Oldest known sex chromosome emerged 248 million years ago in an octopus ancestor ( www.livescience.com )
Will Plants Ever Fertilize Themselves? ( www.newyorker.com )
Hippos can launch themselves airborne for split seconds at a time, surprising scientists ( www.businessinsider.com )
[Veritasium] What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About Color ( www.youtube.com )
Found this moth today
photo of a fuzzy palm sized moth...
Insecticides Made of RNA Could Offer a Safer and More Targeted Weapon Against Crop Pests ( www.science.org )
What can bulls tell us about men? ( ethz.ch )
Researchers Dispute Claim That Ancient Whale Was Heaviest Animal Ever ( www.nytimes.com )
(sans paywall courtesy of the only reason I have a bluesky account)
TIL about spider number 16, the longest lived spider on record, and the decades long study by researcher Barbara York Main ( en.wikipedia.org )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/21700185...
Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together for First Time in 221 Years ( web.archive.org )
Social anxiety disorder-associated gut microbiota increases social fear ( www.pnas.org )
A chemical signal in human female tears lowers aggression in males ( journals.plos.org )
Some crustaceans have evolved a way to make silk ( www.science.org )
New Patient: EL2401 Female Otter Pup (Name TBD)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/23517604...
Recently increased prevalence of the human median artery of the forearm: A microevolutionary change ( onlinelibrary.wiley.com )
Meet the smallest animal known to spread seeds with its poop ( www.science.org )
Linking environmental influences, genetic research to address concerns of genetic determinism of human behavior ( phys.org )
Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems--Simple Cells Can Do It ( www.scientificamerican.com )
Just One Molecule Allows Us to See Millions More Colors Than Our Pets ( www.sciencealert.com )
We’ve never understood how hunger works. That might be about to change. ( www.technologyreview.com )
How a Parasitic Worm Forces Praying Mantises to Drown Themselves ( www.scientificamerican.com )
Vancouver Aquarium rescues weeks-old sea otter ( www.youtube.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24113865