. Scientific Frontline: Evolutionary Biology
Showing posts with label Evolutionary Biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evolutionary Biology. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Self‑Replicating Circular RNA Persists in Extreme Environments: Insights from Hot Spring Microbiomes

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Photo Credit:  Amy Hamerly Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Self-Replicating Circular RNA in Extreme Environ...

World’s largest great ape cognition dataset offers new insights on human intelligence evolution

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Chimpanzees and bonobos are our closest living relatives, having diverged from a common ancestor with humans around six million years ago Ph...
Monday, April 20, 2026

Stone age population collapse revealed by DNA study in France

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The researchers have conducted DNA analyses of the skeletons from a burial sites in France and found traces of several different diseases. I...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

Trait choice and selection key to helping corals survive heatwaves

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One-year-old, pedigree-tracked corals growing in an ocean nursery. Photo Credit: Dr Liam Lachs Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Gla...
Friday, April 17, 2026

If birds are fancy dancers, are they smarter, too?

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A male zebra finch Photo Credit: Marie Barou-Dagues Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Avian Courtship Display...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Palaeontologists Discover New Long-Necked Dinosaur in Patagonia

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Bicharracosaurus vertebrae being prepared at the Egidio Feruglio Paleontological Museum in Trelew, Argentina Photo Credit: © Amalia Villafañ...

Elephant genomes reveal a past of continental connectivity and a future of increasing isolation

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Photo Credit: Laura Bertola Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : African Elephant Population Genomics The Core C...

What Is: Quorum Sensing

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Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Quorum Sensing The Core Concept : Quorum sensing is a sophisticated, popula...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Birds caught stealing from their neighbors

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ʻiʻiwi (Drepanis coccinea) Photo Credit:  HarmonyonPlanetEarth ( CC BY 2.0 ) Changes Made: Enlarged, enhanced detail, color adjusted Scienti...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

How Soil Microbes Adapt to Life in Lakes

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UZH researchers from the Limnological Station conducting microbial monitoring on Lake Zurich during a field campaign: Water samples are coll...
Monday, April 6, 2026

Spring cold snaps harm nesting tree swallows, but some show resilience

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Young tree swallows beg for food from a parent who is foraging nearby. Photo Credit: Maren Vitousek Scientific Frontline: Extended "At ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

What Is: Phytoplankton

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Phytoplankton The Core Concept : Phytopl...

Viruses ‘eavesdrop’ on each other – but it can backfire

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A colony of Bacillus subtilis grown on solid medium. These structured communities reflect how bacteria can organise & grow collectively....
Monday, March 30, 2026

Coral reef science must adapt for a chance to outpace climate change

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One of study authors monitoring corals they selectively bred for high heat tolerance at an ocean nursery in Palau. Photo Credit: Dr James Gu...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

What Is: Extremism

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Crowd of Trump extremists on the United States Capitol Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Scientific Frontline: Extended ...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Chimpanzees can be multitalented musicians

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Ayumu drumming while expressing his “play” face. Photo Credit: Yuko Hattori Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary :...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Cactus catalogue could help plant’s prickly problem

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Cacti can survive in the harshest environments, and yet almost a third of species are threatened with extinction. Photo Credit:  Haoli Chen ...

Prehistoric fish: coelacanths heard underwater using their lungs

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3D rendering of the skeleton of Graulia branchiodonta. The auditory organ includes the bony wings (red) on the ossified lung (white) which t...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Birds do it, bees do it … sip alcohol, that is

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An Anna’s hummingbird (Calypte anna) feeding on flowers of an Island Mallow (Malva assurgentiflora), which was one of the plant species incl...

Genomic Sequencing Pushes Canine Domestication into the Late Upper Palaeolithic

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Earliest Genetic Evidence of Domestic Do...