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Beetles became an evolutionary success with help from stolen microbial genes
Evolution & Behaviour

Beetles became an evolutionary success with help from stolen microbial genes

How did beetles become one of the most diverse groups of animals? We reconstructed the beetle family tree and studied beetle DNA. We determined that...

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Snakes in Decline: Not as Good as You May Think
Evolution & Behaviour

Snakes in Decline: Not as Good as You May Think

Snakes are essential parts of their ecosystem. Even if they are not well-liked, they can indicate what is happening for other species. Amphibian declines have...

4 min read7,350 views
Distinctive stone tools reveal Siberian Neanderthals originated in eastern Europe
Evolution & Behaviour

Distinctive stone tools reveal Siberian Neanderthals originated in eastern Europe

Neanderthals once inhabited Eurasia, but the geographical origin and time of arrival of the easternmost populations in southern Siberia remain open questions....

4 min read8,862 views
Repurposing of retroviral genes: when foe becomes self
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Repurposing of retroviral genes: when foe becomes self

Throughout evolution, our genomes have been under attack by potentially harmful viruses. However, sometimes genes from the viral invaders have been captured...

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Why so aggressive? Bringing the past into the present
Evolution & Behaviour

Why so aggressive? Bringing the past into the present

Animals change their aggressive behaviour across contexts, potentially due to lingering effects of past experiences. We tested the aggression in fruit flies...

4 min read4,873 views
Our ancestors in Africa ate roasted root vegetables 170 thousand years ago
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Our ancestors in Africa ate roasted root vegetables 170 thousand years ago

We report evidence for the cooking and sharing of root vegetables by early humans from at least 170,000 years ago. Charred Hypoxis rhizomes from Border Cave,...

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Scrambled frog eggs return to life
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Scrambled frog eggs return to life

Eggs have a highly organized spatial structure. Common sense tells us that if we scramble this structure, the life of the egg will probably end. Contrary to...

4 min read6,340 views
Processions in Palaeozoic seas
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Processions in Palaeozoic seas

Collective behavior is common among present-day animals. Exceptional fossils from Morocco - trilobites lined-up in single files and facing the same direction -...

4 min read4,978 views
T. rex growing pains: the king of dinosaurs was first a tyrannical teenager
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T. rex growing pains: the king of dinosaurs was first a tyrannical teenager

Studying the bone microstructure of the skeletons of two medium-sized Tyrannosaurus rex, we investigated their early life. We discovered that they were...

4 min read5,980 views
How Does Memory Guide Learning? Birds Can Answer
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How Does Memory Guide Learning? Birds Can Answer

Inherent complexities of the human brain make it difficult to pinpoint the process of memory encoding. Turning to songbirds, we identify memory circuits by...

3 min read5,794 views