Jasna Hodžić

Jasna Hodžić

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Dr. Jasna Hodžić holds a Ph.D. in ecology and is a writer and editor based out of the western United States.

Pando
Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.
ancient dna
Advances in ancient DNA analysis gave researchers a new way to trace the movements of peoples across Eurasia.
evolution
Organisms respond in similar ways to similar circumstances.
The 557-million-year-old specimen challenges the theory that animal body plans were laid out in the Cambrian explosion.
t. rex
Predatory dinosaurs with big skulls tend to have tiny arms. Researchers propose there might be a direct link between those traits.
dinosaurs
New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?
human evolution
Fossils of Australopithecus in a South African cave are one million years older than previously thought. This challenges the consensus that humans first evolved in East Africa.
crayfish
All marbled crayfish descended from a single clone discovered in Heidelberg, Germany in 1995. 
dinosaurs warm-blooded
The long-standing debate over whether dinosaurs were more like birds or lizards is drawing to a close.
animal emotions
We already know animals feel emotions, and that they can understand humans' emotions. But can they understand each other's emotions?
A recent advance in 3D imaging techniques helped spark the biggest ever discovery of North American cave art.
climate change human evolution
The simulation gave researchers some of the first concrete data linking climate change to human evolution and speciation.
ichthyosaur
They were more like blue whales with a mean bite.
There is strong evidence that invertebrates are sentient beings.
zombie
An emerging field studies parasites that take over the nervous system of a host.
mammal species
There may be thousands of undiscovered mammal species in the world. Most are small, like bats and rodents, but there could be primates, too. A lifeline for Bigfoot enthusiasts?
Cambrian explosion
Scientists across a range of disciplines have helped solve Darwin's dilemma.