4+ hour, 14+ min ago   (722+ words) Newswise — Anthropology Professor and Department Chair Britney Kyle, Ph.D., spent her sabbatical sharing her expertise in examining human skeletons with students and faculty from the University of Prishtina in Kosovo, a country in Southeast Europe. During a five-week partnership…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (790+ words) Newswise — COLUMBUS, Ohio – New research suggests that no matter what we eventually determine the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees to be, we’ll learn it was a primate that climbed trees. Humans and chimpanzees began their separate evolutionary paths…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (206+ words) To study the rare fossils without damaging them, the researchers used micro-X-ray fluorescence scanning to map chemical elements across the surface of the bones. The scans revealed clear differences in the chemical composition of bones from different geological periods. Older…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (461+ words) A painted turtle hatchling at the Iowa State University Horticulture Research Station is on the left. The grayish hatchling on the right is a spiny softshell turtle in Nicole Valenzuela's laboratory. Newswise — AMES, Iowa — When most baby turtles hatch, their…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (338+ words) Florida State University researchers are part of an international team whose work reveals that North and South American mammals interacted before the Panamanian land bridge formed about 3 million years ago. North and South America were once isolated continents home to…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (761+ words) Ancient single-celled red algae that thrive in scalding, acidic waters are emerging as far more than specialized survivors. Research by Rutgers evolutionary biologist Debashish Bhattacharya and his collaborators show that the organisms, known as Cyanidiophyceae, form the foundation of entire…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (373+ words) These CT scan images show a comparison of a hatchling Chinese alligator (above) and an American alligator (below). The images illustrate the subtle species-specific differences between the two animals that are present throughout their lifespans. Napoli’s research revealed that both…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (675+ words) COLUMBUS, Ohio – Within every muscle of every living species with a backbone, a protein called myosin tugs on a partner protein to generate a muscle contraction. This function, discovered in mammals a century ago, has been presumed by scientists to…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (669+ words) | Newswise Newswise Tiny ancient fish fossil with preserved brain offers clues to early fish evolution Over 300 million years ago, a minnow-sized fish died and fell to the bottom of the prehistoric swamp near the village of Trawden, Lancashire, in northwest…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (503+ words) Modeled global temperature changes in degrees Fahrenheit from the combined effects of metamorphic carbon and sulfur emissions over several millennia. Red shading indicates net warming and blue shading net cooling. The garnet dashed line indicates the warming that would result…...