2+ hour, 43+ 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....

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4+ day, 10+ 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,…...

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, 16+ hour ago   (67+ words) This might be the easiest one ever. Yes! This easy practice is much appreciated by a guy who can never find Waldo in these exercises. I promise that I didn’t mean that as a complaint–just an observation. Having a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (503+ words) This paper contains the imaginative storytelling, speculative leaps, and inflated claims that have become staples of the origin-of-life literature. Source In my previous article, I describe how a recent paper proposing chemical pathways to life’s origin recycles failed models and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (653+ words) Deep in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest, what appears to be an ordinary aspen grove is actually a single enormous organism. Known as Pando, the sprawling colony of quaking aspens is connected by one underground root system and is widely regarded…...