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The early Cretaceous Period, around 130 million years ago, witnessed a flourishing of biodiversity that allowed for the rise ...

An artificial intelligence model has created a new protein that researchers say would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature — if nature were capable of producing such a thing. How did ...

Jan. 24, 2025 — Researchers firmly point the finger at the South American Andes Mountains as the place where the Irish potato famine pathogen, Phtytophthora infestans, ...

BUCHAREST, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Romanian artefacts, including a 2,500-year-old gold helmet, were stolen from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands early on Saturday, the museum said. The Geto-Dacian ...

Modern oceans, for comparison, max out at trophic level five or six, represented by apex predators like orcas, sperm whales, ...

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

Jan. 29, 2025 — Researchers have identified priority areas for conserving the black-tailed prairie dog in the United States. Protecting these regions will also benefit North America's Central ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.

Researchers describe the region as “the most attractive land for prehistoric settlement anywhere in the continent.” Today, this land largely makes up the coastal shelf that is currently under ...

Prehistoric Whale Jaw Bone Sheds Light on the Evolution of Baleen Hidden in a museums’ collections for years, a fossil provides a link between past and present feeding mechanisms November 29, 2018 ...