Some Alaskan trout use flexible guts for the ultimate binge diet
Imagine having a daylong Thanksgiving feast every day for a month, then, only pauper’s rations the rest of the year.
Most of the Harmful Mutations in People Arose in the Past 5,000 to 10,000 Years
Spectrum of human genetic diversity today is vastly different from only 200 to 400 generations ago
Plumes Across the Pacific Deliver Thousands of Microbial Species to West Coast
A surprising number of microorganisms – 99 percent more kinds than had been reported in findings published just four months ago – are leaping the biggest gap on the planet.
Large Bacterial Population Colonized Land 2.75 Billion Years Ago
There is evidence that some microbial life had migrated from the Earth's oceans to land by 2.75 billion years ago, though many scientists believe such land-based life was limited because the ozone layer that shields against ultraviolet radiation did not form until hundreds of millions years later.