Biology
Ant - the oldest insect in the planet alive
Over 100 million years of presence on Earth, ants are not nearly as evolutionary as their ancestors.
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Biology
People can share ancestors with kangaroos
Australia's iconic animal has a lot of genetic similarities. According to scientists, kangaroos and we used to have common ancestors.
Biology
Discover new ants in Amazon
The blind ant species live underground by evolutionary biologist Christian Rabeling (University of Texas, Austin) discovered in the Amazon rainforest is the descendants…
Biology
Mexican people planted corn 10,000 years ago
The ancestor of the original corn plant grows wild in completely different Mexico, the modern plant is the most important food source in the world. While the evidence ob…
Biology
How do you understand the evolutionary tree (Part I)
Only one image has made pages in Charles Darwin's Origin Species - first published in 1859 - with more fame. It is a tree diagram - like a tree branch branching over tim…
Biology
How do you understand the evolutionary tree (Part II)
In this article, we will clearly explain the misconception of the changes that occur at the branches at the vertices, especially the section between the top and the top.…
Biology
The ancestors of bacteria used to live in the deep sea
Some genes that allow the current bacterial species to infect humans may originate from a microbial ancestor that once lived in the deep ocean.
Biology
Origins of insects - Unknown things
The first insect on our planet appeared about 250 million years ago. That estimate has a solid scientific basis. Many ancestor fossils of plants and animals
Biology
The Y chromosome helps detect nesting tools
According to a recent study based on genetic information from Y chromosome, about 1.5 million people in Mongolia and northern China share ancestors. The historical data…
Biology
DNA revealed a descendant of Genghis Khan
Tom Robinson, an American, has long wondered about his family tree. However, he never thought that the ancestors of the lineage were forever in the Mongolian steppe.
Animal world
The first time successfully extracted the mysterious monkey species DNA in Jamaica
The monkey that DNA scientists extracted determined unlike any other monkey species existing on Earth with very different characteristics.
Animal world
It took nearly 100 years for scientists to identify termites belonging to cockroach relatives
It turns out that termites are cockroach species that organize higher society, no more and no less.
Animal world
Why do horse hooves have only one finger?
For many years, the question of why and how the horseshoe developed as it is always a controversial topic among many scientists.
Animal world
Chimp is not the closest species to human ancestors?
Bonobo's muscular studies and discovering them are more closely related to humans than ordinary Chimpanzees.
Animal world
About to revive the extinct Persian tiger
The Persian Tiger is an extinct tiger subspecies in the 1960s. However, scientists recently said they will revive this extinct precious species.