Everybody is familiar with the accident at reactor four of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. There is a film about it which is… Read More »Chernobyl’s black frogs evolved after the nuclear accident
If ever you had doubts about the way evolution works to create a camouflaged coat to enhance the prospects of survival of the world’s wild… Read More »Numbat camouflage is perfect for its habitat
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GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK, MOZAMBIQUE-NEWS AND COMMENT: This is an interesting example of how the intervention of humans can inadvertently alter the course of evolution. The… Read More »Ivory poaching over decades led to the evolution of elephants without tusks
The fictional film giants Godzilla and King Kong, which have grown in size over decades, would be unviable in the real world because their bones… Read More »Godzilla versus King Kong: unviable body shape and activity
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): They are worth millions but they are unsaleable. Cambridge University has lost two of Charles Darwin’s notebooks written in 1830 after… Read More »Cambridge University has lost priceless Charles Darwin notebooks
Scientists have come to a neat theory as to why some of the best-known dinosaurs evolved into having such enormously long necks. And when you… Read More »Theory on why dinosaurs developed long necks