New fossils discovered in East Greenland record an empty alien world from immediately after the extinction, which marked what is formally known as the Permian-Triassic boundary.Credit: Michal Zaton
A new study published in Scientific Reports shows how higher latitude ecosystems...
Dr. Gary Voelker shows museum specimens of newly documented bird species. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Kathleen Phillips) Dr. Gary Voelker shows museum specimens of newly documented bird species.Credit: Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Kathleen Phillips
A Texas A&M University...
The purplish-mantled tanager is classified as near-threatened by IUCN, but a new study suggests it should be in the vulnerable category due to forest loss in its range. Credit: Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela
A new Duke University-led study finds that more than...
Natural selection drives the evolution of metabolic dependency. Initially metabolically autonomous populations of the bacterium Escherichia coli (left panel) diversify into two genetically distinct populations (right panel): one which retains the entire suite of biosynthetic capabilities (complete cells) and...
The genome of this 'Japanese morning glory standard line' was sequenced. Credit: NIBB
Researchers in Japan have successfully decoded the entire Japanese morning glory genome. Japanese morning glories (Ipomoea nil) are traditional garden plants that are popular in Japan. You...
Today the Barberton Mountains in northeastern South Africa are covered by rocky grasslands; these hills are made of some of the oldest rocks on Earth (3.2 - 3.5 billion years old). At 3.2 billion years ago a shallow ocean...
Upper left. Kaikaifilu was found in late cretaceous rocks from Seymour island, Antarctica. Upper right. An estimated size comparison of Kaikaifilu with a human. The size of the skull remains suggest it could have been as long as 12-14...
A recent study published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports highlights a newly identified virus -- named Moku after the Hawaiian Island from which it was isolated -- in the invasive wasp, Vespula pensylvanica. The research also warns that...
3-D animations of animals from the early ages until today. Credit: UZH
As an international study conducted by the University of Zurich based on 3-D reconstructions of animal skeletons reveals for the first time: Herbivorous mammals have bigger bellies than...
By embedding spinach leaves with carbon nanotubes, MIT engineers have transformed spinach plants into sensors that can detect explosives and wirelessly relay that information to a handheld device similar to a smartphone.Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MIT
After sensing dangerous chemicals, the carbon-nanotube-enhanced...
At the Colorado River delta, cheniers of dead clam shells epitomize the carbon dioxide being added to the atmosphere upstream.Credit: Jansen Smith/Provided
Scientists have begun to account for the topsy-turvy carbon cycle of the Colorado River delta -- once a...
