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New Rust Toolkit Supercharges Sex Determination Studies in Non-Model
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (628+ words) A new open-source software package promises to transform how biologists hunt for the genetic switches that separate males from females in species with no reference genome....
Teeth Reveal Four Adaptive Zones Shaping Carnivore Evolution
1+ day, 42+ min ago (762+ words) For more than a century, paleontologists and evolutionary biologists have marveled at the way terrestrial mammalian carnivores keep reinventing the same body plans....
Fossil ribs reveal new secrets about ichthyosaur swimming technique
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (10+ words) Phys.org...
Pine pollen diet masculinizes Nile tilapia by altering sex genes and
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (104+ words) In a finding that could reshape one of aquaculture’s most controversial practices, researchers in Uganda and South Africa have shown that ordinary pine pollen—the fine, powdery substance produced in vast quantities by pine trees—can transform an all-female population…...
New multiproxy study suggests megaraptorids were agile apex predators
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (55+ words) Bioengineer.org Subject of Research: The relationship between skeletal pneumatization and body mass in megaraptorid theropod dinosaurs, revealing an evolutionary trend toward a gracile, air-filled model of large-bodied predation Subject of Research: Biology Article Title: Megaraptoridae: a gracile model of…...
Researchers find 'zombie-ant fungus' hiding in moss far from ant graveyards
1+ week, 1+ day ago (696+ words) "The fungus is present in mosses that no infected ant ever bit." A study in Brazil's Amazon rainforest found the so-called zombie-ant fungus in mosses, even in samples taken far from clusters of dead, infected ants known as ant graveyards....
Light pollution a detriment to critters
1+ week, 3+ day ago (291+ words) We people really haven’t been around for very long. Many of the tools and technologies we use in everyday life are incredibly recent and impactful additions to the environments around us. This may be especially true for electricity, which has…...
Greenland sharks can live so long that the oldest may have been swimming when the First Fleet reached Australia. Now researchers examining sharks more than a century old have found remarkably intact retinas—and DNA-repair genes that may preserve their sight through centuries in the Arctic’s dim depths.
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1488+ words) The evidence comes from intact retinal layers, active rod genes and blue-sensitive pigment, while the proposed role of DNA repair remains a mechanism to test rather than a proven longevity switch. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September…...
It looks like spaghetti, doesn???t have a gut or mouth??? and has been feeding on bioplastics for millions of years
1+ week, 5+ day ago (611+ words) Long before we invented biodegradable plastic, nature had its own version. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, have discovered that breaking down microbial bioplastics isn’t a skill reserved for microorganisms, like previously thought – but…...
3D scans of Tasmanian tiger’s skull reveal it had crocodile-style snapping jaws
1+ week, 5+ day ago (452+ words) A new study has found that Tasmanian tigers had an adaptation is found in no living carnivorous mammal....