This graph represents the history and domestication of yeast used for making beer and other types of alcohol are revealed through genomic and phenotypic analyses. Credit: Gallone and Steensels et al./Cell 2016
Today's industrial yeast strains are used to make...
Artist's rendering of a Vivaron haydeni that lived more than 200 million years ago. Image by Matt Celeskey.
An extinct reptile related to crocodiles that lived 212 million years ago in present day New Mexico has been named as a...
Lucas Silva of the University of Oregon, standing at right, talks with colleagues while in the field on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau. His team found that climate change-induced thawing of permafrost is feeding a species of fir trees with...
An artist's depiction of what the Strud nursery ecosystem may have looked like, including the three different placoderm species discovered at the site. The species pictured, from top to bottom, Turrisaspis strudensis (left lateral view), Grossilepis rikiki (dorsal view),...
The arrival of medium and large antelope in Africa coincides directly with the evolution of thorn trees in the African savanna.Credit: Gareth Hempson
Millions of years ago, Africa's savannas were covered with thick, ancient forests, which disappeared and turned into...
The Malayan blue coral snake, Calliophis bivirgata and illustration of its venom proteome. Credit: Image courtesy of University of Malaya
Toxicologists in Malaysia published the first report on the venom proteome correlating toxic functionalities of the Malayan blue coral snake,...
The Eastern Gorilla -- the largest living primate -- has been listed as Critically Endangered due to illegal hunting.
Credit: © Hans De Bisschop/ Flickr
The Eastern Gorilla -- the largest living primate -- has been listed as Critically Endangered due...
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Would you rather get 100 euros for certain, or have a fifty-fifty chance of receiving either 200 euros or nothing? Most choose the first, as humans tend to be "risk-averse," preferring a guaranteed pay-off over the possibility...
The Black Sea.Credit: NASA
With rivers providing an abundant supply of fresh water, the upper layers of the Black Sea are less dense than its saltier lower layers. A permanent boundary between the two prevents any vertical mixing. The oxygen,...
A knot of marine rope and buoys entangled a young, endangered right whale on Saturday near the Canada/U.S. border off of Campobello Island. Named FDR, the whale was disentangled by two fishermen, a whale scientist and a retired fisheries...
This image shows elephants from the air.Credit: Kelly Landen
Researchers have announced the results of the $7 million, three-year Great Elephant Census, the first-ever pan-African survey of savanna elephants using standardized data collection and validation methods. Managed by Elephants Without...
