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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....
Study finds potato-heavy diets reshaped Indigenous Andean DNA for starch digestion
3+ week, 3+ day ago (543+ words) "Our metabolic pathways are not simply a product of that Paleolithic past." Potatoes have fed civilizations for thousands of years, but they have done more than that. Scientists have said the crop may have helped shape human biology, giving Indigenous…...