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Last Common Ancestor, No Matter Its Feet, Could Have Been a Vertical Climber | Newswise
13+ min ago (790+ words) Newswise — COLUMBUS, Ohio – New research suggests that no matter what we eventually determine the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees to be, we’ll learn it was a primate that climbed trees. Humans and chimpanzees began their separate evolutionary paths…...
The rainforest is not the lungs of the Earth — the ocean is. Microscopic phytoplankton drifting in the sunlit top layer of the sea produce roughly half of all the oxygen on the planet, more than every tree and forest combined
10+ min ago (598+ words) By Lachlan Brown · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 18, 2026 · How we edit I still find the comparison useful. It turns our attention from the most visible producers on Earth to organisms that are mostly invisible, dispersed through the light-filled surface…...
Ethiopia Launches Multi-Million Euro SYMBIOTIC Initiative to Embed Biodiversity into Economic Policy and Private Sector Investments
56+ min ago (192+ words) Addis Ababa (Ethiopia Today) August 18, 2026: Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute (EBI), along with key government and civil society partners, officially launched the national kick-off of the €14.9 million SYMBIOTIC project in Addis Ababa to embed biodiversity…...
In a cave in southern Italy in 1963, archaeologists found two skeletons buried in an embrace 12,000 years earlier, one of them long assumed to be male — ancient DNA from their bones revealed in 2026 that both were female and related, and that the younger carried the same rare growth-disorder mutation still seen in children today
44+ min ago (76+ words) A 12,000-year-old embrace long misread as a man and woman tells a different story: genetic analysis reveals two women, one living with a rare inherited disorder that still affects families today. By Lab Report · Edited by Nato Lagidze Published August…...
This tooth-filled mouth belongs to a lethal predator??? can you guess which one in less than 15 seconds?
58+ min ago (226+ words) This is a close-up image of a rare animal – can you guess which one? Animal mouths come in all shapes and sizes. According to the Guinness World Records, the largest terrestrial animal mouth belongs to the hippo – fully open, its…...
Frog Futures
57+ min ago (782+ words) Junior Ella Wagner studies how North Carolina treefrogs conserve water in the face of increasing heat and drought. All 22,000 + undergraduate students at Carolina are engaged in research, from the humanities to health care. Undergraduate research at UNC-Chapel Hill prepares students…...
Inside China's national parks as wildlife rebounds and communities gain
1+ hour, 17+ min ago (184+ words) Qilian Mountain National Park, Zhangye City, Gansu Province, June 19, 2025. /VCG China's national park system is staring to deliver. Ecosystem quality is improving, flagship species are bouncing back and local communities are reaping green development fruits, according to the National Forestry…...
New Math Tool Reveals Nature's Food Chain
9+ hour, 37+ min ago (558+ words) Understanding "who eats whom" is the key to keeping our oceans alive - and our dinner plates full. However, this invisible network that makes up the food chain can unravel with the pull of just one thread. Overfish one species, and…...
Why Is The Human Little Toe Shrinking? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains
1+ hour, 9+ min ago (406+ words) When they do notice, the reaction tends to be a version of the same thought — that the toe looks unfinished, as though the body were partway through getting rid of it. That hunch is closer to the truth than most…...
3.5-Billion-Year-Old Organic Chert Reveals One of Earth's “Earliest Known Occurrences of Biologically Generated Organic Matter”
1+ hour, 22+ min ago (527+ words) Indian scientists searching for clues to the oldest signs of life on Earth have discovered evidence of organic matter in a 3.5-billion-year-old sample of Paleoarchean volcanic–hydrothermal chert. If confirmed, the team said the ancient chert would represent one of…...