A new study has found that plant species are adapted to the altitude where they grow by 'sensing' the oxygen levels that surround them.
Plants & Animals
Jun 1, 2022
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Researchers from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen have identified fossils of a previously unknown crocodile species in Vietnam. The nearly four-meter-long, almost ...
Paleontology & Fossils
May 19, 2022
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Maehary bonapartei represents a small reptile that is considered to be the most basal of the evolutionary lineage that gave rise to pterosaurs. A study in PeerJ focuses on this latest find while also demonstrating that Faxinalipterus ...
Paleontology & Fossils
May 4, 2022
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Scientists have solved a 100-year-old mystery about the evolutionary links between malaria parasites that infect humans and chimpanzees.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 6, 2022
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A set of Triassic archosaur fossils, excavated in the 1960s in Tanzania, have been formally recognized as a distinct species, representing one of the earliest-known members of the crocodile evolutionary lineage.
Evolution
Feb 10, 2022
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All land plants originated from a single evolutionary event when freshwater algae got a foothold on land, giving rise to an astonishing biodiversity of plants on earth. However, the group of algae that would later give rise ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2021
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The 300-million-year-old shark's teeth were the first sign that it might be a distinct species.
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 16, 2021
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It turns out where certain desert shrubs grow matters a lot—especially when it comes to making sure they don't all end up looking the same.
Plants & Animals
Dec 15, 2020
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Gentoo penguins should be reclassified as four separate species, say scientists at the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, after analysing the genetic and physical differences between populations around ...
Evolution
Nov 3, 2020
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Common assumptions notwithstanding, rare species can play unique and essential ecological roles. After studying two databases that together cover all known terrestrial mammals and birds worldwide, scientists from the CNRS, ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 8, 2020
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