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The evolution of choice and arguing about it
5+ hour, 33+ min ago (628+ words) When did our ability to communicate advance beyond grunting and gesturing? Clues to the genesis of our linguistic abilities may lie in extraordinary choices by ordinary hominins The question is when language emerged, evolving beyond animal modes of communication such…...
New Rust Toolkit Supercharges Sex Determination Studies in Non-Model
3+ hour, 56+ 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....
DNA Hints at Hidden Diversity in a Declining South Asian Frog
9+ hour, 8+ min ago (681+ words) Across the flooded fields and scrubby foothills of South Asia lives a frog that most people, including many biologists, would struggle to tell apart from its close relatives. The burrowing frog Sphaerotheca maskeyi, a medium-sized member of the family Dicroglossidae,…...
Why is this 560-million-year-old fossil so rare?
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (648+ words) One of the oldest known 3D animal fossils dating back 560 million years has been found in a sheep field. The astonishing discovery of the creature that looked like a "goo-filled bag" when it was alive was made in northern Norway. Scientists…...
New subterranean amphibian species discovered in Maharashtra's Western Ghats
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The tadpoles that don't care about their siblings
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (264+ words) Kyoto, Japan -- Amphibian larvae -- often known as tadpoles -- exhibit a behavior known as social aggregation, where they gather together as a way to avoid predators. These interactions are evidence of their association preferences, or their tendency to recognize members of…...
Opinion | How the melting glaciers are unlocking ancient superbugs we’ve never seen before
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (271+ words) Do not mistake glaciers for mere frozen lakes. They are time capsules holding Earth’s history. Snow that fell thousands of years ago compacts into ice; in doing so, it traps whatever was suspended in the atmosphere at the time: dust,…...
Time capsule: Looking for a few good wood frog
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (691+ words) Note: This article was originally published 30 years ago, on Aug. 7, 1996. Brian Barnes and author Ned Rozell have since retired from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and scientists now know that the wood frog’s internal body temperature can dip to 0.6 degrees…...
Diverse Forests Adapt Better to Heatwaves and Droughts | Earth And Environmental Sciences
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (349+ words) Diverse Forests Adapt Better to Heatwaves and Droughts Labroots Diverse Forests Adapt Better to Heatwaves and Droughts How can tree diversity combat climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team…...
Researcher describes two previously unknown insect species
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (211+ words) Sites’ work adds to decades of research at the university documenting Earth’s biodiversity through taxonomy and field exploration image: Robert Sites view more An entomologist at the University of Missouri has discovered two saucer bug species previously unknown to science,…...