Evolution Diary

Nashville, Tennessee - A United States neurobiologist studying a sensory organ on a little-known semi-aquatic mole has discovered that mammals can smell underwater. (…)

In the animal kingdom cooperation is crucial for survival. Predators hunt in prides and prey band together to protect themselves. Yet no other creature cooperates as successfully as we do. (…)

The giraffe’s elongated neck has long been used in textbooks as an illustration of evolution by natural selection, but this common example has received very little experimental attention. (…)

4 Arnoux’s Beaked Whales observed from Polarstern expedition
On the 17th of December, Meike Scheidat & Linn Lehnert, the whale watchers on board of Polarstern, made a remarkable cetaceans sighting: Four Arnoux’s Beaked Whales (Berardius arnuxii), observed from the helicopter. (…)

Richard Dawkins, author of Ancestor’s Tales and The God Delusion, writes about the Komodo Dragon’s virgin birth being possible through selfing, similar to those in plants but not the same as cloning. (…)