[ad_1] Fossilized dental crowns contain a lot of information about past climates and life events. Credit: Tanya M Smith, Author Provided Increasing variation in climate has been implicated as a possible factor …
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[ad_1] It might be tempting to imagine our ancient ancestors as simply less sophisticated versions of ourselves, but scientists know that there are some very big differences between modern humans and the …
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[ad_1] An international team of scientists has completed the first 3D virtual reconstruction of a Neanderthal rib cage. Researchers from Spanish, Israeli and American universities have digitized fossils of a 60,000-year-old male …
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[ad_1] Scripps Research scientists and their collaborators have created microorganisms that can summarize the main features of organisms thought to have lived billions of years ago, allowing them to explore questions about …
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[ad_1] Image Source: The Scripps Research Institute By conducting a study on one of the modified organisms, a unicellular organism lacking organelles and nuclei, called bacterium, whose genome is composed of both …
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[ad_1] A genetically modified yeast containing an endosymbiotic bacterium. Credit: Scripps Research Scientists at Scripps Research and their collaborators have created microorganisms that may recapitulate key features of organisms thought to have …
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[ad_1] In this archive photo from April 16, 2015, a cocoa pod is hanging from a tree of the Agropampatar chocolate cooperative in El Clavo, Venezuela. (Photo AP / Fernando Llano) (Associated …
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[ad_1] You walk, talk and live on earth, but your former parents were fish. It took about 480 million years for these fish to evolve and adapt to different environments and become …
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[ad_1] Nobumichi Tamura "> A member of a rare group of 410 million-year-old Australian jawless fish meets a mate along the shore (artist's print). Credit: Nobumichi Tamura You walk, talk and live …
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[ad_1] One of the newly discovered spearheads allegedly created and used by pre-Clovis peoples in the Americas. Researchers believe that these weapons are the oldest discoveries in North America. ( Texas A …
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