The reduced hind limbs of whales are often touted as another example of vestigial structures, left over from their landlubbing days around 50 million years ago. Now, the legs are reduced to tiny hip ...

This tiny bird sculpture was created 40,000 years ago by early humans in Europe who carved the key animals in their lives.

Scientists must journey to remote islands in the middle of the Bering Sea, braving uncertain conditions, to reach the ...

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I appreciate the point of view of Drs Dupont and Thorndyke, but still insist that the wonderful regenerative capacities of the classes of echinoderms that were highlighted in their correspondence ...

The resulting CCs can quickly cover a large proportion of the whole protein set. An example of this observation is shown in Supplementary Data Sheet S1. Theoretically, these huge CCs are easily broken ...

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The work by Vallier and colleagues programmes ESCs and IPSCs towards hepatocyte fate by using a combination of hepatocyte transcription factors. Based on informatic analyses comparing adult ...

The sea urchin anti-graft immunity is an example of a secondary immune response, primed by past experience, that increases upon a second experience (Coffaro and Hinegardner, 1997). However, how and if ...

Octopuses have evolved incredibly large and complex nervous systems that allow them to perform impressive behaviors, like plan ahead, navigate and solve puzzles. The nervous system of the common ...