A new study reconfigures the elephant family tree, placing the giant extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus closer to the African forest elephant, Loxodonta cyclotis, than to the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus, which was once thought to be its closest living...
No experience with human speech is necessary for budgerigars to perceive the difference between 'd' and 't', according to a study published May 31, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Mary Flaherty from The State University of...
The Mojave Desert is home to a population of desert tortoises negatively affected by invasive grasses and an upper respiratory disease. ASU life sciences researchers and their collaborators have decoded the animal's genome. This information should help guide how...
Detail from an embryo of the scalidophoran Markuelia from the Middle Cambrian of Australia.
Credit: Philip Donoghue - University of Bristol
The origin of animals was one of the most important events in the history of Earth. Beautifully preserved fossil embryos...
Goats graze on an argan tree. In the fruiting season, many clean argan nuts are spat out by the goats while chewing their cud.
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In dry southern Morocco, domesticated goats climb to the precarious tippy tops...
Marmoset monkeys.
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A baby's babbles start to sound like speech more quickly if they get frequent vocal feedback from adults. Princeton University researchers have found the same type of feedback speeds the vocal development of infant...
Poplar plantation. (Stock image)
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Growing plants and then storing the CO2 they have taken up from the atmosphere is no viable option to counteract unmitigated emissions from fossil fuel burning, a new study shows. The plantations...
While showing monkeys videos of social interaction, scientists scanned their brains and tracked their gaze (red dot).
Credit: Screen shot from video by C.J. Machado and D. Amaral
Scientists call our ability to understand another person's thoughts -- to intuit their...
Researchers at UC Riverside are studying the world's oldest fossil animal, Dickinsonia, to learn more about the evolutionary history of animals.
Credit: University of California, Riverside
More than 550 million years ago, the oceans were teeming with flat, soft-bodied creatures that...
Baby orangutan nursing.
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Biomarkers in the teeth of wild orangutans indicate nursing patterns related to food fluctuations in their habitats, which can help guide understanding of breast-feeding evolution in humans, according to a study published today...
Tyrannosaurus rex model (stock image).
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The giant Tyrannosaurus rex pulverized bones by biting down with forces equaling the weight of three small cars while simultaneously generating world record tooth pressures, according to a new study...
