evolution

Evolution 'favors bigger sea creatures'

Posted in Featured, Science on 20th Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller

The animals in the ocean have been getting bigger, on average, since the Cambrian period; and not by chance.

By not evolving, deep sea microbes may prove Darwin right

Posted in Science on 4th Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller

'If evolution is a product of changes in the physical and biological environment, and there are no changes, then there will be no evolution.'

How complex environments push brain evolution

Posted in Science on 2nd Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller

A recent study by neuroscientists offers clues about how increasingly difficult tasks have evolved the brain.

Ancient fossil may rewrite fish family tree

Posted in Featured, Science on 13th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller

These findings as a whole could correct the misconception that cartilaginous fish are more primitive than bony fish.

In fossilized fish eye, rods and cones preserved for 300 million years

Posted in Science on 25th Dec, 2014
by Alex Muller

It is the first time that fossilized photoreceptors from a vertebrate eye have ever been found.