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Scientists Identify Likely Origins of Vertebrate Air Breathing
University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have identified what they think is the ancestral trait that allowed for the evolution...
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How First Life Forms Might Have Packaged RNA
Researchers at Penn State University have developed a chemical model that mimics a possible step in the formation of...
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Fly Genomes Show Natural Selection
When ancestral humans walked out of Africa tens of thousands of years ago, Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies came along...
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Spineless Critter Had Oldest Complex Brain
A 520-million-year-old, three-inch fossil has yielded evidence that complex brains evolved much earlier than previously thought. The preserved external...
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New Theory of Early Animal Evolution
A New York Medical College developmental biologist whose life’s work has supported the theory of evolution has developed a...
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Large Water Reservoirs at the Dawn of Stellar Birth
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapor to fill Earth’s oceans more than 2000 times over, in...
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Slime Has Memory but No Brain
The living slime that may have been the muse for the 1958 science-fiction film The Blob just got creepier:...
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100-Million-Year-Old Spider Attack Found Fossilized in Amber
Researchers have found what they say is the only fossil ever discovered of a spider attack on prey caught...
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Insects a Prime Driver in Plant Evolution and Diversity
Take a good look around on your next nature hike. Not only are you experiencing the wonders of the...
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Curiosity Set to Scoop Sand Sample That Could Reveal Ancient Life
NASA’s Curiosity rover is getting ready to take its first scoop of Martian soil. The analysis of the soil...