Starting around 540 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion many animal phyla, including the freshest of them all—bivalves, came into existence. Within ~100 million…
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Leaping Squid
At bookofjoe there is a nice write up about squid flying out of water. The 2004 paper’s authors argue that “gliding” is too passive a term…
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An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! Olu et al. in PLoS One examine the…
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