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Evolution

Mudskipper CREDIT Georgia Tech

Mudskippers could be key to understanding evolution of blinking

Categories Life & Non-humans
Spiderweb with dew in the morning

Orb weaver spider glue properties evolve faster than their glue genes

Categories Life & Non-humans
Gossip illustration

Gossip influences who gets ahead in different cultures

Categories Social Sciences

Origin of Life: Unsolved or Unsolvable?

Categories Bloggers
Plant being recorded

Stressed plants emit airborne sounds that can be detected from over a meter away

Categories Life & Non-humans, Physics & Mathematics
A real fly (right) lands on a daisy petal next to the fake fly (left)

Deceptive daisy’s ability to create fake flies explained

Categories Life & Non-humans
Example of a long-tailed macaque using a stone tool to access food.

Surprising similarities found in stone tools of early humans and monkeys

Categories Life & Non-humans
The microprotein in the mitochondria (green) and in the nucleus (blue) was overexpressed in human cells. The yellow and pink areas show that the signal of the microprotein overlaps with the mitochondrial and nuclear signals.

Evolution: Miniproteins appeared “from nowhere”

Categories Health
Young boy climbing a tree using a rope

How could we evolve such a huge brain?

Categories Brain & Behavior
This photomicrograph depicts Cryptococcus neoformans a fungal pathogen that has been causing an increasing number of life-threatening infections. People with AIDS, and those using immunosuppressive drugs are most vulnerable.

Warmer climate drives fungi to be more dangerous to our health

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans
Artist's reconstruction of Ignacius dawsonae surviving six months of winter darkness in the extinct warm temperate ecosystem of Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada.

Fossils show near-primates were cool with colder climate

Categories Life & Non-humans
Reconstruction of the metoposaurs, - representatives of temnospondyl amphibians in their environment, some 215 million years ago.

A tumor more than 215 million years old

Categories Life & Non-humans
A Nile crocodile swallows an impala, its reward for lying in wait beneath the water’s surface. By resurrecting the hemoglobin of ancient crocodilian ancestors, a Husker-led team has helped explain why other vertebrates failed to evolve the adaptations that allow crocs to go hours without air.

Decoding Croc Blood: Mutations Make it an Oxygen-Ferrying Winner

Categories Life & Non-humans
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