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  • Mollusk Naming Progresses at a Snail’s Pace
  • What Tiny Orchid Seeds Reveal About Their Evolution
  • Rare 567‑million‑year‑old fossils refine our understanding of early animal evolution

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bioengineer.org /1 month ago

Mollusk Naming Progresses at a Snail’s Pace

In the world of scientific nomenclature, names often appear as neutral, objective terms—labels constructed to categorize and communicate about the diversity of life. Yet, in the de...

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botany.one /1 month ago

What Tiny Orchid Seeds Reveal About Their Evolution

New research on Central African orchids reveals that even the smallest seeds can preserve clues about how plants evolved and adapted over time.

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phys.org /1 week ago

Rare 567‑million‑year‑old fossils refine our understanding of early animal evolution

From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these animals evolved from earlier, simpler ancestors is one of t...

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scitechdaily.com /3 weeks ago

Darwin’s Islands Still Evolving: Giant Daisies Rewrite the Rules of Evolution

Galápagos plants show repeated evolution and emerging species, emphasizing evolution’s flexibility and active role today. The Galápagos Islands have long stood as a living laborato...

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phys.org /1 month ago

Botany's answer to Darwin's finches shows evolution in real time

A new study reveals how a remarkable group of plants on the Galápagos Islands developed their diverse leaf shapes—offering unique insight into evolution at the genetic level. A lar...

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journals.plos.org /1 month ago

Diversity patterns in terrestrial tetrapod clades are governed by equilibrium dynamics

by Felipe O. Cerezer, Antonin Machac, Jan Smyčka, Iñigo Rubio-López, Maxime Quétin, David Storch Large-scale patterns of species richness have been attributed to ecological limits...

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scienceblog.com /3 weeks ago

A New Moth Species Named for Pope Leo XIV Is a Plea to Protect What We Haven’t Yet Found

Somewhere in the naming of animals, science and theology have always made uneasy company. The Old Testament hands Adam his first job: go through every creature and give it a name....

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phys.org /1 month ago

Humans' closest invertebrate ancestors date back much further than thought

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonized almost all environments on Earth—from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our contin...

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phys.org /1 month ago

'Lliving fossils' nautilus and allonautilus shaped by depths and diets over 500 million years

Nautilus and Allonautilus cephalopods and their extinct ancestors have been drifting through the mesophotic zone of the ocean for more than 500 million years. Researchers have spen...

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journals.plos.org /1 month ago

Expansion of the geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase gene family underlies the evolution of terpenoid biosynthesis in...

by Natan Horáček, Ondřej Lukšan, Zarley Rebholz, Karel Harant, Radek Pohl, Lana Mutabdžija-Nedelcheva, Simon Hellemans, Daniel Jungwirth, Jan Křivánek, Anna Amirianová, Pavlína Kyj...

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phys.org /2 days ago

Turtles finally have a place in the tree of life thanks to an X‑ray study of South African fossils

The origin of turtles has always been a bit of a puzzle for scientists who study the evolution of animals. To this day, where they fit in the tree of life remains a highly debated...

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scienceandculture.com /3 weeks ago

Extraordinary Genetic Convergent Evolution in Moths and Butterflies

The practice of re-usage of functional parts in different systems is “ubiquitous” in human-designed technology just as convergence is “ubiquitous” in biology. Source

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phys.org /2 days ago

Forgotten museum fossil helps rewrite part of animal evolution

New research published in BMC Biology helps to fill in questions about the so-called "Furongian gap" from about 497 million to 485 million years ago, when paleontologists previousl...

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sciencealert.com /1 month ago

Evolution Keeps Making Crabs – But a Key Feature Has Only Evolved Once

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phys.org /1 day ago

Vast botanical data help solve Darwin's puzzle of why some exotic plants become pests

There's a conundrum that has perplexed biologists since Charles Darwin himself. Why do some exotic species take off as invasive pests while others don't?

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phys.org /1 month ago

Two whale groups separated by seas—but not by genes, study finds

A paper in Genome Biology and Evolution discovers that the endangered Mediterranean fin whale is not completely isolated from Atlantic groups. Both Atlantic and Mediterranean popul...

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scienceandculture.com /1 week ago

Addressing More Icons of Theistic Evolution

Professor Kuebler doesn’t acknowledge the pattern of explosions in the fossil record, but he does cite a supposed transitional form. Source

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phys.org /2 weeks ago

Strange 500-million-year-old marine fossils reveal a feeding strategy that still shapes oceans today

More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a myriad of marine animals, many of which have now becom...

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theconversation.com /2 days ago

Turtles finally have a place in the tree of life: X-ray study of South African fossils was a decider

Palaeontologists have got a clearer picture of where turtles fit in the animal kingdom, thanks to analysis of a southern African fossil.

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