“Ants reduce per-worker investment in one of the most nutritionally expensive tissues for the good of the collective,” Matte explains. […]
Tag: evolution
Humans in southern Africa were an isolated population until recently
Collectively, the genetic variants in this population are outside the range of previously described human diversity. That’s despite the fact […]
AI trained on bacterial genomes produces never-before-seen proteins
The researchers argue that this setup lets Evo “link nucleotide-level patterns to kilobase-scale genomic context.” In other words, if you […]
Dinosaurs may have flourished right up to when the asteroid hit
That seemingly changes as of now, with new argon dating of strata from the Naashoibito Member in the San Juan […]
Genetically, Central American mammoths were weird
Skip to content The species’s boundaries in North America seem to have been fairly fluid. We tend to lump all […]
New dinosaur species is the punk rock version of an ankylosaur
And we have known for sure that the armor was around back then, given that we’ve found the skin-derived osteoderms […]
Mammals that chose ants and termites as food almost never go back
Insects are more influential than we realize By showing that ant- and termite-based diets evolved repeatedly, the study highlights the […]
Carnivorous crocodile-like monsters used to terrorize the Caribbean
How did reptilian things that looked something like crocodiles get to the Caribbean islands from South America millions of years […]
Some flies go insomniac to ward off parasites
Those genes associated with metabolism were upregulated, meaning they showed an increase in activity. An observed loss of body fat […]
Newly hatched hummingbird looks, acts like a toxic caterpillar
Skip to content “Batesian mimicry” is when a species evolves to look like one that’s inedible. The adult white-necked jacobin […]