Some copepods, diminutive crustaceans with an outsized place in the aquatic food web, can evolve fast enough to survive in the face of rapid climate change, according to new research that addresses a longstanding question ...
Evolution
Jul 14, 2022
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Researchers in the U.S. and Japan say they may have found the cause of the first mass extinction of life on Earth.
Earth Sciences
May 17, 2017
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Fish was not on the menu of the hunter-gatherers of southern Europe 27,000 years ago. Surprisingly, people on the Iberian Peninsula in the Late Gravettian period mostly ate plants and land animals such as rabbits, deer and ...
Archaeology
Mar 31, 2021
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One of the world's most widely used glyphosate-based herbicides, Roundup, can trigger loss of biodiversity, making ecosystems more vulnerable to pollution and climate change, say researchers from McGill University.
Evolution
Mar 2, 2020
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A study published in Nature by an international team of scientists provides clear evidence for a link between astronomically-driven climate change and human evolution.
Archaeology
Apr 13, 2022
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Tidally-locked planets - planets with one side perpetually facing their star while the other remains shrouded in darkness - tend to be warmer on one side than the other. The presence of an atmosphere can help distribute the ...
Space Exploration
Dec 9, 2011
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An Indiana University-Dartmouth College team has identified genes and regulatory patterns that allow some organisms to alter their body form in response to environmental change.
Evolution
Nov 17, 2014
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A stark theme emerged from an annual scientific get-together in Vancouver: the world must be helped to believe in science again or it could be too late to save our planet.
Other
Feb 21, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technique has allowed scientists to pin down the timing of ancient glaciations, linking them more firmly to two bursts of extinction.
Earth Sciences
Mar 8, 2011
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With the extinction of large, non-flying dinosaurs 66 million years ago, large herbivores were missing on Earth for the subsequent 25 million years. Since plants and herbivorous animals influence each other, the question ...
Evolution
May 2, 2022
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