Evolution
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The museum acquired the world’s most complete Stegosaurus for an undisclosed sum with help from a hedge fund manager
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Discovery of 430,000-year-old shell doodle ‘rewrites human history’ and suggests our ancestors had considerable manual dexterity, say researchers
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Radiocarbon dating of fossils suggests the big beasts were driven from Arctic regions of North America by a cooling climate
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GrrlScientist: Today, I share my first impressions of books about how human use of toxic chemicals is affecting evolution, how modern humans came into being after the human-chimp split, and the ethics of everyday life.
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New finds from Mongolia add new information on dinosaur behaviour
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Andrew Brown: Britain’s chief rabbi outdid himself at the Vatican by discussing fossils rather than showing how diverse families could be supported
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GrrlScientist: Natural history museums are many things, but they are not peopled exclusively with dry, dusty old white men, rooting around in dry, dusty old drawers, examining dry, dusty old dead things.
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A tiger is spotted near a French supermarket; Discovery Channel is criticized for anaconda stunt; Convention on Migratory Species agrees greater protection for sharks; otter talk, uncovered; eyespots misdirect predators; the London chicken show
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The Bible garnered 37% of public vote, while On the Origin of Species received 35%, writes Alison Flood
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Andrew Brown: A study of 550 societies suggests that belief in a personified deity that watches over believers may confer evolutionary advantages
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GrrlScientist: This week, I share my initial impressions of three wonderful hot-off-the-presses science books that just arrived in the mail; two books are about genetics and one is a diary by a citizen scientist
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US scientist dismisses Dawkins as a ‘journalist’ in BBC television interview about pair’s differing views on natural selection
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Evidence suggest 250-million-year-old marine reptile had terrestrial ancestors, scientists say
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Rodent-like Vintana sertichi lived over 66 million years ago alongside dinosaurs on the supercontinent Gondwana
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Meet penguin-bot. Remote-controlled rovers disguised as penguins could reduce stress to wild animals during behavioural research
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Oliver Burkeman column Whether you face your past or walk into your future, time and space are complex
Oliver Burkeman: Neither language nor the basic arrangement of our bodies determines how we put time in space. So what does? -
Pope Francis cautions against portraying God as magician, and says it is possible to believe in evolution and creation
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Tim Birkhead recalls his early research on the guillemots of Skomer and asks for your help to keep the project going
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A life in ... Jared Diamond: ‘Humans, 150,000 years ago, wouldn’t figure on a list of the five most interesting species on Earth’
The bestselling biogeographer talks to Oliver Burkeman about dealing with the critics who condemn him as a cultural imperialist
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Deinocheirus mirificus, or ‘unusual horrible hand’, had long, clawed forearms, a sail on its back and a duck-like bill
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Oldest genome sequence of a modern human suggests Homo sapiens first bred with Neanderthals 50,000-60,000 years ago
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Rare Edmontosaurus, one of only few mummified dinosaurs in existence, to go on display at North Dakota Heritage Center
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Cave exploration, or Speleology, is providing valuable insights into evolution. Italian explorer Francesco Sauro describes the importance of underground investigation
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Fossils of 380m-year-old lake-dwelling placoderms point to bony, L-shaped male organ and female ‘cheese-grater’ genitals, scientists say
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GrrlScientist: After my bookgasm (book-buying binge) at last week’s Frankfurt Book Fair, I’ve got a mountain of wonderful books to share with you -- a project that will take place over the next few weeks.
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Geologists, climate scientists, ecologists – and a lawyer – to rule on whether impact of human life on Earth has pushed us into a new epoch
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The greatest transitions in the geological timescale are marked by the flowering or decimation of life. With species extinction and global warming gaining speed, humanity’s impact on Earth is clear
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Scientists believe the now-extinct two-legged sthenurine kangaroo was more than two metres tall and unable to hop
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Henry Gee: Humans do not stand at the top of a ladder of creation, above the apes and below the angels, superior to all other species
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The discovery of wall paintings in Indonesian caves suggests that the human ability to express ourselves began before we trekked out of Africa
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Naomi Elster: Cancer’s ability to evolve drug resistance makes it impossible to eradicate, but we may one day transform it from a killer into a long-term illness
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Ghostly hand markings and animal paintings in Sulawesi caves are much older than thought, pushing back probable date for origin of art
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Although I recently returned from visiting London, books still arrived in the mail during my absence for me to share with you. Here’s some of the treasure-trove ...
GrrlScientist The fungus among us: Kew Gardens' Fungarium