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A new reconstruction of the 375-million-year-old fossil fish Tiktaalik, a close relative of limbed vertebrates, utilizes micro-CT to uncover bones that remained trapped in matrix.…

Researchers explain the genomic and developmental origins of the patagium, a thin skin membrane that permits some mammalian species to fly through the air. People…

Palaeontologists at Flinders University have described three strange new species of huge fossil kangaroos from Australia and New Guinea, revealing that they are more diversified…

The fossilized remnants of a second massive jawbone measuring more than two meters long were discovered on a beach in Somerset, UK. Experts have recognized…

A new study has revealed the precise protein structure of the TAS2R14, a bitter taste receptor that allows us to sense bitter tastes. In addition…

A new study sponsored by the University of Oxford and MIT has recovered a 3.7-billion-year-old record of Earth’s magnetic field, which looks to be quite…

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Aalborg University in Denmark discovered that…

Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have answered a century-old riddle about how some fossil frogs keep their fleshy parts: it’s all down…

Researchers at Osaka University discovered that liver resident macrophages play an important role in protecting against gut bacteria and associated chemicals entering the portal vein,…

Genetic data suggests that the acoustic fat masses in toothed whales’ heads were formerly jaw muscles and bone marrow. Dolphins and whales utilize sounds to…

The origins of life are shrouded in mystery. While the complicated dynamics of mitosis are well understood in somatic cells (specialized cells such as skin…

A thorough investigation of macroalgae genetics has shown the genetic foundations that allowed macroalgae, or “seaweed,” to evolve multicellularity. Researchers in the journal Molecular Plant…