Environment
Fact or Fiction?: Mammoths Can Be Brought Back from Extinction
Is de-extinction a real possibility?
Evolutionary Biology1967 articles archived since 1845
Crocodylomorphs: Better Than Dinosaurs and Mammals Combined
Crocodiles, alligators and gharials are the modern members of a far grander, far more diverse clade of archosaurian reptiles termed Crocodylomorpha.
Evolution
California Chrome's Genes May Be Key to Race for Triple Crown
California Chrome lacks a prestigious pedigree, but bears genes that make him born to run
The Sciences
Students Build the First Eukaryotic Chromosome from Scratch
The feat is a landmark achievement in synthetic biology
Evolution
Models salamanders, in a cave
While on a family holiday recently I visited Dan yr Ogof, the famous National Show Cave for Wales. Besides being interesting for the expected geological and speleological reasons, Dan yr Ogof is set within landscaped gardens that, bizarrely, feature one of Europe's largest `dinosaur parks'...
Evolution
3 New Species of Weird, Endangered Fish Discovered in India, U.S and Colombia
“It’s a strange world. Let’s keep it that way.”—Warren Ellis You can find some pretty weird things when you go poking around in holes in remote parts of the globe...
Evolution
Lyme Disease’s Possible Bacterial Predecessor Found in Ancient Tick
A juvenile tick trapped in a 15-million- to 20-million-year-old piece of amber contains a bacterium that could be the oldest documented ancestor of the microbe that causes Lyme disease
Evolution
Big-Eared Bat, Once Feared Extinct, Rediscovered after 120 Years
Sometimes research into one question reveals the answer to another. In July 2012 Catherine Hughes and Julie Broken-Brow, students at the University of Queensland in Australia, were in Papua New Guinea studying how the region’s tiny microbats responded to sustainable logging of their forest homes...
Evolution
Forget T. Rex: Long-Necked Dinosaurs Ruled the Planet
The long-necked dinosaurs known as sauropods, once seen as icons of extinction, thrived for millions of years around the world
Evolution
Evolution Sparks Silence of the Crickets
Males on two Hawaiian islands simultaneously went mute in just a few years to avoid a parasite
Mind & Brain
Vision Involves a Bit of Hearing, Too
Researchers could tell what sounds blindfolded volunters were hearing by analyzing activity in their visual cortexes. Christie Nicholson reports
Evolution
The Origins of Creativity
New evidence of ancient ingenuity forces scientists to reconsider when our ancestors started thinking outside the box
Evolution
Maya Angelou's Human Family
Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928–May 28, 2014) reading her poem "The Human Family"
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The Sciences
Cutthroat Trout Cross-Breeds to Survive
Is this the end of Montana's famed cutthroat trout in the face of invasive rainbow trout, stream temperature rise and flow changes?
Evolution
Tiny Kiwi and Giant Elephant Bird Are Close Cousins
A new genetic analysis shows that flightless birds, or ratites, did not evolve from a common flightless ancestor as had been previously thought
Evolution
Spider Fangs Are Perfect for Piercing
A structural study of spider fangs found that their curved, hollow design gives them the necessary strength for piercing and injecting their prey
The Sciences
ID’ing a Skull Just Got Easier
CT scans may soon link human remains to missing persons
In Honor of Linnaeus, a Rogue’s Gallery of New Species
Today is the birthday of one of my science heroes: Carl Linnaeus. Born on May 23, 1707, the Swede turned natural history from a hobby into a science with his masterful systemization and documentation of what had until then been haphazard classification of plants, animals and fungi...
Evolution
A DIY Fossil Hunting Activity for Pre-K Classrooms
The following project constitutes a half-hour activity for 3-, 4-, or 5-year olds. It includes the entire process from finding fossils to putting the recovered pieces together like a puzzle to drawing our best guess at what it looked like in life...
Evolution
My Testy Encounter with the Late, Great Gerald Edelman
Biologist Gerald Edelman–one of the truly great scientific characters I’ve encountered, whose work raised profound questions about the limits of science—has died.
