There is nothing so beautiful (and sometimes breathtaking) than observing creatures designed with the ability to undergo fluorescence, the biological emission of light (also called bioluminescence).1 Five scientists defined bioluminescence as “the chemical reaction between a substrate (luciferin) and an enzyme (luciferase) resulting in light emission in a living organism.”2 What was the origin of such an am... More...
by Brian Thomas, Ph.D., and Frank Sherwin D.Sc,(Hon)*
Recently, the prestigious Royal Society published a fascinating paper regarding partial haemoglobin preservation in dinosaur fossils. The study’s authors are from North Carolina State University—a world leader in this area. They wrote,
Still soft, hollow, flexible structures mo... More...
Supposedly, throughout the past hypothetical millions of years, sub-human primates became man, dinosaurs evolved into birds, and a group of mammals even returned to the oceans to become whales. But also according to evolution theory, the amazing horseshoe crab (order Xiphosura) “goes back practically unchanged to the Triassic period.”1 Natural selection2 and random mutations have not affected these chelicer... More...
To an ant, the world is written in scent—and they read it with uncanny precision. A single colony can recognize thousands of chemical cues that guide foraging, mark trails, and maintain order. Each ant relies on odor receptors in its antennae to decode this chemical language, with every nerve cell specializing in just one receptor type. But since the genome contains hundreds of receptor genes packed closely together, scientists have l... More...