Dog coat patterns hold clues to their wolf ancestors

Dogs share one of their coat patterns, dominant yellow, with arctic white wolves, research finds.

Andy Fell-UC Davis • futurity
Aug. 13, 2021 ~5 min

Scent is key to how bats and peppers co-evolved to survive

New research reveals the role scent played in how bats and pepper plants in Central America co-evolved to help each other survive.

Andrea Godinez-U. Washington • futurity
Aug. 12, 2021 ~8 min


Lizards with sticky toepads rule the trees

"Toepads are essentially a biological superpower for lizards to access new resources that lizards without toepads cannot."

Talia Ogliore-WUSTL • futurity
Aug. 6, 2021 ~6 min

Tool could predict drug combos that spark antibiotic resistance

A new framework may suggest which drug combinations would speed up, slow down, or even reverse antibiotic resistance.

Morgan Sherburne-Michigan • futurity
July 30, 2021 ~7 min

Why your puppy ‘gets you’ but a wolf pup won’t

Dog puppies get your gist when you point at a ball, but wolf puppies don't. It suggests domestication changed not only how dogs look, but their minds, too.

Robin Smith-Duke • futurity
July 13, 2021 ~7 min

Yukon fossils reveal 120 million years of evolution and O2

A trove of fossils from the Yukon sheds light on the time when land plants and complex animals first evolved on Earth.

Josie Garthwaite-Stanford • futurity
July 13, 2021 ~9 min

Fossil deposit full of juveniles is like a ‘paleonursery’

A fossil deposit contains exceptionally preserved fossils of soft-bodied, juvenile organisms from the Cambrian period.

A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn State • futurity
July 8, 2021 ~8 min

In hotter climates, male dragonflies lose their trademark style

In hotter climates, male dragonflies don't develop their trademark wing pigmentation. That could make it harder to find a mate, researchers say.

Talia Ogliore-WUSTL • futurity
July 6, 2021 ~6 min


G4s: Another functional bit of the human genome?

Some regions of the human genome where the DNA can fold into unusual 3D structures called G-quadruplexes show signs that they are preserved by natural selection.

Sam Sholtis-Penn State • futurity
July 1, 2021 ~8 min

Weird ‘beard-less’ warbler holds clues to plumage genes

A "very weird" hybrid bird confirms suspected links between genes and color patterns in two species of warblers, report researchers.

Gail McCormick-Penn State • futurity
June 29, 2021 ~8 min

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