Evolution

Science 4 min Butterfly Wing Stripes Create a Barber-Pole Illusion That Makes Them Hard to Catch As the wings flap, their patterns send false motion signals about where the butterfly is heading. A Nature stu... NA Nadia Rahim 1 Oct Science 4 min Bats First Took Flight in Europe, a Study of 103 Genomes and 44 Fossils Finds The Bat1K analysis puts the bat ancestor in late-Palaeocene Europe and rejects African, Asian and North Americ... NA Nadia Rahim 30 Sep Science 4 min A 120-Million-Year-Old Mammal From China Swam With Platypus Feet and a Coypu's Tail Dongoconodon platycauda, found in Liaoning, had webbed feet for pushing and a flattened tail for steering, and... NA Nadia Rahim 30 Sep Science 6 min Eight Years of Watching Decides What an Orangutan Eats Researchers followed 21 wild Sumatran orangutans from birth to independence across 4,700 hours. Those that wat... NA Nadia Rahim 26 Sep Science 4 min The Brain Is Two Organs That Never Merged One lineage builds the forebrain and midbrain, the other the hindbrain. Chromatin locks each in place, and the... NA Nadia Rahim 25 Sep