Oldest evidence of human cannibalism as a funerary practice

The remains of human bones with cutmarks, breaks and human chewing marks found across northern Europe show that some human groups living around 15,000 years ago were eating their dead not out of necessity, but as part of ...

The recessive genes that make a carrot orange

A new study of the genetic blueprints of more than 600 types of carrot shows that three specific genes are required to give carrots an orange color. Surprisingly, these three required genes all need to be recessive, or turned ...

Rare echidna noises could be the 'language of love'

Curtin University researchers have captured rare recordings of echidnas cooing, grunting and making a range of other sounds, but only during the breeding season. Published in Journal of Zoology, the research is titled "Sound ...

Deciphering the enigmatic global distribution of fairy circles

One of the most impressive and mysterious natural formations that we can observe in the arid areas of our planet are fairy circles. These are enigmatic circular patterns of bare soil surrounded by plants generating rings ...

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