Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

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Our study provides a comprehensive perspective on mitogenomic evolution among Tettigoniidae species. Table 1. Detailed information on the alignment and corresponding optimal tree for three datasets.

This particular Mixodectes pungens specimen represents a mature adult that weighed about three pounds, lived in trees, feasted on leaves, and may be among our closer evolutionary relatives.

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It also shows that these arboreal mammals — an extinct family known as mixodectids — and humans occupy relatively close branches on the evolutionary tree. “A 62-million-year-old skeleton of this ...

In evolutionary terms, hunter-gatherers were generalists, in that they needed to know how to do a little bit of everything to survive, which required flexibility and adaptability. That is often ...

Their aim was to investigate how the movement, age, and turnover of birds within a population influences the diversity and evolution of their songs -- including which songs become locally popular ...