They Send Messages Via The Air
Volatile compounds drifting on the breeze. Electrical pulses firing under bark. Scientists are discovering that trees are anything…
How The Frogfish Perfected The Art Of Deep-Sea Fishing — A Biologist Explains
A new study reveals how frogfish mastered their eerie fishing trick: by rearranging their motor neurons. Here’s the…
Meet The Ancient Turtle That Outlived The Dinosaurs — And Is Still Laying Eggs Today
The leatherback sea turtle offers a rare look into prehistoric life and reveals how a lineage can survive…
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting
After the cessation of centuries-long eradication efforts throughout Europe, large carnivores have made a remarkable return over the…
Meet The Tree That Produces The Only True Blue Fruit On The Planet. Hint: It’s Not Actually Blue
The quandong’s fruit appear intensely blue, but without producing any pigment at all. Here’s this blue fruit evolved…
360 million-year-old sea predator found to be smaller and much stronger than once thought
About 360 million years ago, a huge armored fish patrolled a shallow sea that once covered what is…
It Was Trapped In Amber For 100 Million Years
A remarkably preserved crab trapped in amber is forcing scientists to rethink when amphibious crabs first evolved. Here’s…
Tardigrade communities in pristine, drained and restored pine mire forests | BMC Ecology and Evolution
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (CBD/COP/15/L.25). 2022. https://www.cbd.int/doc/decisions/cop-15/cop-15-dec-04-en.pdf Zak D, McInnes RJ. A call…
X-LDR: an atlas of linkage disequilibrium across species | Genome Biology
Overview of the studyDatasets The study surveyed human and nonhuman samples (Table 1). Human samples included 1KG samples, unrelated…
Evolutionary trends in the vertebral morphology of extant Delphinidae | BMC Ecology and Evolution
Disentangling the processes that drive the evolution of complex biological structures is a major aim of evolutionary biology.…
Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals
Kenrick, P., Wellman, C. H., Schneider, H. & Edgecombe, G. D. A timeline for terrestrialization: consequences for the…
Reconstruction of pectoral musculature in non-avialan paravians and basal birds: implications in the acquisition of flapping flight | BMC Ecology and Evolution
Of the pectoral musculature, we have selected the five muscles (i.e., mm. deltoideus scapularis/major, pectoralis, supracoracoideus, coracobrachialis brevis…