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Current Feed ContentWhen Asphalt and Dinosaurs Roamed the EarthYou may not be aware of it but a part of the highways and parking lots that you drive your car into may have been around for millions of years! Those roadways and pavements considerable history can be attributed to one if its key component: asphalt. Yes, the asphalt that is used to pave the roads that you drive through has indeed been around since the prehistoric times to merit a discussion. Asphalt has been dated back as early as the prehistoric period. Evidence of this claim can be...Fast evolution observed in butterfliesScientists reported that they had documented very fast evolution in the butterfly species Hypolimnas bolina. After infection by Wolbachia, the fraction of the population that was male dropped drastically to about 1% of the total population. However, after approximately ten generations (about a year) the male population had rebounded to about 39% of the overall population. In the case of H. bolina, infected females were unable to have male offspring since the male embryos died early on.... |
