Chimpanzee’s Drum Solo Offers Clues to Origins of Music
Researchers who analyzed dozens of spontaneous performances by a captive male chimpanzee named Ayumu say the animal’s steady…
dissecting the body’s battle to keep selfish genes in check
The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict J. Arvid Ågren and Manus M. Patten (eds) Harvard…
Early Miocene Fossil Fills Gap in Ape Family Tree
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of fossil ape that lived about 17-18 million years ago…
No such thing as a shark? Genomes shake up ocean predator’s family tree
This great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is still a shark. Credit: Dave Fleetham/Design Pics Editorial/UIG via Getty In…
High-throughput phenomics of global ant biodiversity
Meineke, E. K., Davies, T. J., Daru, B. H. & Davis, C. C. Biological collections for understanding biodiversity…
Rare Fossils in Amber Raise Questions About Secret Lives of Cretaceous Insects
Amber in Case 6 – Credit: Dr Jose de la Fuente / Institute for Game and Wildlife Research…
Why Don’t Humans Have A Mating Season? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains
Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution rewired our reproduction by…
Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science
Pokémon has been an inspiration for researchers since its creation 30 years ago.Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty On 27 February…
Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate
A full description of the methods is provided in the Supplementary Information. All dilution percentages are v/v unless…
‘Extremely rare’ fossilized anus discovered after 300-million-years
It’s a tail as old as time. Scientists may have discovered the world’s oldest butthole after unearthing the…