Browsing: evolutionary

Credit: CC0 Public Domain About 400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants,…

A mating pair of wild-type (left) and mir-193 mutant (right) B. anynana butterflies. Credit: Shen Tian Lepidopterans (butterflies and moths)…

C. elegans and C. briggsae worms under the microscope. Credit: Natalie Jones, CC BY What can plants or animals do…

Fruit flies in the lab of biologist Amanda Larracuente. Credit: University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster New research…

The northern three-toed jerboa (Dipus sagitta) hosts ancestors of human hepatitis E virus. Credit: Leonid Lavrenchenko An international team of…

Timetree of 455 species of primates. Images from phylopic.org. Credit: Craig et al., 2024. In a new article published in…

Family tree of mammals surveyed for the study, also known as a phylogeny. The branches of the tree are labeled…