Newly recognised genetic populations carry their evolutionary history with them, and the history of their habits. This is why detecting new species is so important.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer and senior advisor Kellyanne Conway chat.
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Victorian attitudes influenced what scientists thought they were observing about sexual behaviors in the animal world. But modern techniques reveal the myth for what it is.
All dingoes are ginger, right? Nope. They don’t bark? Wrong again. And they’re ultimately just wild dogs? Well, that’s trickier, but for conservation purposes the answer is still basically no.
Charles Darwin was one of the first to show connections in the variety of life by using a rough evolutionary tree. Things have developed quite a bit since then.
The armour of the 380 million year old placoderm fish Mcnamaraspis kaprios.
John Long
Scientists have long believed that our distant cousins are the placoderms, and ancient group of armoured fish. But a new study is casting doubt on that view.
Alfred the aetiocetid had teeth but needed a better way to capture his tiny prey.
Carl Buell.