Museum Fossil Reveals Triassic Crocodile Cousin with Powerful Jaws
CT scans of a decades-old specimen from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History show a new species…
Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution
Some gene variants became consistently more or less frequent over time in ancient human populations — a sign…
Big-Nosed Herbivorous Dinosaur May Have Been Picky Eater
New research shows that the large-bodied ornithopod dinosaur Muttaburrasaurus langdoni from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia was no ordinary…
Dragonflies and Humans Share Way of Seeing Red, New Research Shows
A newly-identified visual protein lets dragonflies detect deep red and near-infrared light using a mechanism strikingly similar to…
The Recovery Of 12,789 Genomes Revealed The Diversity, Function, And Microbial Interactions Of The Geothermal Spring Microbiome
Community composition and functional profiles of 152 samples. a, The relative abundance of archaea and bacteria in 152…
New imaging technique captures ultrafast microscopic processes with unprecedented detail
Researchers have developed a new imaging technique that captures more information about ultrafast processes in the microscopic world…
Ediacaran Fossils from China Rewrite Timeline of Animal Evolution
An assemblage of more than 700 Ediacaran fossils from the end of the Ediacaran period indicates that key…
Natural protein sequences represent only a fraction of what’s theoretically possible
The genetic code has given rise to the enormous diversity of proteins we see in nature—and rearranging…
Lung evolution shaped body size limits in early land vertebrates
The water-to-land transition stands as one of the most significant events in vertebrate evolution, giving rise to the…
Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolution of complex animals
Artist’s reconstruction of the ancient ocean ecosystem preserved in the Jiangchuan biota Xiaodong Wang A huge and beautifully…
AEGIS tool helps scientists study evolution of aging and lifespan
Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute…
New method improves reliability of protein language model predictions
AI language models, used to generate human-like text to power chatbots and create content, are also revolutionizing biology…