Evolution Diary

Using hairs from woolly mammoths, scientists have sequenced an extensive genome of these elephant cousins, a new report says. (…)

Humans, not climate change, were responsible for the extinction of giant “kangaroos” and other massive marsupials in Tasmania more than 40,000 years ago, according to new research. (…)

In a new study published in the online-open access journal PLoS ONE, Per Christiansen at the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, reports the finding that the evolution of skull and mandible shape in sabercats and modern cats were governed by different selective forces, and the two groups evolved very different adaptations to killing. (…)