Last Updated: Sunday, November 3, 2013, 15:41
Indian-origin paleontologist, Dr. Sankar Chatterjee, believes that he has found the answer to the question about how life on Earth began more than 3.8 billion years ago.
Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2013, 10:06
Thanks to evolution, hungry desert-dwelling wild mice can shrug off the pain of scorpions` stings in order to gobble them up for a meal, scientists said Thursday.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 12:52
A new study suggests that no known hominin is ancestor to the Neanderthals or modern humans.
Last Updated: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 11:32
A Danish/Swedish/French research team has shown that the oxygen content on Earth, 2.1 billion years ago, was probably same as it was during the so-called Cambrian explosion, 500 million years ago.
Last Updated: Friday, October 18, 2013, 12:36
A new study has shown for the first time how two tiny molecules regulate a gene implicated in speech and language impairments as well as autism disorders.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 3, 2013, 12:22
The dramatic explosion of flowering plant species about 100 million years ago could have led to the decline of the early mammal varieties, a new study has suggested.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 15:34
Deep Lake, which became isolated from the ocean 3,500 years ago by the Antarctic continent rising, have provided scientists a unique niche for studying the evolution of the microbes.
Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 08:38
The ancestor of all creatures with jaws and a backbone was not a sleek, shark-like beast but a toothless, armoured fish, said a study Wednesday that rewrites man`s evolutionary history.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 15:09
The dispersal and expansion of Neolithic culture from the Middle East has recently been associated with the distribution of human genetic markers.
Last Updated: Monday, September 23, 2013, 16:18
A common songbird may have acquired genes from fellow migrating birds in order to travel greater distances, according to a new study.
Last Updated: Monday, September 23, 2013, 15:56
One of the world`s oldest and most distinctive songbird species might be coming back from the brink of extinction thanks to a relocation project.
Last Updated: Sunday, September 22, 2013, 16:20
One hundred years after the death of Sir Alfred Russel Wallace, an international team of zoologists has discovered a new genus of mammal in the Halmahera Island in Indonesia.
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