The phenomenon of bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago, a new study has discovered.The first animals to ever glow in this way were marine invertebrates called octocorals, the study conducted by researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History reported.Bioluminescence refers to the glow that some marine organisms can produce. The glow can make these animals look like they are electrical, giving of a beautiful colored light. The phenomenon is...
The findings push back the previous oldest dated example of the trait by nearly 300 million years.
Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago in a group of marine invertebrates called octocorals, according to the results of a new study from scientists with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
That coffee you slurped this morning? It’s 600,000 years old.
Using genes from coffee plants around the world, researchers built a family tree for the world's most popular type of coffee, known to coffee lovers simply as “arabica.”
The coffee that picked you up this morning is 600,000 years old. Researchers have found that the world's most popular type of coffee, known as arabica, emerged hundreds of thousands of years ago through natural crossbreeding of two other coffee species. Using genes from coffee plants around the world, scientists built a coffee plant family tree to better understand where it came from and how to better protect it from disease and climate change. These wild coffee plants originated in Ethiopia but...
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Little is known about the nature and evolution of Earth's continental crust before a few billion years ago because cratons, or stable swaths of the lithosphere more than 2–3 billion years old, are relatively rare.
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Viking women intentionally deformed their skulls 1,000 years ago, according to a new study. The researchers found the elongated skulls of three women from an island in the Baltic Sea.
Scientists from Flinders University have discovered three species of giant kangaroo that roamed Australia five million years ago, with the biggest growing to twice the size of a human.
Jennie Garth brought up a moment from the past that put a smile on her face. While promoting her new podcast she talked about a scene she shot for her sitcom What I Like About You in 2004.