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Herring gulls approach food more quickly when you’re not looking
Evolution & Behaviour

Herring gulls approach food more quickly when you’re not looking

As humans continue to alter habitats, wildlife struggles for space. However, some wild animals are finding refuge in urban areas, where food is plentiful. One...

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The caterpillars who see through their skin to better blend in
Evolution & Behaviour

The caterpillars who see through their skin to better blend in

Peppered moth caterpillars are masters of masquerade. They look and act like the twigs in their environment, even changing colour to create a closer likeness....

4 min read7,649 views
Humans are affecting the evolution of animals and plants
Evolution & Behaviour

Humans are affecting the evolution of animals and plants

Species on Earth are interconnected to each other through ecological interactions. Human activities can erode those connections, leading to the loss of...

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Tracing the Ancestral Roots of Neandertals
Evolution & Behaviour

Tracing the Ancestral Roots of Neandertals

We recovered DNA from two 120,000-year-old Neandertal bones discovered in Europe. All later Neandertals trace at least part of their ancestry to these early...

3 min read6,766 views
Microraptor and Indrasaurus: food for thought
Evolution & Behaviour

Microraptor and Indrasaurus: food for thought

Flying is hard. To achieve such an endeavor, bird digestion must be super-efficient, with many of them regurgitating pellets like owls. The flying dromaeosaur...

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Blood from a golden stone: dinosaur discoveries within amber
Evolution & Behaviour

Blood from a golden stone: dinosaur discoveries within amber

Beautiful prehistoric flower petals, pristine exoskeletons of insects, delicate silken spiderwebs, and even entire desiccated carcasses of small lizards have...

4 min read6,863 views
Life’s early dinner parties
Evolution & Behaviour

Life’s early dinner parties

Ernietta was a complex lifeform inhabiting the Earth’s earliest seafloor ecosystem. There are few fossil specimens available to study in detail how these...

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The social life of a fish shoal in ancient times
Evolution & Behaviour

The social life of a fish shoal in ancient times

Groups of living animals show beautiful patterns of collective behaviors. This must also be true for extinct organisms. We analyzed the fossilized fish group...

4 min read6,137 views
How behavior can transcend generations
Evolution & Behaviour

How behavior can transcend generations

Classical genetics dictates that chromosomal DNA stores all the heritable information. However, the DNA sequence is not the only piece of information that one...

4 min read7,748 views
Ancient human DNA from a 10000 years old "chewing gum"
Evolution & Behaviour

Ancient human DNA from a 10000 years old "chewing gum"

We identified a new type of source of ancient human genetic data. Our group extracted DNA from Mesolithic masticated lumps, made from distilled birch bark...

3 min read6,970 views