The authors present new expression analysis software (TEKRABber) to help analyze expression correlations between transposable elements (TEs) and KRAB zinc finger (KRAB-ZNF) genes in experimentaly ...

UNBELIEVABLE three-million-year-old razor-sharp vegetable peelers used by the world’s oldest humans have been discovered. The ...

This year was another full of discoveries in human evolution that help us understand our origins and our closest evolutionary cousins, both living and extinct. With stories of our living ape relatives ...

Well, here's a pleasant surprise to close out the year - a strikingly original take on the jaded music biopic from Greatest Showman director Michael Gracey and pop princeling turned Great ...

Given that apes are humanity’s closest relatives in the animal world, it makes sense that they would serve as an enduring source of fascination. The movies have had a particularly strong ...

Billionaire Elon Musk has hailed Twitter as a bastion for freedom of expression ever since he acquired the social media site two years ago. But over the course of 2024, X, as it is now called, has ...

Dr. Nobuyuki Kawai from Nagoya University in Japan has found that the rapid detection of snakes by monkeys is because of the presence of snake scales as a visual cue. His findings highlight an ...

But the biggest rebuttal comes in the form of a phylogenetic analysis. This involves figuring out where a species belongs in the evolutionary tree, based on the traits it shares with related organisms ...

This gave the scientist the inkling that evolution could take different paths of speciation depending on an island’s unique conditions. Perhaps small changes in species over time, branching out ...

If our ape hero is painted as a victim, the portrait of the artist can still be memorably ugly. Of course, the story arc eventually curves up, but the movie is quite the one-off: a crowd-pleaser ...

Gorgonopsians were an extinct group of synapsids that lived during the Permian period, between 270 and 250 million years ago. They are part of the evolutionary lineage that eventually led to the first ...