The Plants that Eat Animals

The Plants that Eat Animals Santa Barbara Independent - Santa Barbara,CA,USA Plant carnivory is such a successful strategy that it probably evolved about six times, creating widespread genera and families by the beginning of the ...

 

Unraveling Numerical Ability in Humans: From Infancy to Adulthood

Unraveling Numerical Ability in Humans: From Infancy to Adulthood
AScribe (press release) - USA
Though research indicates that we are born with this sense (scientists contend that it probably evolved very early, to help animals and our human ancestors...

Eyespan size matters

Eyespan size matters Planet Earth - Swindon,Wiltshire,UK In stalk-eyed flies the order may be the reverse: 'our findings indicate that large eyespan probably evolved as a response to female preference and then ...

Constant complaining sends out all the wrong signals

Constant complaining sends out all the wrong signals The Nationalist - Carlow,Ireland The first being that some boffins claim that the human desire to complain probably evolved when our ancestors cried out a warning when something threatened ...

How to Build Intimacy in Your Relationship

How to Build Intimacy in Your Relationship
Oprah.com - Chicago,IL,USA
To women, intimacy is talking face-to-face—a behavior that probably evolved millions of years ago when ancestral females spent their days holding their

Evolution of the parasitic wasp

Evolution of the parasitic wasp subfamily Rogadinae (Braconidae ...

7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA

Within the Rogadinae, variation in the site of emergence from the mummified host probably evolved as a consequence of the mummy's site and mode of formation ...

Early Dinosaurs Had Feathers, New Fossil Suggests

Early Dinosaurs Had Feathers, New Fossil Suggests

National Geographic - Washington,DC,USA

As dinosaurs in the two groups diversified, feathers probably evolved to serve different purposes, from display to insulation to flight...

 

Female Seed Beetles Are Thirsty for Love

Female Seed Beetles Are Thirsty for Love National Geographic - Washington,DC,USA The beetles probably evolved this bizarre tactic because the species lives in a dry environment, the researchers think. "It is kind of like a bribe for .

 

The first living things: how chemicals began to replicate into ...

The first living things: how chemicals began to replicate into ...

Independent - London,England,UK

The other type of single-celled life-form probably evolved from a copying error when food was scarce. It adapted to live off a completely new energy source ...

Jealous dogs don't play ball

Jealous dogs don't play ball

New Scientist (subscription) - UK

Range agrees that the dogs' sense of fairness probably evolved long before domestication. "We are now testing for envy in wolves, and I would be surprised ...

Invention: Odourless fly-trap perfume

Invention: Odourless fly-trap perfume

New Scientist - UK
The house fly (Musca domestica) probably evolved alongside humans and is found buzzing around faeces and food on every continent except Antarctica. ...

 

World's oldest spider web found on English beach

World's oldest spider web found on English beach

Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom

"Spider silk probably evolved back in the Devonian period and it has probably been used to build webs for some 200 million years. ...

Bizarre teeth of male whales help females choose their mates

Bizarre teeth of male whales help females choose their mates

Entertainment and Showbiz! - Baroda,India

Now, according to a report by BBC News, scientists have used DNA analysis to show the teeth probably evolved as secondary sexual traits to help females ...