Medicine & TechnologyEvolutionary psychology holds that adaptation and natural selection may have played a role in how certain abilities and behaviors were passed down. Read to learn more.
New research suggests that most of our evolutionary trees are
misleading, and that convergent evolution might be more common than previously thought. Find out more about it in this article.
The dinosaurs had aerated vertebrae bones that enhanced their strength and reduced their weight. Read the article to know how adaptation played at work in their dominion before extinction.
Research found cavefish survive a low-oxygen environment. Read on and find out if other species can endure the same environment uninterrupted for long periods.
A new study reveals how warmer global climates could create more serious mutations that have worse effects on organisms, affecting their prospects for survival in the future.
Because of climate change and its effects on the present environmental conditions, changes can be observed in the distribution of phenotypic traits or the observable and measurable trait of an individual. Finding answers as to how these mechanisms are responsible for the changes has proven to be difficult.
Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered that the octopus, uniquely adept with camouflage, can "see" with its skin. The study found that the California two-spot octopus can sense light using light-sensitive proteins, similar to those found in eyes, in its skin.
This week scientists discovered the first known warm-blooded fish; except that this fish was already well-known to humans. The comically appointed opah, a large silver and red fish that is large, circular, and flat, has been making appearances in fishing nets off the coast of west Africa and Hawaii for years.