, scientists discovered a 7-million-year-old skull that they concluded belonged to a creature who walked upright and was our earliest known ancestor. Not everyone was convinced. Now, the researchers are back ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Aug 27, 2022
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Genetic information is stored in DNA as a sequence of specific base pairings. This is passed on largely unchanged from one generation to the next. But how is it possible that cells differ so massively in form and function, ...
Evolution
Feb 10, 2022
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We have always known that orangutans infants are very dependent on their mothers in their early years. But it turns out that orangutan mothers also change their own behavior to help their children learn and become independent ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 3, 2022
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COVID-19 not only affects humans; our closest relatives, the great apes, are also at risk. A team of experts, including Oxford Brookes University researchers say that jungle trekkers could be risking the lives of Critically ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 7, 2021
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A critically endangered Sumatran orangutan in New Orleans is pregnant with twins, the zoo in New Orleans announced Thursday.
Plants & Animals
Oct 21, 2021
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The first-ever Africa-wide assessment of great apes—gorillas, bonobos and chimpanzees—finds that human factors, including roads, population density and GDP, determine abundance more than ecological factors such as forest ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 21, 2021
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Several members of a troop of western lowland gorillas at Zoo Atlanta have tested positive for the coronavirus after handlers noticed many of the great apes were showing signs of mild coughing, runny noses and a small loss ...
Veterinary medicine
Sep 11, 2021
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Using an object to crack nuts is considered one of the most complex tool-using behaviors in the animal kingdom. So far, only chimpanzees, capuchins and macaques have been observed cracking nuts with such tools in the wild. ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 11, 2021
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Although each organism has a unique genome, a single gene sequence, each individual has many epigenomes. An epigenome consists of chemical compounds and proteins that can bind to DNA and regulate gene action, either by activating ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 16, 2021
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A new study classifies different types of wildlife traffickers and sellers in two of Central Africa's growing urban centers, providing new insight into the poorly understood urban illegal wildlife trade. The findings can ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 19, 2021
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