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Every Eye In The Animal Kingdom
Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...
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What ‘the world’s loneliest whale’ may be telling us about climate change
A mysterious whale that has long puzzled scientists may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing beneath ...
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‘A sign of hope’: New Southern Resident orca calf spotted in Puget Sound
A new orca calf was seen swimming with Southern Resident orcas, delighting Puget Sound residents and killer whale researchers ...
Six ape species' genomes sequenced telomere-to-telomere, providing open-access reference for human evolution studies
Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...
Gray whales are dying off the Pacific Coast again, and scientists aren't sure why
The whales are now headed north. In just the last two weeks, three gray whales have died in San Francisco Bay, one of which ...
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You Might Think of Shrimp as Bugs of the Sea. But a Remarkable Discovery Shows the Opposite: Bugs Are Actually Shrimp of the Land
Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...
How we used AI to trace the evolution of bacteria on Earth
Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.