Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – This mysterious plant fossil belongs to a family that no longer exists. This fossil, preserved roughly 47 million years ago, has a
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform – from bacteria to blue whales – shares the same genetic code. How and when this
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Decoding the DNA of the beaked hazelnut (Corylus cornuta), native to British Columbia, offers new insight into how Indigenous peoples stewarded plants
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The mystery of why life uses molecules with specific orientations has deepened with a discovery that RNA—a key molecule thought to have
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Mercury is highly toxic, becoming especially dangerous as methylmercury, where even a few billionths of a gram can severely harm a developing
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers suggest that the Denisovans, a newly identified hominin group, significantly influenced early human history through their interbreeding with modern humans. It
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international team of paleobiologists has compellingly demonstrated that the sinuses of ancient ocean-dwelling relatives of today’s crocodiles played a crucial role
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – 201.6 million years ago, one of the Earth’s five great mass extinctions took place, when three-quarters of all living species suddenly disappeared.
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A team of paleontologists working near Rangely, Colorado, has uncovered a new (or, more accurately, very old) state resident—a fossil mammal about
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Grasslands are experiencing rapid changes due to climate change. These ecosystems are particularly vulnerable as they face shifts in temperature and precipitation
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Paleontologists at the Centre for Palaeobiology and Biosphere Evolution at the University of Leicester have identified, for the first time, the evolutionary
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers have found an evolutionary setting where nucleic acids, the genetic building blocks of life, could self-replicate, potentially leading to life on
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have discovered a new species of predatory flatworm in North Carolina. Once identified, the researchers found that the species has also
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – With a new understanding of past life on the planet through fossils, a Mississippi State biological sciences faculty member is helping researchers
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Since the genetic code was first deciphered in the 1960s, our genes seemed like an open book. Image credit: GrumpyBeere – Pixabay
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers have found that the pterosaur likely used all four limbs to propel itself in the air, as seen in bats today.
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new study co-authored by Griffith University reports the discovery of extremely rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores, including
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists study how large dinosaurs could really T.rex get. A newresearch examines the maximum sizes of dinosaurs, using Tyrannosaurus rex as an
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new species of fossil snake unearthed in Wyoming is rewriting our understanding of snake evolution. The fossilized skeleton of the newly
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers in the College of Natural Resources and Environment in collaboration with the American Chestnut Foundation the genome of American chestnut trees
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists discovered three new species related to the chocolate plant, potentially leading to climate-resistant chocolate. The findings were published in Kew Bulletin.
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Two new Psilocybe species of psychoactive mushrooms have been discovered in southern Africa, bringing the total to six indigenous African species. Psilocybe
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Transparent sea cucumbers, bowl-shaped sponges, and pink sea pigs are some of the fascinating animals discovered during a deep-sea expedition to the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The capacity to regulate body temperature, a characteristic common to all contemporary mammals and avian species, may have originated among specific dinosaur