Virgin births may be common among snakes
A new review provides intriguing insights on parthenogenesis, or virgin birth, in snakes.
A new review provides intriguing insights on parthenogenesis, or virgin birth, in snakes.
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The origin of vascular plants, more than 400 million years ago, changed the surface of our planet forever.
Plants & Animals
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Researchers from Wits University and the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, together with international scientists announced on Tuesday, 22 January 2012, the discovery of a two million year old fossil fox at the ...
Archaeology
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Ecology
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Ecology
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Ecology
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Ecology
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A team of scientists from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment Tübingen was able to recover fossils of two previously unknown mammal species that lived about 37 ...
Archaeology
Mar 13, 2014
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Evolution
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