High acidity levels in oceans harming marine life
December 5th, 2010 - 2:03 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 5 (IANS) With acidity levels of the oceans going up greatly, it could harm marine life and consequently impact billions of people who rely on fish as their main protein ... Read more...
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New Study Published In ‘Biology Letters’ Challenges The Theory Of Evolution Of The Famed Charles Darwin
August 25th, 2010 - 8:07 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
August 25, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): A new study has the potential to shudder the very fundamentals of Darwin's theory of evolution. This study has mentioned that 'living space', and not ... Read more...
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New Evolution Theory Published In “Biology Letters” Questions Charles Darwin’s Theory Of Evolution
August 25th, 2010 - 7:54 pm ICT by GD
By Madhuri Dey
Aug 25, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A recent study published in "Biology Letters" argues that perhaps Charles Darwin's famous theory of evolution had some faults in it. A study conducted by University ... Read more...
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Indian-origin researcher challenges Darwin’s ’survival of the fittest’ theory
August 24th, 2010 - 3:31 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 24 (ANI): A new study could shake the very foundations of Darwin's theory of evolution, which says that 'living space' and not competition, was the major driving force of evolution.The ... Read more...
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Fat lipped fish evolving at record speed
May 15th, 2010 - 2:02 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 15 (ANI): In what could be called one of the fastest evolutionary change in an organism, fish in a remote crater lake in Nicaragua are developing a new physical feature- ... Read more...
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SUV-sized fish swam the Jurassic waters 170 million years ago
February 19th, 2010 - 2:55 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 19 (ANI): Scientists have identified 170 million year old fossils as belonging to SUV-sized filter-feeding fishes that emerged during the Jurassic Period, and lived until the extinction event that wiped ... Read more...
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Toxicants detected in Asian monkey hair may warn of environmental threats to humans
January 5th, 2010 - 3:29 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, January 5 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have determined that testing hair from Asian monkeys living close to people may provide early warnings of toxic threats to humans and wildlife.In ... Read more...
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Ancient whale was dwarf mud-sucker
December 25th, 2009 - 4:55 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, December 25 (ANI): A new study has determined that an ancient dwarf whale unearthed in southeastern Australia captured its prey by slurping up mouthfuls of mud.According to a report in ... Read more...
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Bigfoot’s favorite haunts revealed
July 7th, 2009 - 12:40 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 7 (ANI): A team of scientists has applied ecological niche modelling to predict the mythical Bigfoot's favorite haunts in the United States.Conservation biologists often need to predict where rare species ... Read more...
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Modern koalas co-existed with giant ones for hundreds of thousands of years
January 5th, 2009 - 12:18 pm ICT by ANI
London, January 5 (ANI): Contrary to the suggestion that modern koalas are dwarf descendants of prehistoric giant koalas that got extinct about 50,000 years ago, an Australian palaeontologist has established that ... Read more...
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Australia’’s iconic koala is not a dwarf, claims new study
December 16th, 2008 - 5:19 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 16 (ANI): A palaeontologist has determined that Australia''s iconic koala is not a dwarf and the finding has major implications for theories on what happened to the continent''s prehistoric ... Read more...
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Study confirms Darwinian idea of speciation
April 6th, 2008 - 4:50 pm ICT by admin
New York, April 6 (IANS) In the first experiment of its kind conducted in nature, a biologist has come up with strong evidence for one of Charles Darwin's cornerstone ideas - adaptation ... Read more...
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Platypuses might have evolved slower than earlier believed
January 22nd, 2008 - 1:28 pm ICT by admin
London, Jan 22 (ANI): The discovery of 100 million year old fossilized jawbones of a platypus like animal suggests that egg-laying mammals such as the platypus might have evolved more slowly than ... Read more...
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