Natural History
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3.1KTo establish a timescale for more than 10 million years ago
The timescale is the base to reconstruct the history of the Earth and the biological evolution. A research on a chronostratigraphic sequence...
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5.8KCritically endangered South American forests were man made
Critically endangered South American forests thought to be the result of climate change were actually spread by ancient communities, archaeologists have found.
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2.9KResearchers uncover genomic info linking extinct giant ground sloth to modern species
Researchers have uncovered important genomic data from the remains of an ancient giant ground sloth, or Mylodon darwinii, the emblematic creature named after...
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2.2K100-million-year-old liverwort mimicry in insects
Camouflage and mimicry are pervasive throughout the biological world as part of the usual interactions between predators and their prey, allowing both...
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3.0KUnprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to ancient humans
Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and other recent human relatives may have begun hunting large mammal species down to size - by way of...
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11.6KIron Age breeding practices likely influenced lack of stallion lineages in modern horses
Selective breeding just before and during the Iron Age nearly 3,000 years ago is likely the reason for the lack of variability...
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2.7KMadrid has one of the greatest concentrations of sites with remains of elephants and mammoths in Europe
Researchers from the CENIEH have participated in a paper published in the journal Quaternary International which brings out the importance of the...
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5.1KThe ban of the cave bear
At 3.5 meters long and with a shoulder height of 1.7 meters, the cave bear was one of the giants of the...
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4.3KBlue whale genome reveals the animals’ extraordinary evolutionary history
For the first time, scientists of the German Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, Goethe University and the University of Lund in...
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5.4KThe absence of ants — entomologist confirms first Saharan farming 10,000 years ago
BY analysing a prehistoric site in the Libyan desert, a team of researchers from the universities of Huddersfield, Rome and Modena &...
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4.5KMammals share mechanisms controlling the heart with a 400 million-year-old fish
Primitive air-breathing fish, whose direct ancestors first appeared around 400 million years ago, show mechanisms controlling the heart which were previously considered...
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11.1KAncient trail of Columbian mammoths uncovered in south-central Oregon
A fossilized trackway on public lands in Lake County, Oregon, may reveal clues about the ancient family dynamics of Columbian mammoths.
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6.8KWhat fluffy bunnies can tell us about domestication: It didn’t go the way you think
It turns out that nobody knows when rabbits were domesticated. Despite a well-cited story of the domestic bunny's origins, a review published...
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11.6KOrigins of domestic turkeys in Mayan and Aztec culture
An international team of researchers from the University of York, the Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico, Washington State University and...
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10.2KIberian Brown Bears not descended from fleeing ice age bears
Initial theories on glacier refuges suggested that after the conclusion of the glaciations during the ice age, bears from northern Europe fled...
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3.9KCooling climate drove evolution of the Tasmanian Devil and its relatives
A BIG drop in global temperatures 12-14 million years ago may explain the evolutionary success of Australia’s unique marsupial carnivores, a new...
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2.7KEvolution: In the beginning there was the sponge
Which group of animals evolved first? This problem has become a bone of contention among biologists. An international research team is now...
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4.5KA sub-desert savanna spread across Madrid 14 million years ago
The Central Iberian Peninsula was characterised by a very arid savanna during the middle Miocene, according to a study led by the...
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