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Reverse Engineering Mysterious 500-Million-Year-Old Fossils That Confound Our Tree of Life

mercredi 21 juin 2017 par Simon Darroch, Imran Rahman, The Conversation US — The Sciences, Biology, Evolution

A new high-tech approach is helping paleontologists better understand the link between a set of ancient fossils and modern animals -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Teeth Tell Tale of Hippo's Quick Spread Across Africa

mardi 20 juin 2017 par Traci Watson, Nature magazine — The Sciences, Biology, Evolution

Fossils from ancient hippo ancestor suggest that grass helped the animals to conquer a continent -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

How Cats Leapt from the Wild to Our Sofas

lundi 19 juin 2017 par Nature Video — The Sciences, Evolution

Tamed cats spread across the globe beginning almost 10,000 years ago, becoming the rodent-killing helpers of early farmers, mariners and Vikings. This video was reproduced with permission and was... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

How a Math Formula Could Decide the Fate of Endangered U.S. Species

lundi 19 juin 2017 — Sustainability, Conservation, The Sciences, Evolution, Math

Feds consider “conservation triage” that would let some animals go extinct to save funds for protecting others -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Quest for Clues to Humanity's First Fires

lundi 19 juin 2017 par Amber Dance, Sapiens — The Sciences, Evolution

How and when our ancestors mastered flames remains a hotly debated question. Researchers are hunting for answers buried in ancient ash and baked soils -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

New Fossil Fills In Missing Moment in Baleen Whale History

dimanche 18 juin 2017 par Brian Switek — The Sciences, Evolution

A new toothed whale highlights an important time in the evolution of today's ocean giants -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

In Ancient Bones, an Elephant-Size Surprise

samedi 17 juin 2017 par Brian Switek — The Sciences, Evolution

Ancient DNA reshuffles the pachyderm family tree -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars

vendredi 16 juin 2017 par Mike Wall, SPACE.com — The Sciences, Evolution, Space

The billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX wants to make humanity a "multi-planetary species” -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Whatever Happened to the Greenland Vikings?

mardi 13 juin 2017 par Zach Zorich — Features, The Sciences, Arts & Culture, Evolution

They ruled the icy outpost for hundreds of years before their colonies collapsed. New findings are elucidating their puzzling decline -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American