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Scientists Publish First Complete Connectome of an Adult Male Fruit Fly

The open dataset maps 166,700 neurons, revealing sex-specific circuits that reroute sensory signals into distinct male and female behaviors.

Young Chimpanzees Develop Population-Specific Vocal Dialects

Thylacine Skull Shows Unique Bite Adaptation, Not a Wolf‑Like Predator

New Studies Recast Thylacine as Small‑Prey Pouncer, Not Wolf‑Like Predator

Capuchin Monkeys Hunt More Small Vertebrates When Fruit Runs Low

New 324‑Million‑Year‑Old Fossil Rewrites How Insects Moved Onto Land

Salk Toolkit Targets Nearly All Octopamine and Tyramine Neurons in Fruit Fly Brain

Study Links Bat Immune Gene Duplications to Longevity and Cancer Resistance

Scientists Identify 13 Fatty Acids That Serve as Cats’ Urine ID Tags

Researcher Proposes Folding Australopithecus and Paranthropus into an Expanded Genus Homo

Male Neanderthal Hips Resemble Modern Human Female Pelvises

Study Finds Possible 236-Million-Year-Old Evidence of Live Birth in Mammal Ancestor

Study Finds Archaeopteryx Took Off With a Series of Hops

Choice Overload Makes Female Treefrogs Slower and Less Accurate at Picking Mates

Study Finds Dinosaurs Were Barred From Evolving into Very Small Body Sizes

Study Proposes Two Independent Origins of Free‑Living Cells

Darwin Vindicated: Alpine Saxifraga Confirmed as Carnivorous

Review Links Cambrian 'Faecal Revolution' to Rise of Animal Life

Study: Energetic Model Says Dinosaurs Should Have Been Much Smaller

New ARG Method Finds ‘Ghost’ and Super‑Archaic Hominin DNA in All Humans