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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs also helped the sharks to evolve
In the oceans of our planet are home to more than 500 species of sharks, from tiny to huge sharks-goblins and other monsters. And, the current balance of species of sharks that we see today originated after the mass extinction the...
#video of the day | the Evolution of graphics in video games from 1958 to the present day
Many of our readers probably love spending time playing video games, whether it's classics like Heroes of Might and Magic III or more modern hits with multimillion-dollar budgets. At the end of the 50s of the last century, the fir...
Plants colonized Earth for 100 million years earlier than expected
during the first four billion of its existence, our planet was devoid of any life, except microbes. The situation changed radically at the moment when the Earth began to green up , which created a favorable environment for the col...
To predict how will the evolution of people, impossible
we All know how the Neanderthals looked like: a prominent brow, thick nose, elongated skull, powerful bone structure, and probably red hair and freckled skin. You may look askance at the redheads when they meet in the subway, but ...
The extinction of the dinosaurs is only a coincidence
Falling to Earth of a meteorite 65 million years ago that caused the death of the dinosaurs, is nothing short of an accident, the probability of which was extremely small. After all, if the place of falling was any other, mass ext...
An experiment about 30 years, as scientists have observed the evolution of bacteria
Perhaps this scientific experiment can rightly be called the most long-lasting in the field of observation of a living organism. Started in 1988, the American evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski. Together with his colleagues at ...
Whales and dolphins found "almost human" culture and society
Whales and dolphins (cetaceans) live in cohesive social groups, have a complicated relationship, talking to each other and even have regional dialects — almost like in human society. A large new study published in Nature Ecology &...
"Dark DNA" can change the way we think about evolution
DNA sequencing Technology is helping scientists find answers to the questions that tormented people for centuries. Charting the genomes of animals, we get a better idea of how the giraffe acquired its long neck and why snakes are ...
Found the missing link in evolution between fish and amphibians
Today it is believed that the release of the first fish on dry land, and transformation fins into limbs for movement took place 370-375 million years ago, and the first amphibians appeared 20-30 million after this point. But all n...
Scientists have a new explanation for how on Earth could develop life
the History of evolution has repeatedly witnessed the eternal debate about what was first – the egg or the chicken — however one of the most interesting mysteries is: was there life before the advent of nucleic acids? In the...