The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Convergent evolution is the concept by which organisms independently develop mechanisms to adapt to the same, or similar, selective pressures. Classic examples include the evolution of camera-like ...

BEIJING, 10 October (BelTA - Xinhua) - Bats and toothed whales are distant groups, yet both have independently developed the ability to perceive their environment through echolocation. A Chinese ...

Modern toothed whales have two major physical differences from their baleen brethren (apart from the whole teeth thing): they use echolocation, and they have asymmetrical skulls. It was thought that ...