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Smaller bodies, longer wings, earlier migrations: Untangling the multiple impacts of climate warming
When a University of Michigan-led research team reported last year that North American migratory birds have been getting smaller over…
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Surprising spider hair discovery may inspire stronger adhesives
IMAGE: Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) image of the bases of pretarsal (ie, on lowest part of leg) adhesive hairs. (A) On…
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New beetle-dwelling roundworm species discovered in Japan
IMAGE: Male (upper) and female (lower) adults of Cryptaphelenchus abietis view more Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan – Sometimes a…
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Fossil research shows woodlice cousins roamed Ireland 360 million years ago
IMAGE: Woodlice cousin Oxyuropoda ligioides in its 365 million years old continental Irish environment (Kiltorcan, Kilkenny, Ireland) view more Credit: Diane…
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Drone footage reveals social secrets of killer whales
IMAGE: Killer whales making contact with each other view more Credit: University of Exeter Killer whales have complex social structures including…
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Fungal spores from 250-year-old collections given new lease of life
Echoing through history by reviving fungal specimens originally preserved and described a flabbergasting quarter of a millenium ago by the…
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Some early land-dwelling amphibians evolved back into aquatic species
By Riley Black Illustration of the temnospondyl Prionosuchus plimmeri JAMES KUETHER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY One of the greatest transitions in evolutionary…
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Experiments show natural selection opposes sexual selection
IMAGE: An assassin bug approaching a male broad-horned flour beetle. view more Credit: University of Exeter Natural selection can reverse evolution…
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Popularity runs in families
HOUSTON – (June 7, 2021) – If identical versions of 20 people lived out their lives in dozens of different…
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Don’t like your greens? Blame it on Brassica domestication
IMAGE: Nine examples of domesticated Brassica rapa, a single species that humans have bred into root vegetables like turnips, leafy greens…
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