The cheetah is social, like primates, yet unlike primates its frontal lobe is relatively small. Why? It may be a consequence of its unusual skull shape, an adaptation for high-speed pursuits.Credit: © Jon Mountjoy / Flickr
The brains of wild...
While it is well known that changes to the mean climate can affect ecosystems, little is known about the impact of short-term extreme climatic events (ECEs) such as heatwaves, heavy rainfall or droughts.Credit: © DC Gardens / Flickr
Increasingly frequent...
The Pacific spiny dogfish is one of the most common species of sharks in the northern Pacific.Credit: Doug Costa, NOAA/SBNMS
The Pacific spiny dogfish shark is a master at recycling the ocean's toxic ammonia and converting it into useful urea,...
Phytochrome mutants grow very differently from wild type plant (upper left) under the same conditions. Work with these mutants reveals that phytochrome is both a light and temperature sensor.Credit: Vierstra Lab
Discovery might allow scientists to create crop varieties better...
Image of specimen. Credit: Jamie Hiscocks
Researchers have identified the first known example of fossilised brain tissue in a dinosaur from Sussex. The tissues resemble those seen in modern crocodiles and birds.
An unassuming brown pebble, found more than a decade...
The world is facing the biggest extinction since the dinosaurs, with seven in 10 mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles wiped out in just 50 years, a new report says. A family herd of African elephants in the Serengeti...
The new species (Illacme tobini) of extremely leggy millipede from a Sequoia National Park cave.Credit: Paul Marek, Virginia Tech; CC-BY 4.0
Along with many spiders, pseudoscorpions, and flies discovered and catalogued by the cave explorers, a tiny threadlike millipede was...
Purdue scientists got a glimpse into more than 450 million years of evolution by tracing the function of a hormone pathway that has been passed along and co-opted by new species since the first plants came onto land.
Flowering plants...
Iridescent Begonia. Credit: University of Bristol
For many people, nanotechnology belongs in the realm of science fiction. Researchers at the Universities of Bristol and Essex have solved the mystery of the blue sheen on the leaves of some begonias and...
All the known major bacterial groups are represented by wedges in this circular 'tree of life.' The bigger wedges are more diverse groups. Green wedges are groups that have not been genomically sampled at the Rifle site --everything else...
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About 150 million years ago, snakes roamed about on well-developed legs. Now, two University of Florida researchers have discovered how snakes’ legs eventually disappeared.
Snakes lost their legs due to a trio of mutations in a genetic switch...
