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Researchers develop model to show evolution of drug resistant bacteria

Sep 12, 2016

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have designed a model to show the development of antibiotic resistant bacteria. In doing so, the model also demonstrates Dar...

Marine Biologists support Cope’s Rule of evolution making sea creatures bigger

Cody Gash

Feb 20, 2015

Innovation

A new research finds that the average size of marine creatures has increased by a factor of 150 over the past 542 million years. The largest sea creature on record is blue whale, which sizes approximately 30 me...

Marine Biologists prove Cope’s Rule of evolution of animals to obtain bigger body size

Cody Gash

Feb 20, 2015

Innovation

In his hypothesis, “Cope’s Rule,” the 19th century’s paleontologist, Edward Drinker Cope, had claimed that as species of animals evolve, they tend to obtain a bigger body size. Although the theory he proposed w...

Researchers create an evolutionary tree for birds based on genomes

Charles Omedo

Dec 12, 2014

Innovation

In a first breakthrough of its kind, scientists have been able to successfully create an evolutionary tree for birds based on their genomes – and they accomplished this feat with the genes of 48 bird species in...

New Fossil research solves missing link of genetic evolution, from water to land dinosaurs

Siddhant Ghatge

Nov 6, 2014

Innovation

Vertebrates evolved from sea to land, and had to go through many evolutionary genetic changes. A new Harvard study focuses on these genetic changes after turning lizard limbs into genitalia in the laboratory. T...

Scientists reveal how genetically close gibbons are to humans

Scientists reveal how genetically close gibbons are to human Evolution

Charles Omedo

Sep 11, 2014

Innovation

In a new study published recently, scientists have revealed the genetic make-ups of gibbons, a primate family of apes, and revealed how related and close it is to humans genetically. Gibbons are the last to be ...

African walking fish evolved to live up to two years on land discovered by Scientists

Charles Omedo

Aug 28, 2014

Innovation

Researchers are currently studying a newly discovered type of African fish which can live outside of water for as long as two years, and even crawl on land to get to objects. This crawling fish is known as poly...

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