(AP) -- One of the world's most famous fossil creatures, widely considered the earliest known bird, is getting a rude present on the 150th birthday of its discovery: A new analysis suggests it isn't a bird at all.
Archaeology
Jul 27, 2011
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Survival in the depths of the tropical rainforest not only depends on a species' ability to defend itself, but can be reliant on the type of cooperation researchers discovered between ants and tropical trees. The research, ...
Plants & Animals
May 12, 2011
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The cactus, stalwart of the desert, has quite a story to tell about the evolution of plant communities found the world over.
Evolution
May 3, 2011
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Murdoch University researchers have used new DNA sequencing techniques to help give them a better understanding of how cockatoo species have evolved and how they fit together in a family tree.
Plants & Animals
Apr 6, 2011
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An 18-year study of 27,000 individual trees by National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded scientists finds that tree growth and fecundity--the ability to produce viable seeds--are more sensitive to climate change than previously ...
Ecology
Apr 4, 2011
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When local residents are allowed to make rules about managing nearby forests, the forests are more likely to provide greater economic benefits to households and contain more biodiversity, two University of Michigan researchers ...
Environment
Mar 24, 2011
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Fossils of a recently discovered dinosaur species in Argentina is a "missing link" in the evolution of the long-necked giants that roamed the earth millions of years ago, paleontologists said.
Archaeology
Mar 23, 2011
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Lodgepole pine, a hardy tree species that can thrive in cold temperatures and plays a key role in many western ecosystems, is already shrinking in range as a result of climate change – and may almost disappear from most ...
Ecology
Feb 28, 2011
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The Internet is buzzing with the story of a new study that today's students are so gullible they will believe anything they see on the Internet, and are even willing to believe in the existence of an elusive tree octopus ...
Computational biologists at the University of Pennsylvania say that species are still accumulating on Earth but at a slower rate than in the past.
Evolution
Sep 29, 2010
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