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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.

Yosemite reports rare red fox sightings

Posted in Featured, Science on 29th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller

The first sightings of a Sierra Nevada red fox in nearly 100 years: One of the rarest animals in North America, with a population of only about 50 animals.

Great Apes and Humans: Conserving Our Evolutionary Relatives

Posted in Science on 18th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller

Conservationists note that it is more important than ever that we work to save our evolutionary relatives.

Polar bears migrate to escape effects of climate change

Posted in Featured, Science on 10th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller

Warming temperatures are driving dramatic losses in sea ice, leaving these cold-climate mammals stranded.

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.