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Found with burnt coconut in 2004, this Sri Lankan mouse finally gets its scientific name 22 years later!
4+ hour, 46+ min ago (403+ words) A piece of burnt coconut helped scientists uncover a species new to science in Sri Lanka. The discovery began more than 2 decades ago, when researchers trapped two unusual mice in the Knuckles Mountain Range. The animal has now been formally…...
Transposable Elements Drive the Birth of Vast Satellite DNA Repertoires in
5+ hour, 18+ min ago (597+ words) The genomes of true frogs have long puzzled geneticists. Amphibians are famous for carrying some of the largest and most repetitive genomes among vertebrates, and yet the detailed architecture of their repetitive DNA has remained poorly explored compared with mammals,…...
Which Animal Has the Longest Pregnancy? The Answer May Surprise You
15+ hour, 8+ min ago (325+ words) Pregnancy can last just a few weeks in some animals, while others carry their young for many months. But there is one animal whose pregnancy is so long that it can stretch to almost two years. So, which animal has…...
Enzymes and Fermentation Team Up to Strip Bad Flavors from Mealworm Protein
14+ hour, 30+ min ago (675+ words) Edible insects have been heralded as one of the most sustainable protein sources on the planet, but there has always been an awkward catch: many people simply do not like the way they smell or taste....
New subterranean amphibian species discovered in Maharashtra's Western Ghats
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In the late 1990s San Miguel Island held 15 foxes, down from about 450; after 44 golden eagles were relocated and 226 captive-bred foxes returned, the island counted roughly 322 in 2024
1+ day, 10+ min ago (388+ words) Fifteen foxes. That was the count on San Miguel Island at the end of the 1990s, on an island that had carried about 450 of them, a population so small that biologists could have known every animal by name and very nearly…...
Did You Know... The Zombie “Snails”!
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (23+ words) Discover Leucochloridium, the strange parasitic flatworm that infects land snails, creates colourful pulsing eyestalks, and uses birds to complete its bizarre life cycle....
Zebrafish relatives as models for functional comparative genetics and genomics - Nature Reviews Genetics
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (1630+ words) Nature Reviews Genetics (2026) Cite this article Irion, U. & Nusslein-Volhard, C. Developmental genetics with model organisms. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 119, e2122148119 (2022). Liberali, P. & Schier, A. F. The evolution of developmental biology through conceptual and technological revolutions. Cell 187, 3461–3495 (2024). Hilgers, L. & Schwarzer, J. The untapped potential of medaka…...
Under pressure: How a deep-sea protein adapts to an extreme environment
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (510+ words) Researchers uncover the molecular strategy that enables PoXeR, a light-driven protein found in deep-sea microorganisms, to adapt to extreme pressure A research team, led by Professor Gaku Fukuhara of Kyushu University’s Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering (IMCE), investigated this…...
Evolutionary home advantage: Study reveals adaptation to be surprisingly local
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (890+ words) Universität Bern Evolutionary home advantage: Study reveals adaptation to be surprisingly local A research team from the University of Bern has shown in a large-scale field experiment that populations of the same fish species can be much more fine-tuned to…...