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evolution:

winners and losers

Category: evolution

Folks at UCLA have created a list of evolutionary winners and losers. They've based this list on a species' ability to diversify over time. At the top of the winners list are birds (with 9,000 species) and mammals (with 5,400...

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Epic Guinness Evolution Commercial

Category: Commercial

How we missed this the first time around I will never know, nor forgive our readers for. Enjoy! Thanks to Mike McElwain for sending along. yitb...

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The Evolution of Yarn

Category: mollusk

There's no interesting news. It appears all the world's animals have finally been discovered, their strange mating behaviors documented, and their interest in acting all crazy for YouTube evaporated. But we are undaunted. We will make the logical transition and...

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Domesticating Foxes (via Greg Laden's Blog)

Category: evolution

Fascinating video from the PBS special, Dogs that Changed the World, on the changes that took place when foxes were bred for tameness in the former Soviet Union. This was originally posted on Greg Laden's Blog but I had to...

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Riddle of the Y-Larvae

Category: crustacean

Y-larvae revert from fairly complex organisms into parasitic slug monsters.

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Rapid Reptile Evolution

Category: evolution

Scientists discover lizards have undergone remarkable evolutionary changes in only 36 years

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Lured out of the Gene Pool

Category: fish

A fascinating new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the impact of human fishing may be reducing the fitness of fish populations overall. It may also explain why your grandfather insists that "the...

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First Flight, then Sonar

Category: echolocation

New research suggests bats evolved to fly before echolocation.

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What Do You Think? Kin Selection: Fact or Fiction?

Category: evolution

Why do some creatures forgo their own reproduction to help their relatives survive and reproduce? While we all might like to believe that naked mole rats really do care and are thus willing to sacrifice their creepy little lives for the good of the colony, the true answer probably has more to do with gene frequency across generations and evolution.

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Where Have All the Monster Bugs Gone?

Category: prehistoric

Although most humans probably do not lament the disappearance of dog-sized insects, a handful of scientists do. These scientists obviously don't watch the same movies we do. Recently, a group of researchers from Argonne National Laboratory's Advanced Photon Source along...

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