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Origins
Origin & Evolution of Life
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The Earliest Animal
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
07/01/12 |
| Researchers have uncovered physical proof that animals existed 585 million years ago - 30 million years earlier than previously believed. |
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Why Coelacanths are Living Fossils
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
06/22/12 |
| Rare and extremely endangered coelacanths are animals that have not fundamentally changed for 400 million years. Dubbed "living fossils," these animals are still able to genetically adapt to their environment. |
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A Comprehensive Study of Ice
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
06/18/12 |
| Scientists have published the most comprehensive study every performed on ice. Ice plays an important role in Earth's habitability, affecting everything from life's origins to our planet's global climate. |
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Where We Split From Sharks
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
06/16/12 |
| The common ancestor of all jawed vertebrates on Earth may have resembled a shark. |
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Expanding the Genetic Alphabet
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
06/07/12 |
| A new study suggests that the replication process for DNA is more open to unnatural base pairs than previously thought. An expanded 'DNA alphabet' could carry more information than natural DNA. |
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Channeling our Ion Past
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
06/07/12 |
| To understand how the first cells transported ions across their membranes, researchers are studying simple channels used by fungi to kill off bacteria. |
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Iron's Role in Early Life
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
06/06/12 |
| A new study shows that when life began on Earth, iron may have helped RNA assume the molecular shapes necessary for biology. Today, this role is played by magnesium. |
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Time to Shift from Dinosaurs to Birds
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
05/30/12 |
| A new study has shown that birds are essentially living dinosaurs, with skulls that are similar to those of their juvenile ancestors. |
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