Scientists have discovered reproduction in some of the earliest complex organisms. It was through a strange method. Rangeomorphs existed 565 million years ago. They made copies of themselves using a...
A paleontologist’s duty is the broad field of natural history. A man or a woman with khaki clothes who is down in the dust brushing away the debris from fossils is the common image that is conjured...
Paul Ehrlich, the Bing Professor of Population Studies in biology and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment along with his fellow researchers have declared that the...
A new study into the DNA of Bronze age (about 5,000 - 3,000 years ago) reveals stunning new insights in how modern Europe and Central Asia has formed. Was it a massive migration? Or was it rather a...
Cope’s Rule has it that animals tend to evolve towards larger frames. Mapping the law lines of evolutionary science is tough business. The processes Nature follows are rather messy and Nature does...
The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center has informed over 100 patients that they are at risk of having been infected with an antibiotics resistant bug. During endoscopic procedures that took place...
With all the recent attention given to the debate over evolution and creationism, you’d never know that a much more interesting debate has been going on for decades amongst evolutionary biologists....
The eternal chicken or egg question — did Mars seed life on earth or did earth seed life on the Red Planet? — is utter astrobiological “nonsense.” Or so says Pascale Ehrenfreund, an astrochemist at...