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When birds lose the ability to fly, their bodies change faster than their feathers
More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ostriches, and kiwi birds. In a new study in the journal Evolution, researchers compared the feathers and bodies of different…
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‘Fluorescent phoenix’ discovered with persistence rivaling Marie Curie’s
A research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has successfully developed a super-photostable organic dye after two years of dedicated research — demonstrating perseverance akin to that of Marie Curie, who painstakingly…
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Researchers make recommendations for promoting sustainable development in mangrove forest areas
Although preventing all the consequences of climate change is now impossible, we can adopt policies to mitigate its impact. In a set of policy recommendations produced by the University of Jyväskylä, researchers examine the development of…
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Fish teeth show how ease of innovation enables rapid evolution
It’s not what you do, it’s how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the innovation itself, according to new work by biologists at the University…
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Earliest evidence for humans in rainforests
Rainforests are a major world biome which humans are not thought to have inhabited until relatively recently. New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests by at least 150 thousand years ago in Africa, the home of our species.
Our…
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Humans inherited their flexible joints from the earliest jawed fish
The efficient architecture of our joints, which allows our skeletons to be flexible and sturdy, originated among our most ancient jawed fish ancestors, according to a study published February 25 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Neelima…
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Giant ice bulldozers: How ancient glaciers helped life evolve
New Curtin University research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth’s surface and paving the way for complex life to flourish.
By chemically analysing crystals in ancient rocks, the researchers…
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Pygmaclypeatus daziensis, a unique lower Cambrian arthropod with two different compound eye systems
Schoenemann, B. & Clarkson, E. N. K. At first sight–functional analysis of lower Cambrian eye systems. Palaeontogr. A 297, 123–149 (2012).
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Giant Flying Squirrels Once Lived in North America
Paleontologists have found the 4.9-million-year-old (Early Pliocene) fossilized remains of the extinct flying squirrel Miopetaurista webbi in Tennessee, the United States. The occurrence of the genus Miopetaurista in eastern North America is…
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