After 80 years of stumping scientists, strange Philippine frog unmasked as hybrid
Evolutionary biologists working in the Philippines have long puzzled over a hard-to-find amphibian mystery: the Leyte Chorus ...
More Mysterious Than the Dodo: This Unremarkable-Looking Bird Is Evolution’s Greatest Puzzle
The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...
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15 Years Later, the National Museum of Natural History Is Still Asking What It Means to Be Human
Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...
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Las Vegas Natural History Museum welcomes visitors with new STEM weekend partnerships
LAS VEGAS — Visitors have new opportunities to engage in science, technology, engineering and mathematics programming at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum. The team is featuring interactive ...
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Vertebrate and anthropology palaeobiology
Fosillised scales and teeth of the wealden fish (Lepidotes) found inside the ribs of the dinosaur Baryonyx walkeri, Surrey © The Trustees of the Natural History ...
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Evolutionary Algorithms: How Natural Selection Beats Human Design
Take a good look at what you’re seeing above — these bizarre, bent paperclip-looking objects don’t look like much, and chances are you don’t know what you’re staring at. But the middle ...
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This extinct tree-dwelling mammal may be among humans’ closer relatives
The planet’s earliest mammals are an important part of our evolutionary history, yet remain shrouded in mystery. One of them, Mixodectes pungens lived in western North America during the early ...
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A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal
It also shows that these arboreal mammals -- an extinct family known as mixodectids -- and humans occupy relatively close branches on the evolutionary tree.
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First Fridays at the Natural History Museum
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Evolution Petroleum Announces Acquisition of Non-Operated Oil and Natural Gas Assets in New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana
HOUSTON, March 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Evolution Petroleum Corporation (NYSE American: EPM) ("Evolution" or the "Company") today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to ...
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National Museum of Natural History Scientists Discover That Ancient Insects Perfected Their Plant Palates 165 Million Years Ago
The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of herbivory long before flowering plants flourished, upending a long-held hypothesis Jack Tamisiea Paleontologist Conrad Labandeira, the ...
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Mollusk family tree helps resolve long-standing evolutionary questions
An international team of experts has resolved long-standing questions about the evolutionary history of mollusks, one of the most diverse zoological groups on the planet. The study, published in ...