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…
Artificial permanent ponds are valuable for bats: a comparison with temporary ponds in a Mediterranean region | BMC Ecology and Evolution
Comparison between permanent and temporary ponds This study assesses the bat use of permanent vs temporary ponds by…