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The team used a microscopic worm, Caenorhabditis elegans (C.elegans), as they share many of the genes as humans, including longevity genes.

According to the researchers, hosts who swat at mosquitoes or perform other defensive behaviour may be abandoned, no matter how sweet they are.

The researchers found that models that can better describe the data favour sponges at the root of the animal tree.

The researchers say the population is highly vulnerable and its habitat is facing further pressure from development.

After one month of vagal nerve stimulation, the patient's attention, movements and brain activity significantly improved. 

Capinatator — whose name translates to grasping swimmer — lived 500 million years ago at a time when creatures started getting bigger and more diverse.

All of the animals underwent body scans producing detailed 3D images of their heads.

The scientists analysed data for the last 150 years, and found clear evidence of “changepoints” — points in time after which biological activity clearly increased — in the past half century.

The region has suffered from decades of overfishing and environmental changes, reducing the number of fish.

The similarity to hadrosaurs was immediately clear to the researchers when they opened CT scan files revealing the inner structures of those bones.

This is remarkable because the M haplogroup is effectively absent in modern Europeans but is extremely common in modern Asian, Australasian, and Native American populations.

People who start exercise programmes to lose weight often see a decline in weight loss (or even a reversal) after a few months.

The findings have implications for the carbon cycle, which is particularly important in light of climate change.

The latest GPS loggers allow the researchers to track not only the birds' overall routes, but also the sub-second time delays with which they react to each other while flying as a flock.

One myth dispelled by the results is that in earlier eras people went to bed at sundown. The subjects of the study stayed awake an average of three hours and 20 minutes after sunset.  

While you burn calories at the gym or while running in the neighbourhood park, our brain constantly works the opposite, looking for shortest route or choose to sit rather than stand.