Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

The evolutionary adaptations that allowed ancient pterosaurs to grow to enormous sizes have been pinpointed for the first ...

“Adaptations to a terrestrial lifestyle documented for sebecids and the chronology of West Indian fossils strongly suggest that they reached the islands in the Eocene-Oligocene through ...

In terrestrial mammals, ... complexity in the epidermal keratin composition due to so-called "alternative splicing" keratin K10 mRNA and adaptations of keratin gene sets in terrestrial mammals.

Periods of high extinction on Earth, rather than evolutionary adaptations, ... Extinction is key to terrestrial vertebrate diversity, new research reveals Date: November 23, 2015 ...

The results, published in Nature, show that plants in arid zones adopt many different adaptation strategies ... They cover 45% of the Earth’s terrestrial area and are home to a third of the ...

In order to examine the marine-terrestrial transition and resulting biological adaptations, the researchers investigated talitrids, a group of small crustaceans that live in a variety of regions ...

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Atoms4Climate Adaptation and Mitigation: Non-Power Technologies For the Terrestrial Landscape. Project Type. Technical Cooperation Project . TC Region. Interregional . Project Code INT5159 Approved ...