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The evolution of expendability: Why some ants traded armor for numbers
Ants with lots of workers tend to put less energy into making them armored. ...
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Ants with lots of workers tend to put less energy into making them armored. ...
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Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system Little...
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A distinct population that was isolated until the last thousand years or so. ...
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Genes with related functions cluster together, and the AI uses that. ...
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Chimps can take in new evidence, evaluate its strength, and change their minds. ...
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Sequencing an ancient creature’s RNA opens up a new window into extinct life. ...
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A recent die-off in Florida puts the spotlight on corals' survival strategies. ...
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Fossil beds in New Mexico show diverse species present in the late Cretaceous. ...
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A new genetic technique lets museum samples track population dynamics. ...
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Making digits seems to involve gene activity that was needed to make a cloaca. ...
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A species known only by a single rib turns out to be covered with meter-long spikes. ...
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Ant eating is widely distributed across mammalian lineages. ...