According to fossil records, dragonflies are one of the first insects with wings ever to evolve. So the next time you see one, think about the fact that they have been on Earth for over 300 million years. Termites like heavy metal music. ...
Many of these feathered dinosaurs could not fly, prompting a new mystery: If not to take flight, why did they evolve to have feathers in the first place? This movie illustrates three different ways in which dinosaurs with proto-wings might have flushed their prey by visual displays to subsequ...
The wētā derives its name from the indigenous Maori language, meaning "god of ugly things." It is endemic to New Zealand. Because the nation was void of mammals for an extended period, the wētā could evolve to a rodentlike size, though the introduction of actual rodents to the islandha...
The wētā derives its name from the indigenous Maori language, meaning "god of ugly things." It is endemic to New Zealand. Because the nation was void of mammals for an extended period, the wētā could evolve to a rodentlike size, though the introduction of actual rodents to the islandha...
But Distal-less did not evolve just to control coloration on the wings of butterflies. In fact, the gene is found in animals ranging from fruit flies to humans and, in many of them, helps the developing organism build appendages (Robledo et al. 2002). Distal-less seems to have performed...
Hallmark didn't break any strike rules. The saw the strike coming and did something about it before it happened, so they could weather the storm. The Hallmark channel has some pretty interesting titles in it's all new movie line up. You can catch new movies through most of December, but...
This article was basically a synopsis of his 2012 book called “Learning from the Octopus” which was fun book to read – but did not feature near enough insect examples. This article mentions only one insect (the stingless bee, go figure) but sentences like; “The best bet is to do ...
however, using sophisticated tools for measuring and manipulating neural activity and behavior in freely behaving animals, we are starting to generate a picture of how these processes may occur, bringing new power to old theories and rapid progress toward understanding how behaviors adapt and evolve....
Fromthesmallestinsecttosomeofthelargestmammals, 都曾被开花植物改造 theyveallbeenshapedbyflowers. 这又是如何发生的呢 Buthowdidthishappen? 原因又是什么 Andwhy? 开花植物的出现 Theemergenceofflowers 是地球发展史上一个重要转折点 isoneofthebiggestturningpointsinEarthshistory. ...
So how did the early arrivals to Australia deal with such extreme weather? Have we always had a volatile climate? To answer these questions, we need to follow Australia's colonial settlers back beyond their graves and trace through centuries-old documents to uncover what the climate was like ...