Free Public Lecture to Recount Dramatic Expeditions That Unearthed History of...
The award-winning biologist and New York Times contributing science columnist Sean B. Carroll will deliver the John A. and Betty C. Moore Science as a Way of Knowing lecture at UC Riverside on Feb. 11,...
View ArticleAn Oxygen-poor ‘Boring’ Ocean Challenged Evolution of Early Life
A research team led by UC Riverside biogeochemists has filled in a billion-year gap in our understanding of conditions in the early ocean during a critical time in the history of life on Earth.
View ArticleLeading Insect-expert to Discuss Strategies for Inhibiting Evolution of Pest...
Fred Gould, one of the world’s top insect researchers, will give the 2013 Alfred M. Boyce Lecture at UC Riverside on April 1.
View ArticleResearch Shows Male Guppies Reproduce Even After Death
Performing experiments in a river in Trinidad, UC Riverside's David Reznick and colleagues have found that male guppies continue to reproduce for at least ten months after they die, living on as stored...
View ArticleLiving on Islands Makes Animals Tamer
A team of researchers from UC Riverside and two other universities has published a study showing that island lizards are "tame" as compared with their mainland relatives, confirming Darwin’s...
View ArticleWorld-Renowned Evolutionary Biologist to Discuss Evolution of Butterflies and...
Naomi Pierce, a world authority on butterflies, will give the 2014 Alfred M. Boyce Lecture at the University of California, Riverside on Monday, February 24.
View ArticleMotion and Muscles Don’t Always Work in Lockstep, Researchers Find in...
Unique research by UC Riverside biologists on wild anole lizards reveals new insights on how animals might adapt to their habitat and handle various forms of motion.
View ArticleFishy Business: An Exchange With Brazil
Three Brazilian students arrived in the United States on Jan. 23 to do research work in David Reznick's lab at UC Riverside.
View ArticleBiologists Link Sexual Selection and Placenta Formation
Biologists at UCRiverside have now found that sexual selection and “placentation” — the formation of a placenta — are linked.
View ArticleOverseas Trip Strengthens Undergraduates’ Interest in Biology
UC Riverside undergraduates Unique Bañares and Azeem Rahman spent eight weeks this summer researching fish in Brazil.
View ArticleTooth Loss in Birds Occurred About 116 Million Years Ago
Based on the fossil record, were teeth lost in the common ancestor of all living birds or convergently in two or more independent lineages of birds? UC Riverside biologists propose an answer.
View ArticleWhy Some Geckos Lose Their Ability to Stick to Surfaces
A UC Riverside-led study has found that evolution can downgrade or entirely remove adaptations a species has previously acquired, giving the species new survival advantages.
View ArticleResearch Shows Evolution in Real Time
In ongoing research to record the interaction of environment and evolution, a team led by UC Riverside biologist David Reznick has found new information illustrating the evolution of a population of...
View ArticleStudy Spells Out Why Some Insects Kill Their Mothers
UC Riverside's Kevin Loope explains why among social insects some queens and not others get killed by workers.
View ArticleTracking Life’s Evolution
How life’s evolution can be tracked using ancient lipid biomarkers preserved in petroleum and rocks is the topic of a free public lecture at UC Riverside.
View ArticleNew Book Hones in on Animal Performance
How animals function in their natural habitat and how evolution has shaped this function are the focus of a new book written by biologists at UC Riverside and the UMass Amherst.
View ArticleAnthropologist’s Book a Best Seller in South Korea
Anyone who has ever wondered how humans became meat eaters, why so many adults are lactose-intolerant, or the physiological impacts of walking upright will find intriguing answers in a new book by UCR...
View ArticleHow Gecko Feet Got Sticky
A UC Riverside-led team of biologists has found a gecko that they say offers a “snapshot” into the evolution of adhesion in geckos.
View ArticleResearchers Quantify in High Speed a Viper’s Strike in Nature for the First Time
The antagonistic predator-prey relationship is of interest to evolutionary biologists because it often leads to extreme adaptations in both the predator and prey. One such relationship is seen in the...
View ArticleScientists to Study Health of Plant-Bacteria Symbiosis in California
UC Riverside and Oregon State University have received a grant to study the health and sustainability of critical symbioses between plants and bacteria across California.
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