Some flowers may have evolved long stems to be better ‘seen’ by bats
A tailed tailless bat drinking nectar from a flowerNathan Muchhala Some flowers may have evolved long stems to make it easier for echolocating bats to find them. Like insects and…
A tailed tailless bat drinking nectar from a flowerNathan Muchhala Some flowers may have evolved long stems to make it easier for echolocating bats to find them. Like insects and…
Smaller pterosaurs may have flapped their wings while larger ones soaredTerryl Whitlatch Despite living hundreds of millions of years apart, pterosaurs may be more similar to modern-day birds than previously…
The common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) actually has fewer teeth than most batsMichael & Patricia Fogden/Minden Pictures/Alamy BiteBill Schutt (Algonquin Books) Our evolutionary history bears the bite marks of our teeth.…
When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment at the Hadar fossil site in Ethiopia in 1974, he knew it was an extraordinary find, but little did he know just…
Krusatodon kirtlingtonensis, a small mammal that lived during the Jurassic PeriodMaija Karala In the middle of the Jurassic Period, small mammals had much longer lives than their modern counterparts, and…
Chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest in UgandaCatherine Hobaiter Chimpanzees trade gestures at a rapid pace when socialising, similar to the rate at which humans engage in a back-and-forth conversation. Researchers…
Those living in Papua New Guinea’s highlands may benefit from having Denisovan DNAMichael Runkel/Danita Delimont/Getty Images/Gallo Images ROOTS People living in the highlands and lowlands of Papua New Guinea have…
An illustration showing how LUCA may have been attacked by virusesScience Graphic Design The organism that gave rise to all life present on Earth may have evolved much earlier than…
Snippets of self-replicating code compete for space in a virtual environmentGoogle A self-replicating form of artificial life has arisen from a digital “primordial soup” of random data, despite a lack…
Dingoes are found across most of the Australian continentDominic Jeanmaire/Getty Images/iStockphoto Analysis of ancient DNA from dingoes suggests that Australia’s native wild dogs arrived in two waves of migration between…