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Evolution

What “Theories of Everything” all miss

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a sugar glider soaring through the air, with its patagium fully extended

Unlocking the Secrets of Flying Mammals: How Evolution Shaped the Patagium

Categories Life & Non-humans
The updated bird family tree, published in Nature, delineating 93 million years of evolutionary relationships between 363 bird species.

Computational tools fuel reconstruction of new and improved bird family tree

Categories Life & Non-humans
colorful bar chart

Music: Song lyrics have become simpler and more repetitive since 1980

Categories Social Sciences
Killuragh Cave, County Limerick, Ireland.

Unearthing Ancient Dental Secrets: How Our Ancestors’ Mouths Differed from Our Own

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans
A dwarf species of rock-wallaby, the nabarlek. Image: Ian Morris Small Aussie mammal's bite 'packs a punch'

Tiny Wallabies Pack a Powerful Bite

Categories Life & Non-humans
The alligator gar, and other gar species, are “living fossils” that it shows little species diversity or physical differences from ancestors that lived tens of millions of years ago. (Photo by Solomon David)

How ‘Living Fossils’ Like Gars Persist Over Millions of Years

Categories Life & Non-humans
Top and left images are adult sea lampreys. On the right is a fluorescence microscopy image of a developing sea lamprey embryo.

An awkward family reunion: Sea monsters are our cousins

Categories Life & Non-humans
Rendering of pleurocystitid (left) next to the soft robot they modeled after the ancient sea creature.

How ancient sea creatures can inform soft robotics

Categories Life & Non-humans, Technology
fossil tree

Rare 3D fossils show that some early trees had forms unlike any you’ve ever seen

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans
Adult Periodical Cicada Credit: Ed Reschke via Getty Images

Swarming cicadas, stock traders, and the wisdom of the crowd

Categories Life & Non-humans, Physics & Mathematics
Figure 1. (A) Reconstructed Caudipteryx © Christophe Hendrickx. Used under the terms of the Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 3.0). Licensing details: [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en]. (B) Robopteryx, imitating the morphology of Caudipteryx, positioned in front of a grasshopper in the field (marked by a red arrow). (C) Grasshopper tested in the experiments.

Feathered Dinosaurs’ Surprising Purpose: Scaring, Not Flying

Categories Life & Non-humans
Skeleton at the site in Jubuicabeira II, Brazil.

Syphilis-like diseases were already widespread in America before the arrival of Columbus

Categories Health
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