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Where crocodiles are family: Inside a Nubian village in Egypt
2+ hour, 2+ min ago A crocodile hatchling is crawling on my shirt making its way to my head. Seven-year-old Ali Mustafa nimbly picks up the reptile. He grins, rather mischievously. A few yards away, inside a well, the mother " a crocodile much bigger in…...
Scientists solve mystery of prehistoric 'Burtele Foot"
3+ week, 19+ hour ago Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele Foot" discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic human ancestor that lived alongside another closely related species during a poorly understood time in human evolution. Based…...
Science for All | New atlas reveals tiled bodies are common across life on earth
1+ mon, 2+ day ago Updated - November 20, 2025 12:14 pm IST Biologists and designers have long been fascinated by repeating patterns in nature, from spirals in shells to honeycombs in bees" nests. However, they have paid the most attention to patterns called "cellular foams" seen in bone…...
CCMB’s LaCONES joins global effort to decode Gibbon genomes
1+ mon, 1+ week ago Published - November 10, 2025 06:52 pm IST - HYDERABAD- A groundbreaking global study on gibbon genomes has revealed that the deletion of a specific 205-base pair (bp) sequence in the Sonic Hedgehog gene is responsible for the gibbons" iconic elongated limbs " perfectly adapted for…...
Humans have fingers because fish needed cloaca
2+ mon, 2+ week ago Updated - October 01, 2025 02:13 pm IST This similarity has been a puzzle " and one a new paper in Nature has answered. Scientists from France, Switzerland, and the US have reported that one of humans" most defining features is built on an ancient…...
Ancient humans evolved to walk on two legs in two steps
3+ mon, 3+ week ago Discovering the hidden steps in human pelvis development through embryonic research, shedding light on bipedal evolution mysteries....
Ice Age’s winged relic rediscovered in Western Ghats
3+ mon, 3+ week ago Published - August 29, 2025 08:14 pm IST - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Odanatologists have reconfirmed the presence of the elusive dragonfly species, Crocothemis erythraea, in the high-elevation regions of the southern Western Ghats. The species had previously been misidentified or overlooked in this region due to its…...
Like bronze idols, India’s dino egg fossils risk being sold abroad
3+ mon, 3+ week ago Published - August 26, 2025 05:30 am IST - Chennai In Western India, some of the country's richest fossil beds lie inside open coal mines. It is gruelling work for palaeontologists with long days under a haze of dust, the deafening hammering of tools, and…...
Young anacondas use surprising S-shaped gait to make quick escapes
4+ mon, 3+ day ago Published - August 19, 2025 06:00 am IST - Bengaluru A peculiar and previously unreported manoeuvre by yellow anacondas has now slithered its way into the attention of physicists " a transient, non-planar movement young snakes adopt to move forward rapidly when threatened. The starting point…...
In a first, enamel proteins 18-20 million years old from tropical, High Arctic sites unravel palaeobiology of extinct taxa
5+ mon, 1+ week ago Updated - July 09, 2025 09:23 pm IST - CHENNAI One study'is of enamel proteins from extinct mammal fossils from the Turkana Basin in Kenya, and the'other study'is of enamel proteins from extinct mammals in the Haughton impact crater site located on Devon Island, Nunavut…...