Scientists Discover New “Ghost” Species of Marsupial, Closely Related to the Kangaroo
Bettong illustration. Credit: Nellie Pease Scientists have discovered a new species of marsupial in Australia’s bushland, closely related…
New Study Shatters Long-Standing Myths About Primate Origins
The first primates were about the size of a mouse lemur: tiny. Credit: Jason Gilchrist Primates originated in…
European cisco – genetic adaptation to variation in salinity and spawning time
European cisco roe is known as a Swedish delicacy. A new study has shown that there are different…
Regulation of heterosis-associated gene expression complementation in maize hybrids | Genome Biology
Plant genetic resources The IBM-RIL syn. 4 population [19] represents a collection of highly diversified genotypes with respect…
Autism’s High Prevalence Could Be an Evolutionary Trade-Off
Scientists have uncovered evidence that autism-linked genes evolved unusually quickly in humans, possibly shaping traits like prolonged brain…
Deep-Sea Ghost Sharks Grow Teeth on Their Foreheads, and Scientists Finally Know Why
Caught male Spotted Ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei) showing the [extended/erect] frontal clasper (tenaculum) on the front of the head.…
Medieval genomes from eastern Iberia illuminate the role of Morisco mass deportations in dismantling a long-standing genetic bridge with North Africa | Genome Biology
Barceló C, Labarta A. Archivos moriscos: textos árabes de la minoría islámica valenciana 1401–1608. Universitat de València; 2009.…
New Dinosaur Species Identified in Wales
Close-up of two teeth of GSM 6532, showing fine preservation of serrations along the posterior carina. Scale bar…
Urbanization and genetic homogenization in the medieval Low Countries revealed through a ten-century paleogenomic study of the city of Sint-Truiden | Genome Biology
Lawson DJ, Hellenthal G, Myers S, Falush D. Inference of Population Structure using Dense Haplotype Data. Copenhaver GP,…
Blood Vessels Found in T. rex Bones Rewrite What We Know About Dinosaurs
Dinosaur DNA remains out of reach, so scientists hunt rarer clues: soft tissues entombed in bone. Using synchrotron…
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants
Darwin, C. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races…