Is your backside trying to tell you something? New research suggests that the shape of the GM — not just the size — could be ...

For over 200 years, there has been just one species of giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis. This unmistakable African animal is ...

Researchers have summarized the morphological characteristics of skin pigmented spots, along with factors driving their development. These information support that pigmented spots develop due to the ...

Early diagnosis and non-invasive monitoring of neurological disorders require sensitivity to elusive cellular-level alterations that emerge much earlier than volumetric changes observable with the ...

Climate change has a wide range of effects on wildlife. It affects seasonal migration, reproduction times, body size and mass ...

Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran Despite the extensive knowledge on dam-induced river adjustments, systematic comparisons and ...

The researchers report that hominin teeth, especially molars, became smaller and longer over millennia to accommodate a growing diet of tough grass-like plants known as graminoids and their ...

HANOVER, N.H. — Scientists have discovered something extraordinary about human ancestors: they were munching on tough, fibrous grasses for hundreds of thousands of years before their teeth evolved to ...

Long before evolution equipped them with the right teeth, early humans began eating tough grasses and starchy underground plants—foods rich in energy but hard to chew. A new study reveals that this ...

As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop a taste for grassy plants, especially grains and the starchy plant tissue ...

Abstract: Flexible and adaptive tracked robots show the capacity to navigate in unstructured terrain, with a passive adaption of the track or a morphology change for terrain adaptation. Extending the ...