A new hybrid fish created through surprise fertilization in a fish nursery was bred from two species that are more distant from one another than humans and mice on the evolutionary tree. A recent study, described in the journal Genes, describes how sperm from an American paddlefish was able to fertilize the eggs of a Russian sturgeon, giving rise to an unheard-of hybrid … [Read more...] about Scientists Are Astounded By A Hybrid Fish’s Birth Of Two Species That Last Coexisted As An Ancestor In The Jurassic
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Melting Glaciers On The Tibetan Plateau May Release Newly Discovered Bacterial Species
The climate crisis threatens to disrupt the diversity of bacteria living in the Tibetan Plateau's glaciers. Hundreds of new bacteria species have been discovered in the glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau, indicating that we have only scratched the surface of the microbial world. However, with climate change threatening this valuable environment, these new findings raise new … [Read more...] about Melting Glaciers On The Tibetan Plateau May Release Newly Discovered Bacterial Species
A Brand-New Species Was Just Discovered Evolving In Front Of Our Eyes
Another creationist myth has been debunked, but this is unlikely to stop it from being spread in the future. Under the watchful eyes of researchers able to closely examine it, a new species emerged faster than anyone had anticipated. It seems fitting that the species is a Galapagos finch, one of the subfamilies essential to Darwin's revolutionary discovery. Finches have … [Read more...] about A Brand-New Species Was Just Discovered Evolving In Front Of Our Eyes
Euspinolia Militaris Is A Species Of Wasp In The Family Mutillidae
The Panda Ant is a most unusual species of insect. Their name derives from the obvious resemblance to a panda in its markings. This remarkable insect is not even an ant. The Panda Ant is actually a variety of wingless wasp! Very little is known of this little seen insect. They have been seen to bring down animals as large as cows with only a few dozen stings. The Panda Ant … [Read more...] about Euspinolia Militaris Is A Species Of Wasp In The Family Mutillidae
An Anthropologist Believes That Ancient Human Species May Still Exist In Flores Island’s Forests.
Archaeologists searching for evidence of modern human migration from Asia to Australia discovered a small, relatively complete skeleton of an extinct human species known as Homo floresiensis on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003. After the little, breakfast-guzzling critters from J.R.R. Tolkein's The Hobbit, it became known as the Hobbit. The species was assumed to … [Read more...] about An Anthropologist Believes That Ancient Human Species May Still Exist In Flores Island’s Forests.