Do copy cats really exist? New study shows that cats may reflect their owner's personality
Cat owners' personalities may be influencing the behaviour of their pets, new research suggests.
Cat owners' personalities may be influencing the behaviour of their pets, new research suggests.
Plants & Animals
Feb 26, 2019
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Changes in costume in the female leads—Padmé and Leia—in Star Wars Episodes I through VI parallel shifts in the characters' positions of power, a study published in the open access journal Fashion and Textiles suggests. ...
Social Sciences
Feb 25, 2019
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By tapping nutrients from bedrock, red alder trees play a key role in healthy forest ecosystems, according to a new study.
Environment
Feb 25, 2019
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The story that's often told about crocodiles is that they're among the most perfectly adapted creatures on the planet—living fossils that have remained virtually unchanged for millions of years.
Evolution
Feb 20, 2019
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What can a billion years of coexistence tell us about the evolution of plants and fungi?
Plants & Animals
Feb 6, 2019
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Some ecologists believe that species richness is positively related to ecosystem productivity, while others conclude that the relationship is bell-shaped or they are unrelated. Using big data, Purdue University scientists ...
Ecology
Jan 24, 2019
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An international team of researchers has found evidence that shows that many modern winged insects developed from a terrestrial ancestor, not from one that lived in the sea. In their paper published in Proceedings of the ...
The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record dates to 521 million years ago in the oceans of the Cambrian Period, when the continents were still inhospitable to most life forms. Few groups of animals adapted as ...
Archaeology
Jan 10, 2019
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It is said that "clothes maketh the man."
Archaeology
Dec 14, 2018
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A new study by researchers at the University of Salford has shown that fossils are likely to be key to fulfilling a prediction made by Charles Darwin more than 160 years ago.
Paleontology & Fossils
Dec 12, 2018
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