Life copes: The horses that adapted to massive climate change in just 800 years
… In evolutionary terms, it’s a blink. Around 1200-1400AD a bunch of people bought a few domestic horses to far east freezing Siberia, where the temperature sometimes falls below -70. Somehow the...
View ArticleLife adapts — fish evolved from salt to fresh water in just fifty years
In 1964 an earthquake made some parts of the Pacific into ponds on a few islands. Fifty years later and the fish in those ponds are now freshwater fish. Apparently the genes for dealing with that sort...
View ArticleCorals use epigenetic tricks to adapt to warmer and “more acidic” water
… After half a billion million years of climate change, I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that life on Earth (and specifically corals) have so many ways to cope with the climate changing. After all,...
View ArticleScientist create, then cure, baldness, wrinkles and some aging in mice
Here’s a tantalizing bit of gene research. Scientists were able to switch off a central gene in the nucleus of a mouse cell. That in turn meant the mouse’s mitochondria started failing (I’m going to be...
View ArticleAdapting to climate change “it’s in our genes”— Another reason to ignore the...
Two different models predict two totally different futures. On the left, catastrophic extinction. On the right, happy bats. Click to enlarge Yesterday a UN supercommittee of 145 scientists from 50...
View ArticleRecord breaking DNA shows Mastodons roaming a hot North Greenland 2 million...
By Jo Nova Kap København is almost the closest point there is to the North Pole on dry land. The survival of some DNA for two million years is astounding all of itself — breaking the record for oldest...
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