Palaeontologists claim to have found a 80 million year old fossil in the Gobi desert that could be a key piece of the evolutionary puzzle of how massive dinosaurs gave rise to today’s comparatively tiny birds. The newfound species, dubbed Mahakala omnogovae, measures just 27.5 inches (70 centimetres) from its head to the tip of [...]
Morays have two sets of jaws much like aliens in sci-fi movies, according to a new study by an Indian origin biologist from the University of California, Davis. After seizing prey with the jaws, the moray uses a second set of jaws located deep within its throat to reach forward and grab the food and [...]
A new research has found that genes associated with the debilitating condition schizophrenia, may have been favoured by natural evolution. Researchers led by Bernard Crespi of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, focused on a number of genes closely linked to the disease and found that they had been “positively selected” all through genetic evolution [...]
Ever wonder just why men fall for women young enough to be their daughters or women tend to hook up with men far older than themselves? Well, that’s just the question researchers at Vienna University have found that answer to.The researchers say that men choose younger wives, and women choose older husbands is because [...]
Danish researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered DNA from living bacteria that are more than half a million years old. Before this, traces of still living organisms has not been found.
According to Prof. Eske Willerslev, the exceptional discovery can lead to a better understanding of the ageing of cells and might even cast [...]