Dog domestication during ice age
Reported by Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Analysis of Paleolithic-era teeth from a 28,500-year-old fossil site in the Czech Republic provides supporting evidence for two groups of canids -- one dog-like and the other wolf-like - with differing diets, which is consistent with the early domesticatio...
- By: Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
- On: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 12:42 EST
Western diet rich in fat and sugar linked to skin inflammation
Reported by Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Dietary components, rather than obesity itself, may lead to skin inflammation and the development of psoriasis, a study has found....
- By: Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
- On: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:17 EST
Rules of life: From a pond to the beyond
Reported by Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have conducted experiments in the nutrient-poor Cuatro Cienegas Basin in Mexico. Their goal was to shed light on how fundamental features of an organism's genome -- its size, the way it encodes information, and the density of information -- aff...
- By: Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
- On: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 14:37 EST
Reproductive genome from the laboratory
Reported by Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Synthetic biology researchers have developed a genome the size of a minimal cell that can copy itself....
- By: Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
- On: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 13:05 EST
Warming oceans are getting louder
Reported by Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
One of the ocean's loudest creatures is smaller than you'd expect -- and will get even louder and more troublesome to humans and sea life as the ocean warms, according to new research....
- By: Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
- On: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:44 EST
Oversight of fishing vessels lacking, new analysis shows
Reported by Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Policies regulating fishing in international waters do not sufficiently protect officials who monitor illegal fishing, the prohibited dumping of equipment, or human trafficking or other human rights abuses, finds a new analysis by a team of environmental r...
- By: Plants & Animals News -- ScienceDaily
- On: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:44 EST