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DNA Hints at Hidden Diversity in a Declining South Asian Frog
13+ hour, 11+ 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,…...
New subterranean amphibian species discovered in Maharashtra's Western Ghats
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'Impossible': This Tiny Animal Can Pass Radiation Damage to Its Offspring – And Repair It Over Generations
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (1294+ words) In the mosses and lichens of the world – the in-between places, where living conditions rapidly fluctuate – lives a tiny animal with an extraordinary survival skill. No, not tardigrades – it's their much weirder housemate, the bdelloid rotifer. Just like tardigrades, bdelloid…...
Time capsule: Looking for a few good wood frog
2+ day, 11+ 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…...
Anthropic Says Claude AI Blocked Biological Weapons Attempts
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (726+ words) For years, the threat of AI-assisted bioweapons development was largely a thought experiment debated in policy papers and congressional hearings. Anthropic’s new threat-intelligence report changes that framing, as AI Is Making state-linked attacks increasingly easier to execute. The company says…...
Eravikulam National Park has emerged as a thriving habitat for the endangered Resplendent Shrub Frog
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (301+ words) thehindu.com A recent comprehensive amphibian and reptile survey across the protected areas of the Munnar Wildlife Division found that Eravikulam National Park (ENP) near Munnar in Idukki has emerged as a thriving habitat for the endangered Resplendent Shrub Frog,…...
"The Selfish Gene" Marks 50 Years With New Korean Edition
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (182+ words) Richard Dawkins' science classic tops 1 million copies sold in South Korea Core arguments unchanged over five decades, anniversary edition features fresh translation Epilogue cites a poem written by ChatGPT, points to "another kind of evolution" British scientist Richard Dawkins' "The…...
Ice Age origins of one of humanity's oldest drug habits discovered
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (12+ words) Phys.org...
Munnar wildlife survey records new species of amphibians and reptiles
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (332+ words) A four-day survey in Idukki's protected areas identified 54 amphibian and 52 reptile species, including new undocumented species. A significant population of the vulnerable Anamudi bush frog, potentially facing extinction, was found in Eravikulam National Park, which may be its last refuge....
DNA-editing ‘pencils’ probe early human development
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (73+ words) A genome-rewriting approach known as adenine base editing offers a precise way to investigate gene function in early human embryos....