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Thursday, 09 April 2009 14:59 |
 French and Chinese blue glass, Dutch layered glass, Baltic amber: roughly 70,000 beads manufactured all over the world have been excavated at one of the Spanish empire's remotest outposts, the Santa Catalina de Guale Mission. |
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Thursday, 09 April 2009 14:44 |
 February's brutal chimpanzee attack, during which a pet chimp inflicted devastating injuries on a Connecticut woman, was a stark reminder that chimps are much stronger than humans—as much as four-times stronger, some researchers believe. But what is it that makes our closest primate cousins so much stronger than we are? One possible explanation is that great apes simply have more powerful muscles. |
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Tuesday, 07 April 2009 07:26 |
 One of the perplexing questions raised by evolutionary theory is how cooperative behavior, which benefits other members of a species at a cost to the individual, came to exist. |
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Friday, 03 April 2009 11:45 |
 Butterflies seem able to both attract mates and ward off predators using different sides of their wings, according to new research by Yale University biologists. |
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Thursday, 02 April 2009 16:04 |
 Aancient DNA can now be retrieved from various insect remains without destruction of the specimens. |
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Thursday, 02 April 2009 16:01 |
 Since the days of Charles Darwin, researchers are interested in reconstructing the "Tree of Life", and in understanding the development of animal and plant species during their evolutionary history. In the case of vertebrates, this research has already come quite a long way. |
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Thursday, 19 March 2009 23:20 |
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 The adage that dead men tell no tales has long been disproved by archaeology.
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009 21:07 |
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 Massive predators like Albertosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex may have been at the top of the food chain, but they were not the only meat-eating dinosaurs to roam North America, according to Canadian researchers who have discovered the smallest dinosaur species on the continent to date.
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009 18:36 |
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 Researchers have discovered that a long-defunct gene was resurrected during the course of human evolution. This is believed to be the first evidence of a doomed gene – infection-fighting human IRGM – making a comeback in the human/great ape lineage.
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Thursday, 09 April 2009 14:58 |
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The Earth's original atmosphere held very little oxygen. This began to change around 2.4 billion years ago when oxygen levels increased dramatically during what scientists call the "Great Oxidation Event." The cause of this event has puzzled scientists, but researchers writing in Nature have found indications in ancient sedimentary rocks that it may have been linked to a drop in the level of dissolved nickel in seawater. |
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Tuesday, 07 April 2009 09:08 |
 "Foot-shaped" structures have been revealed in the Jordan valley and are among the earliest sites that archeologists believe were built by the ancient people of Israel. The structures are thought to be symbolic of the biblical concept of ownership. |
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Tuesday, 07 April 2009 07:21 |
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 Killing just the older mosquitoes would be a more sustainable way of controlling malaria, according to entomologists who add that the approach may lead to evolution-proof insecticides that never become obsolete.
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Thursday, 02 April 2009 16:08 |
 The largest mass extinction in the history of the earth could have been triggered off by giant salt lakes, whose emissions of halogenated gases changed the atmospheric composition so dramatically that vegetation was irretrievably damaged. |
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Thursday, 02 April 2009 16:03 |
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Scientists have come to agree that different environments impact the evolution of new species. Now experiments conducted at the University of British Columbia are showing for the first time that the reverse is also true. |
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Wednesday, 01 April 2009 15:36 |
 Scientists at the University of Bath are working with the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust to study an endangered large shrew-like mammal that kills its prey with a venomous bite. |
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009 21:42 |
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 How do the many carnivorous animals of the Americas avoid competing for the same lunch, or becoming each other's meal?
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Thursday, 12 March 2009 22:39 |
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 Iconic ancient human fossils from China are 200,000 years older than had previously been thought, a study shows.
The new dating analysis suggests the "Peking Man" fossils, unearthed in the caves of Zhoukoudian are some 750,000 years old. |
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