New Theory of Smallest Human: Not a Hunter, but Eater of Lizard Leftovers
Who exactly was Homo floresiensis, the strange miniature hominins that once lived on the Indonesian island of Flores?…
Scientists Just Found a Smiling “Happy-Face” Spider in the Himalayas
Cephalothorax of female holotype of T. himalayana sp. nov. Credit: Devi Priyadarshini and Ashirwad Tripathy For more than…
Meet ‘Smilodon’ — The Sabertooth Cat With A Bite Weaker Than A House Cat’s
The Ice Age’s most famous predator, Smilodon, killed with muscle, not jaw strength, and figuring that out took…
New Research Traces Origins of Human Laughter
The way humans laugh — in rapid, rhythmically timed bursts — is not uniquely ours. New research by…
The Neural Architecture of Evolutionary Reversals
Summary: Deep within the subterranean caves of northeastern Mexico, the blind Mexican cavefish (Astyanax mexicanus) has spent hundreds…
574 million-year-old fossils reveal a lack of sex delayed evolution for millions of years
Fern-like bodies once covered the seafloor, some stretching as tall as a person. Yet for millions of years,…
Entomologists Reconstruct Evolutionary History of Millipedes
Two elusive groups of millipedes, Siphoniulida and Siphonocryptida, were the last missing pieces in the evolutionary history of…
New Feathered Dinosaur May Have Solved a 120-Million-Year-Old Fossil Mystery
The new microraptor dinosaur Jian changmaensis (left) attacks the early bird Gansus yumenensis (right) in what is now…
Rethinking The Origin Of Our Cells As A Story Of Microbial Alliances
Reconstruction of the ancestral LECA proteome and its metabolic features. — a, Broad overview of the reconstructed LECA…
Why Evolution Stalled for Millions of Years Before Suddenly Exploding
Artist’s impression of an Ediacaran animal community. Credit: Hugo Salais A new study suggests evolution stayed stuck for…
Ancient unicellular organism offers clues to animal origins
A recent study by Ruibao Li and Jennah Dharamshi published in Nature may help us understand the beginnings…
Review uses evolutionary lens to examine modern human aging rates
A review article now published in “Nature Reviews Genetics” brings together evolutionary theory, comparative genomics and large-scale human…