Meet The Ancient Turtle That Outlived The Dinosaurs — And Is Still Laying Eggs Today
The leatherback sea turtle offers a rare look into prehistoric life and reveals how a lineage can survive…
It Was Trapped In Amber For 100 Million Years
A remarkably preserved crab trapped in amber is forcing scientists to rethink when amphibious crabs first evolved. Here’s…
Scientists find out why chimpanzees kill their neighbors | Features
Alex Kraft By Stephen Beech Chimps in the wild engage in deadly battles with rival troops to increase…
Scientists Find the Genetic Clues That Let Humans Walk on Two Legs | Health
SATURDAY, Nov. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big…
Reconstruction of pectoral musculature in non-avialan paravians and basal birds: implications in the acquisition of flapping flight | BMC Ecology and Evolution
Of the pectoral musculature, we have selected the five muscles (i.e., mm. deltoideus scapularis/major, pectoralis, supracoracoideus, coracobrachialis brevis…
Genome-wide phylogeny reshapes our understanding of the evolution of deep-sea dragonfishes, bristlemouths, viperfishes, and allies (Stomiiformes) | BMC Ecology and Evolution
Phylogenomic analyses reveal novel deep-sea fish relationships Our primary nuclear exon-based phylogenomic dataset included 60 stomiiform species [31…
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades
Raup, D. M. Biological extinction in Earth history. Science 231, 1528–1533 (1986). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Benton,…
SPAmix: a scalable, accurate, and universal analysis framework for large-scale genetic association studies in admixed populations | Genome Biology
Model residuals of linear regression and logistic regression Linear regression and logistic regression are regular models to fit…
Early evolution of the stonefly lineage (Insecta, Plecoptera) revealed by a new diversity of Carboniferous stem-group species | BMC Ecology and Evolution
Individual morphological characters and their phylogenetic significance Several morphological characters observed in Carbonoperlidae support the attribution to the…
A novel gene expression stability metric to unveil homeostasis and regulation | Genome Biology
K-proportion and gene homeostasis Z-Index identify regulatory genes As cells of the same type and in the same…
Incorporating additive genetic effects and linkage disequilibrium information to discover gene-environment interactions using BV-LDER-GE | Genome Biology
Model overview We consider the following model to incorporate both additive and interaction effects: $${Y}_{i}={\sum }_{j=1}^{M}{G}_{ji}{\beta }_{j}+{\sum }_{j=1}^{M}{S}_{ji}{\gamma…
Evolution explains why women live longer than men | Health
(Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko via Pexels) By Stephen Beech Women live longer than men – except when males…