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We all know about carcinization: shelled creatures with many legs tend to evolve into crabs.
But have you heard of mustelification?
It's a phenomenon where carnivorans develop slender bodies, short legs and small triangular heads.
In other words, they evolve into... See more
Astrobiology and Cancer.
For those wanting a deeper dive (by Charley Lineweaver) into some of his recent public outreach on The Atavistic Model of Cancer. https://t.co/3icJ3GOmTZ
Brett Hallx.comThe skin of a female labord’s chameleon (Furcifer labordi) is seen bursting into “chaotic technicolor patterns” in the last dying moments of its short life.
During death, nervous signals continue to transmit and to change the shape of the skin cells, creating the chaotic technicolor patterns that were captured.
viewsaddictinstagram.comFor instance, Choi et al. (2022) observed reproductive and cellular toxicity in the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis due to long-term exposure to PES microfibres, while Kim et al. (2021) found that exposure to both synthetic and natural microfibres caused gut damage and mortality in the brine shrimp Artemia franciscana .
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「生きた化石」とも呼ばれる「ヌタウナギ」知られざる生態を解明…通説覆す発表「50年近く生きることも」実は島根県沖の日本海が全国有数の漁獲高（BSS山陰放送） - Yahoo!ニュース
山口陽子助教（島根大学生物資源科学部）news.yahoo.co.jp
Bij natuurorganisaties en kreeftenvissers in de omgeving wordt gedacht dat staalslakken massale kreeftensterfte veroorzaken. Staalslakken zijn een restproduct uit de staalindustrie, in Nederland vooral afkomstig van Tata Steel. In onder meer de Ooster- en Westerschelde worden de grijze stenen gebruikt bij kustversterkingsprojecten.