The Galapagos cormorant last shared a common ancestor with flighted cormorants two million years ago, which is an incredibly short time in evolutionary terms. For comparison, ...

The Galapagos cormorant, with its short, scraggly wings, is the only one of 40 cormorant species that cannot fly. It is also the largest of the cormorants, and a strong swimmer that dives for its ...

新的研究指出，有若干基因可能与加拉帕戈斯鸬鹚（Galapagos cormorant）丧失飞行能力有关。有趣的是，这些基因与人类的某些骨病相关基因类似。丧失 ...

The Galapagos cormorant, with its short, scraggly wings, is the only one of 40 cormorant species that cannot fly. It is also the largest of the cormorants, and a strong swimmer that dives for its ...

The Galapagos cormorant, with its short, scraggly wings, is the only one of 40 cormorant species that cannot fly. It is also the largest of the cormorants, ...

The Galapagos cormorant has a single mutation in a part of the gene that is always the same in other species. The ideal experiment would be to alter the same gene in another species of cormorant ...

In 1835, the Galapagos Islands shaped the thoughts of a young British naturalist named Charles Darwin, and helped inspire his world-shaking theory of evolution. For that reason, the islands have ...

Perhaps the most logical explanation to date for the Galapagos Cormorant losing its ability to fly has to do with its isolation in the middle of nowhere. Here, the creature doesn’t have to have to ...

That finding indicates the Galápagos cormorant’s altered form of CUX1 might also make wings smaller because it fails to turn on limb growth genes. Science News sponsorship position.

A. Burga et al. Loss of flight in the Galapagos cormorant mirrors human skeletal ciliopathies. bioRxiv.org. Posted July 2, 2016. doi: 10.1101/061432. About Tina Hesman Saey E-mail ...