Deeper male voices in primates, including humans, offer more than sex appeal—they may have evolved as another way for males to drive off competitors in large groups that favored polygyny, or mating systems where a male ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 13, 2023
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Fossil skeletons have long fascinated researchers as a window to prehistory. But so far, little is known about details of sexual development in extinct creatures. An international team of researchers from China, Germany and ...
Evolution
Jun 30, 2023
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Exposure to female odors and pheromones causes weight loss and extends the life spans of mice, which may have implications for humans, University of Otago researchers have found.
Plants & Animals
Mar 29, 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed the need to better understand the transmission routes of animal-spread diseases. A study published in Nature Communications demonstrates how the risk of pathogen transmission from rodents ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 13, 2022
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Delegates at a global summit on trade in endangered species on Friday approved a plan to protect 54 more shark species, a move that could drastically reduce the lucrative and cruel shark fin trade.
Plants & Animals
Nov 25, 2022
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Unlike humans, turtles, lizards and other reptiles—such as crocodiles—do not have sex chromosomes. Their sex is determined based on the environment, which makes them especially vulnerable to climate change. An increase ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 15, 2022
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Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and Tampere University have published in the journal Molecular Ecology a comprehensive study on the significance of species differences for the most central cell maintenance ...
Evolution
Nov 2, 2022
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Kangaroos can be dangerous. This week a 77-year-old man tragically died in Western Australia after an attack by a kangaroo, which was reported to be his pet. He is believed to be the first person killed in a kangaroo attack ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2022
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Big bones from the extinct "thunder bird" or dromornithid, excavated in the northern reaches of the Flinders Ranges and near Alice Springs, have yielded new insights into their slow breeding patterns.
Evolution
Aug 23, 2022
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Researchers studying lake sturgeon in Northwest Georgia's Coosa River have found evidence that the fish may be reproducing for the first time since they were wiped out in the 1970s.
Plants & Animals
Aug 11, 2022
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