News tagged with life history
Evolution is written all over your face
Why are the faces of primates so dramatically different from one another?
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Creating the Tree of Life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine the wealth of information that would be at our fingertips if we could understand the genetic basis and evolutionary history that underlies the vast diversity in form and function seen within mammals.
Dec 13, 2011 |
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New exhibition, website guide visitors through the evolving universe
The cosmos constantly changes. Stars are born, live out their lives, and die - sometimes calmly, sometimes explosively. Galaxies form, grow, and collide dramatically. A new exhibition and website, developed ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Whales in the desert: Fossil bonanza poses mystery
(AP) -- More than 2 million years ago, scores of whales congregating off the Pacific Coast of South America mysteriously met their end.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 19, 2011 |
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Pre-pregnancy overweight may program teen asthma symptoms
Mums who are overweight or obese when they become pregnant may be programming their children to have asthma-like respiratory symptoms during adolescence, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology an ...
Aug 16, 2011 |
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Dual-sex butterfly hatches at Natural History Museum
A rare half-male and half-female butterfly has emerged at the Natural History Museum's Sensational Butterflies exhibition.
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Study: Rare deep-sea starfish stuck in juvenile body plan
A team of scientists has combined embryological observations, genetic sequencing, and supercomputing to determine that a group of small disk-shaped animals that were once thought to represent a new class of ...
May 02, 2011 |
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Ancient Bible fragments reveal a forgotten history
New research has uncovered a forgotten chapter in the history of the Bible, offering a rare glimpse of Byzantine Jewish life and culture.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 28, 2010 |
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Attitude and adaptation keys to reaching 100 hundred years of age
University of Georgia research has provided new clues on surviving to be 100 years old, finding that how we feel about ourselves and our ability to adapt to an accumulation of challenging life experiences may be as or more ...
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Fossil find fills in picture of ancient marine life
Paleontologists have discovered a rich array of exceptionally preserved fossils of marine animals that lived between 480 million and 472 million years ago, during the early part of a period known as the Ordovician. ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 13, 2010 |
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