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Category: Biology

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The First Warm-Blooded Fish Ever Discovered

Posted on May 15, 2015June 25, 2025 by Sciworthy

New research by NOAA Fisheries has revealed the opah, or moonfish, as the first fully warm-blooded fish that circulates heated blood…

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    People power in Kenya greatly improves local fisheries

    Posted on November 17, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

    Harnessing ‘people power’ to manage fisheries in the developing world has significantly benefited local communities and coral…

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      Competition between related species of lizards can drive evolution really fast

      Posted on October 27, 2014June 25, 2025 by Sciworthy

      Scientists working on islands in Florida have documented the rapid evolution of a native lizard species — in as little as 15 years…

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        Decline in Fish Stocks at Puget Sound Hurts Diving Birds

        Posted on October 18, 2014June 24, 2025 by Sciworthy

        Birds that dive for fish while wintering in the Salish Sea, located between British Columbia and Washington, are more likely to be in…

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          Climate change alters cast of winter birds

          Posted on October 17, 2014June 24, 2025 by Sciworthy

          Over the past two decades, the resident communities of birds that attend eastern North America’s backyard bird feeders in winter have…

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            New but really old genetic ‘operating system’ led to evolution of complex organisms

            Posted on October 7, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

            The evolution of worms, insects, vertebrates and other “bilateral” animals — those with distinct left and right sides…

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              Dinosaur–bird link Revealed By Wrist Bone Development

              Posted on October 1, 2014June 25, 2025 by Sciworthy

              How this wrist bone development happened has been the subject of much debate, with substantial disagreement between developmental…

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                Evolutionary arms race via ancient viruses in primate evolution

                Posted on September 29, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

                New findings by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggest that an evolutionary arms race between rival elements within…

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                  Individual human microbe community linked to education and gender

                  Posted on September 24, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

                  As scientists catalog the trillions of bacteria found in every nook and cranny of the human body, a new look by the University of Michigan…

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                    Colonization of new land drives the evolution of new hummingbird species

                    Posted on September 23, 2014June 25, 2025 by Sciworthy

                    The first comprehensive map of hummingbirds’ 22-million-year-old family tree — reconstructed based on careful analysis of 284 of…

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