Month: October 2020

“Let’s learn from history: Removing legal protections is a disaster for gray wolves.”

Source: ‘We Will See Them in Court’: Howls of Protest and Lawsuit Promised as Trump Takes Wolves Off Endangered Species List | Common Dreams News

“There are no intellectual seizures, which is odd, given that large regions of the brain are presumed by neuroscientists to serve intellectual thought.”

Source: If Materialists Are Right About the Brain, Why No “Morality Seizures”? | Evolution News

Source: Precambrian creature scrunches the origin of life even further – Uncommon Descent

Genomes trace how the animals moved around the world — often with humans by their side.

Source: Ancient dog DNA reveals 11,000 years of canine evolution

If we are built to run long distances, how does that explain almost everything about us?

Source: How we evolved to run, and why we probably didn’t

Fossils reveal that dinosaurs’ flying cousins become twice as efficient at flying over 150 million years.

Source: Pterosaurs increased their flight efficiency over time – new evidence for long-term evolution

In a new study published this week in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from the United Kingdom combined fossil records with a new model of flight to measure flight efficiency in pterosaurs and fill in gaps in our knowledge of their evolutionary story.

Source: Pterosaurs Evolved Their Flight Ability over Millions of Years: Study | Paleontology | Sci-News.com

Early fossils with guts, segmented bodies and other sophisticated features reveal a revolution in animal life — before the Cambrian explosion.

Source: These bizarre ancient species are rewriting animal evolution

Source: Large tides may have been a key factor in the evolution of bony fish and tetrapods