May 2, 2016 'Mom of the year?' Mother spider feeds self to babies The insect world may have found its ‘Mom of the Year’ in the female Stegodyphus lineatus, a desert spider that feeds herself to her young shortly after they’re hatched. This practice, which is known as matriphagy, has been recorded in spiders before, according to Mor Salomon of the Israel Cohen Institute for Biological Control in Yehud-Monosson, Israel.
May 2, 2016 Fossil teeth suggest humans played role in Neanderthal extinction Ancient teeth from Italy suggest that the arrival of modern humans in Western Europe coincided with the demise of Neanderthals there, researchers said
May 2, 2016 Weird 'water tongue' lets fish feed on land A fish that uses water as a sort of tongue to feed on land could shed light on how animals with backbones first invaded land, researchers say
May 2, 2016 17-million-year-old whale skull helps place humanity's first steps A 17-million-year-old beaked whale fossil is helping researchers solve a puzzle about the likely birthplace of humanity in East Africa, a new study finds
May 2, 2016 Be my biological Valentine: Do microbes define physical attraction? Roses are red, violets are blue, and your microbiome makes me love you. Does it really? Well, according to one researcher, it does.
May 2, 2016 New evidence: South American monkeys came from Africa The evolutionary mystery of how monkeys arrived in South America may have been solved.
May 2, 2016 2 billion years unchanged, bacteria pose an evolutionary puzzle Wedged inside rocks in the deep sea off the coast of Western Australia lurks an organism that hasn't evolved in more than 2 billion years, scientists say
May 2, 2016 Barren deserts can host complex ecosystems "Biological soil crusts" don't look like much.
May 2, 2016 Birth of jaws: Tiny fish may be ancient ancestor The remains of a 415-million-year-old fish skull from Siberia though miniscule in size offer hints about the origins of all jawed vertebrates, ranging from reptiles to humans, a new study finds
May 2, 2016 How flying fish took flight? Fossils may tell us An extinct flying fish may shed light on how gliding evolved in such animals, researchers say.
