The development of hair was of central importance for the evolution of mammals and, thus, also of humans. However, the ...

Pepe the Frog—what started as an innocent cartoon character has evolved into a complex symbol of internet culture. Born from ...

His findings highlight an evolutionary adaptation of primates to ... It's Complicated: Researchers Discover Unexpected Complexity of Sexual Differentiation in African Clawed Frog Dec. 16 ...

The boneless fish that amphibians evolved from have one or even zero TAS2Rs, but in frogs that number ranges from 50 to almost 300. Weng attributes the remarkable increase to evolutionary adaptation.

Its evolutionary significance makes the challenging discovery of this species a huge win for biologists. Though purple frog tadpoles were described as far back as 1917, it was as late as 2003 when ...

Kermitops had a rounded snout, not unlike frogs and salamanders ... of continuing to add new fossil data to understanding this evolutionary problem,” said National Museum of Natural History ...

Frogs can vary widely in how they look ... a mathematical model that determines how different ecological factors drive evolution given a group with shared ancestry. The model, which considered brain ...

The results of our study suggest that Chernobyl frogs could have undergone a process of rapid evolution in response to radiation. In this scenario, those frogs with darker colouration at the time of ...