Tag: Evolution

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  How Biophilia Can Improve Our Lives - Part I

  Biophlia is showing us that loving nature is deeper than our emotions, it's genetic.

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  Did Mercury Cause "The Mother of All Extinctions" During Permian Period?

  Scientists find another stressor contributing to the massive extinctions that killed almost all marine life and the majority of life on land.

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  How Fibonacci Numbers are Expressed in Nature (Video)

  You just might never look at a pinecone the same way again.

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  World's First Hybrid Sharks Discovered Near Australia

  For the first time ever, researchers have detected not one, not two, but 57 hybrid sharks lurking off the the coast of Australia.

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  Animal Tickle Tests Shed Light on the Origins of Laughter

  According to the BBC, researchers in the UK have essentially invented for themselves what might be the greatest job in the world: ticklin' for science.

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  Scientist Seals Himself in Box to Prove Importance of Plants

  Gasp: what some people will do in the name of science. Dr. Iain Stewart, a famous geologist, is going to be sealed into an air-tight lucite box for 48 hours.

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  Largest Mass of Water Discovered

  Astronomers have discovered the largest mass of water known to exist. So we humans can go right on mucking up our frail planet's meager reserves of fresh water, we know where to find plenty more? But wait, there's a

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  Tiny Snails Live On After Being Eaten By Birds

  Photo: iJammin / cc In nature, survival of the fittest usually means being fast or stealthy enough to avoid getting eaten -- but with those two options off the table, one species of tiny snail has found another way to cope. Scientists in Japan have

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  Species Placed in Simulator of Earth's Future Climate

  If the projections of countless scientists are correct, the climate of this planet will be markedly different by the end of this century -- but for a group of plants and animals, that future is now. A team of biologists have

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  Hubble Hits a Milestone - NASA Celebrates Millionth Space Observation

  If good design means longevity, Hubble is well on its way to redeeming the missteps that required high-tech space missions for vision correction before it could serve its purpose. Could it be a coinicidence that Hubble

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  1 in 8 People That Have Ever Lived Are Alive Today

  Earth is in the midst of a population crisis, and extremes are heading in both directions. While countless species have seen their numbers plummet in recent decades, with more than a few going extinct entirely, humans have

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  Human Activity is Causing Wildlife to Shrink

  In a world increasingly dominated by humans, it seems there's less and less room for just about everything else -- so to cope, animals and plants across the globe are gradually getting smaller. For centuries, human activities

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  Men and Women are Different, Even If Doing the Same Job

  News Flash! Men and Women are different. OK, have a chuckle, we know there are plenty of studies that prove men are from Mars and women from Venus. And just as many policy papers

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  Chinese Army to Enlist 10,000 Pigeons, Just in Case

  From their humble beginnings along the rocky cliff sides of Africa and Asia some 20 million years ago, pigeons can now by found pretty much anywhere there´s a statue being erected or sandwich being eaten -- though long

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  Years After Mating, Stingrays Finally Give Birth (Video)

  The marine biologists at Australia's Oceanworld Manly aquarium may be well-versed in the facts of life, but it's never too late to learn a bit more about how exactly babies are made. Recently, twelve healthy baby stingrays were

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  Earth Will be "Unrecognizable" by 2050

  A lot has changed in the last 40 years, hasn't it? From the rise of personal computers and the Internet, to tubeless toilet-paper and carnivorous clocks -- the world today hardly resembles the one seen in faded photos of people with

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  Island's Invasive "Killing Machine" Finally Captured

  The tiny island of Kapiti, located five miles off the coast of Wellington, New Zealand, is one of the last refuges for a menagerie of wildlife driven to near-extinction elsewhere by invasive species. Since the late 1980s, when all

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  Big Squirreltail Evolves to Fight Off Fiery, Invasive Cheatgrass

  Nicknaming plants. Now there's a good job to have. The invasive plant in this tale, called "cheatgrass," is being fought off by a native