What Chicago’s rodents are teaching us about Evolution
Can animals evolve fast enough to keep up with the changing city? A new study on chipmunks and voles in Chicago digs deep—literally...
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How fish guts help shape the ocean’s chemistry
The surprising role of deep-sea osmoregulation in the marine carbon cycle When we think of ocean carbon cycling, our minds tend to drift...
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We were wrong! Coelacanth is reshaping our evolutionary story
For decades, the African coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) has been hailed as a “living fossil,” a rare window into the deep evolutionary past of...
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Spider or a Peacock?
Maratus volans is a member of the group known as peacock spiders. Males of this species courts females by expanding a pair of...
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Brittle stars stealing from Jelly fishes!
Occassionally, brittle stars are seen in the body of jelly fishes. Interesting fact is the food sources of brittle stars seems to be...
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Meninges, the protector of brain
The function of the meninges is to cover and protect the brain. It also encloses and protects the vessels that supply the brain....
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Long horned orb-weaver
The long horned orb-weaver, Macracantha arcuata, is also known as the curved spiny spider. It has two long spines extend from its sides....
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Morphology of Limulus
Horseshoe crabs live primarily in and around shallow coastal waters on soft sandy or muddy bottoms. They occasionally come onto shore to mate. Horseshoe...
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