Aug. 30, 2023 —The Earth's surface is covered by plants. They make up the majority of biomass on land and exhibit a wide range of diversity, from mosses to trees. This astounding biodiversity came into existence ...
Aug. 29, 2023 —Scientists use cutting edge scanning technology to reconstruct 'fossil monster' that lived half a billion years ago. The creature's soft anatomy was ...
Aug. 28, 2023 —A new article describes the 266 fossil species as one of the richest and most diverse groups of three-million-year-old fauna ever found in New Zealand. At least ten previously unknown species will be ...
Aug. 23, 2023 —Researchers have dated drawings of Gua Sireh Cave in Sarawak, uncovering a sad story of conflict in the ...
Aug. 23, 2023 —New research suggests that natural selection, famous for rewarding advantageous differences in organisms, can also preserve similarities. The ...
Aug. 23, 2023 —The near extinction of the North American bison in the late 1800s caused a devastating, lasting economic shock to Indigenous peoples whose lives depended on the animals, an economic study ...
Aug. 23, 2023 —Regulatory genes -- genes that control how other genes are used -- are responsible for 69% of the heritability of dairy cattle traits such as milk ...
Aug. 22, 2023 —For the first time, a group of researchers have successfully extracted ancient DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick. The analysis provides a ...
Aug. 22, 2023 —Researchers have analyzed the genomes of skeletons from an extended family from a Bronze Age necropolis in the Russian steppe. The 3,800-year-old ...
Aug. 21, 2023 —When a sabertooth tiger called out, what noise did it make -- a mighty roar or a throaty purr? A new study examined the data behind the arguments for each vocalization and found that the answer was ...