2+ hour, 46+ min ago   (83+ words) When the first fish lineage crawled onto land some 375 million years ago, its fins had to be remodeled into limbs capable of bearing weight. Evolutionary biologists have long focused on the genes that pattern the skeleton—Hox clusters, Sonic hedgehog,…...

1+ day, 12+ 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, 11+ hour ago   (319+ words) We take thousands of steps each day and we never think about the evolutionary and cultural advantage it represents. Humans naturally land with a heel-strike and the metabolic energy savings were as much as 41 percent, which made traveling farther possible,…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (273+ words) Research in the museum The museum’s development into the 21st century Wednesday, 09. September 2026 / 13:02 Over the past 100 years, mammalogy has undergone a fundamental transformation: what was once a predominantly descriptive discipline has evolved into a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary field of research, the findings…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (282+ words) New research published in Nature Communications shows Tasmanian tigers had a skull and jaw structure unlike any living carnivorous mammal, suited to catching small, rabbit-size prey rather than livestock. Led by Dr. Vera Weisbecker of Flinders University, the study found…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (137+ words) Nature Ecology & Evolution (2026) Cite this article A comparative multi-omic study finds that family-biased repertoires of short regulatory DNA motifs remain conserved over greater evolutionary distances than do the motif sets and co-occurring motif pairs associated with individual cell types. Arendt,…...

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5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (50+ words) insects Bioengineer.org Subject of Research: Classification and phylogenetic placement of Mesozoic fossil Zoraptera (angel insects) based on male genitalia, leg, and wing venation morphology Article Title: Morphology of male genitalia, legs, and wing venation reveals the classification of Mesozoic…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (382+ words) Scientists believe a massive release of fossilized animal poop may have helped trigger the explosion of complex life on our planet. Save your scatological jokes as you read this next story. We've got enough poop puns in it already. Scientists…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1223+ words) A millimetre-long salmon parasite called Henneguya salminicola has no mitochondrial genome and cannot use oxygen — the first multicellular animal ever confirmed to live its entire life cycle without breathing. By Life Signs · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 7, 2026 · How we…...