News tagged with animal evolution
Research team finds first evolutionary branching for bilateral animals
Sep 23, 2009 |
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When it comes to understanding a critical junction in animal evolution, some short, simple flatworms have been a real thorn in scientists' sides. Specialists have jousted over the proper taxonomic placement ...
Earliest animals lived in a lake environment, research shows
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Evidence for life on Earth stretches back billions of years, with simple single-celled organisms like bacteria dominating the record. When multi-celled animal life appeared on the planet after 3 billion years ...
Move over, sponges: New evidence confirms Placozoans are the closest living surrogate to the ancestor of all animals
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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A new and comprehensive analysis confirms that the evolutionary relationships among animals are not as simple as previously thought. The traditional idea that animal evolution has followed a trajectory from ...
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Scientists develop resource to study animal aging
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Feb 17, 2009 |
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A database detailing the life history of more than 4,000 animal species has been developed by scientists at the University of Liverpool for study in areas such as ageing, evolution and conservation.
Researchers break the animal kingdom's colour code
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Charles Darwin was fascinated by the colours of animals - he once wrote to his colleague Alfred Russell Wallace asking why certain animals were "so
beautifully and artistically coloured".
Ancient oceans offer new insight into the origins of animal life
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Analysis of a rock type found only in the world's oldest oceans has shed new light on how large animals first got a foothold on the Earth.
Unifying The Animate And The Inanimate Designs Of Nature
Apr 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Living beings and inanimate phenomena may have more in common than previously thought.
Fossil evidence of missing link in the origin of seals, sea lions, walruses found in Canadian Arctic
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the United States and Canada have found a fossil skeleton of a newly discovered carnivorous animal, Puijila darwini. New research suggests Puijila is a "missing link" in the ...
Pigs learn to understand mirrors
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of domesticated pigs has found that with just a little experimentation they can find food based only on a reflection in a mirror.
Looking different 'helps animals to survive'
Jul 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the animal kingdom, everything is not as it seems. Individuals of the same species can look very different from each other - what biologists term 'polymorphism.'
Canadian scientist aims to turn chickens into dinosaurs
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 25, 2009 |
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After years spent hunting for the buried remains of prehistoric animals, a Canadian paleontologist now plans to manipulate chicken embryos to show he can create a dinosaur.
Research team establishes family tree for cattle, other ruminants
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Pairing a new approach to prepare ancient DNA with a new scientific technique developed specifically to genotype a cow, an MU animal scientist, along with a team of international researchers, created a very ...
X-rays used to reveal secrets of famous fossil
Feb 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- About 150 million years ago, an evolutionarily hybrid creature, a dinosaur on its way to becoming a bird, died in what is now Germany, and become fossilized in limestone.
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