8+ hour, 41+ min ago   (671+ words) When the tide recedes from a rocky Mediterranean shore, the mussels clinging to the stones simply close their shells and wait. Inside those shells, oxygen levels plummet, carbon dioxide accumulates, and the entire body shifts into a biochemical holding pattern…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (267+ words) New research from the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo suggests ichthyosaurs’ rib cages may have done a job modern whale ribs don’t: acting as ballast to help them dive....

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (643+ words) Sedimentation is more important than other factors in the 'time averaging' of marine fossils The investigators analysed more than 7,500 fossils, which were collected from a variety of oceanic environments around the world ANSTO has contributed to a large international study…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (691+ words) Note: This article was originally published 30 years ago, on Aug. 7, 1996. Brian Barnes and author Ned Rozell have since retired from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and scientists now know that the wood frog’s internal body temperature can dip to 0.6 degrees…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (279+ words) The article begins this way: New genetics research—entirely based on evolutionary assumptions and interpretations of genomes—now places LUCA “astonishingly early” in earth’s history. That’s surprising in the evolutionary view, given how complex life is and how uninhabitable early…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (890+ words) Universität Bern Evolutionary home advantage: Study reveals adaptation to be surprisingly local A research team from the University of Bern has shown in a large-scale field experiment that populations of the same fish species can be much more fine-tuned to…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (599+ words) Teeth from two skeletons on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi push back the origin of habitual drug use to 25,000 years ago — long before agriculture, and well before the world's oldest known beer. These hunter-gatherers weren't chewing anything. They were sucking…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (119+ words) Using a new computational toolkit, Yale researchers recovered evolutionary clues from highly degraded DNA and identified two extinct lineages of giant tortoises....

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (394+ words) In reality, these aren’t just lumps of snow. Such formations consist of several layers that twist around one another. The snow inside often remains loose, so over time, some of it may simply blow out. Because of this, a hole…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (12+ words) Phys.org...