Thursday, June 1, 2017

Oldest evidence of life on land found in 3.48 billion-year-old Australian rocks

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Fossils discovered by UNSW scientists in 3.48 billion year old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara region of Western Australia have pu...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

In brain evolution, size matters, most of the time

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Which came first, overall bigger brains or larger brain regions that control specialized behaviors? Neuroscientists have debated this...
Friday, May 12, 2017

Antibiotic-resistant microbes date back to 450 million years ago, well before the age of dinosaurs

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Leading hospital "superbugs," known as the enterococci, arose from an ancestor that dates back 450 million years -- about t...
Monday, May 8, 2017

Anemonefish dads do almost anything to support their offspring

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Like the father in "Finding Nemo," anemonefish dads will do almost anything to support their offspring. Their parenting ins...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Fierce mating battle between wild cuttlefish

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It sounds like Shakespearean drama: A male fights to protect his mate after a rival steals her away, using all his cunning and streng...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

New species of dinosaur increases the already unexpected diversity of 'whiplash dinosaurs'

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Researchers from Italy and Portugal describe yet another new sauropod species from 150 million years ago, from Wyoming, USA. The new ...
Monday, May 1, 2017

Bonobos may be better representation of last common ancestor with humans than chimps

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A new study examining the muscular system of bonobos provides firsthand evidence that the rare great ape species may be more closely ...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past

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Ice cores drilled from a glacier in a cave in Transylvania offer new evidence of how Europe's winter weather and climate patterns...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Is climate change responsible for record-setting extreme weather events?

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After an unusually intense heat wave, downpour or drought, Noah Diffenbaugh and his research group inevitably receive phone calls and...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Retreating Yukon glacier caused a river to disappear

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The massive Kaskawulsh Glacier in northern Canada has retreated about a mile up its valley over the past century. Last spring, its retr...

Precision chronology sheds new light on the origins of Mongolia's nomadic horse culture

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According to new research, nomadic horse culture -- famously associated with Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes -- can trace its roots ...

Predicting the movement, impacts of microplastic pollution

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Marine circulation and weather conditions greatly affect microplastic aggregation and movement. Microplastics, which are particles meas...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

Hunting accounts for 83 and 58 percent declines in tropical mammal and bird populations

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Hunting is a major threat to wildlife particularly in tropical regions, but a systematic large-scale estimate of hunting-induced decl...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Three quarters of deep-sea animals make their own light

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Ever since explorer William Beebe descended into the depths in a metal sphere in the 1930s, marine biologists have been astounded by th...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Melting sea ice may lead to more life in the sea

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When spring arrives in the Arctic, both snow and sea ice melt, forming melt ponds on the surface of the sea ice. Every year, as global ...