There are few Stranger animals than monkfish, a species that has so much trouble finding a mate that when males and females connect underwater, males fuse their tissue with females for life. After the merger, the two share a single respiratory and digestive system. Scientists have now discovered that monkfish …
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Scientists have successfully revived microbes that had been dormant at the bottom of the sea since the age of dinosaurs, allowing organisms to eat and even multiply after eons in the depths. His research sheds light on the remarkable survival power of some of the most primitive species on Earth, …
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FP TrendsJuly 24, 2020 18:04:21 IST Neanderthals were hunters and gatherers, and therefore led very physically stressful lives. But a recent study has revealed that these ice age beings had less ability to withstand pain than modern humans. Rude ancient human relatives have now been extinct for 40,000 years, but …
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Approximately 1.4 million years ago, a hominid in what is now Ethiopia painstakingly modified a hippo bone in a hand ax, demonstrating mastery of the advanced “Acheulean technique” that had only been thought to have been developed half a million years later. Prehistoric stone tools are quite common. Bone tools …
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Today, flowering plants (or angiosperms) represent about four-fifths of all green plants on Earth, but for billions of years they did not exist at all. Biologists have now been able to fully record the rapid increase in angiosperms in the past 140 million years. A recently released ‘time tree’ of …
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