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Dec 30 • 4 months ago

Looking for friends, lobsters may stumble into an ecological trap

Gathering for mutual defense puts young spiny lobsters at risk of predators. ...

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Dec 20 • 5 months ago

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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Dec 14 • 5 months ago

Little Foot hominin fossil may be new species of human ancestor

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 Foot, one of the world’s most complete homini...

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Dec 04 • 5 months ago

Humans in southern Africa were an isolated population until recently

A distinct population that was isolated until the last thousand years or so. ...

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Nov 22 • 5 months ago

AI trained on bacterial genomes produces never-before-seen proteins

Genes with related functions cluster together, and the AI uses that. ...

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Nov 16 • 6 months ago

The evolution of rationality: How chimps process conflicting evidence

Chimps can take in new evidence, evaluate its strength, and change their minds. ...

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Nov 14 • 6 months ago

World’s oldest RNA extracted from Ice Age woolly mammoth

Sequencing an ancient creature’s RNA opens up a new window into extinct life. ...

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Nov 12 • 6 months ago

Corals survived past climate changes by retreating to the deeps

A recent die-off in Florida puts the spotlight on corals' survival strategies. ...

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Oct 24 • 6 months ago

Dinosaurs may have flourished right up to when the asteroid hit

Fossil beds in New Mexico show diverse species present in the late Cretaceous. ...

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Sep 28 • 7 months ago

Fiji’s ants might be the canary in the coal mine for the insect apocalypse

A new genetic technique lets museum samples track population dynamics. ...

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Sep 18 • 8 months ago

You can hold on to your butts thanks to DNA that evolved in fish

Making digits seems to involve gene activity that was needed to make a cloaca. ...

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Aug 28 • 8 months ago

New dinosaur species is the punk rock version of an ankylosaur

A species known only by a single rib turns out to be covered with meter-long spikes. ...

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