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Bizarre Snake-Like Worm’s Secrets Revealed in CT Scans

Amphisbaenians: These cryptic creatures, resembling a cross between worms and snakes, have long puzzled scientists. With their vertebrae, scales, and sometimes tiny forearms, they lead subterranean lives, burrowing through soil and sand, preying on unsuspecting victims. Think of them as miniature versions of the colossal sandworms...

Fig Trees: Unraveling the Evolutionary Journey of a Diverse Plant Genus

Fig trees, with their remarkable diversity comprising over 850 species, have long fascinated scientists worldwide. In a groundbreaking study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team of researchers, including a plant biologist from Northwestern University, delved into the genetic...

How did evolution oversee optimal bone structure in deterring rodents?

Foot bones that are separate in small hopping rodents are fused in their larger cousins, according to a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of California, San Diego. Once evolution set jerboa bones on the path to fusing together, it...

Tungsten isotopes in seawater expose co-evolution of Earth’s mantle and continents

Andrea Mundl-Petermeier and Sebastian Viehmann of the Department of Lithospheric Research at the University of Vienna have demonstrated that a new geochemical archive which is named as 182Tungsten in banded iron formations, can be used to simultaneously trace the evolution of both the Earth's...

Tracing the evolution of interstellar molecules in Taurus molecular cloud-1

It has been confirmed that molecules could exist in the interstellar conditions. More than 200 molecules have been identified in the interstellar medium, with the development of radio astronomy in recent decades. It includes the large molecules like methanol, ethanol and urea. The Taurus molecular cloud-1 (TMC-1)...

Core overshoot constrained by the absence of a solar convective core and some solar-like stars

Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Aarhus University researchers have found a constraint of the convective core overshoot in low-mass stars and a correlation between the strength of overshoot and the stellar mass. The study was published in Monthly Notices of the...