Why are alcohol and opioids addictive, but not psilocybin or menthol? Why do fungi and plants make such chemicals in the first place? Why are many plants toxic to cats? Why did a Mexican yam lead to "The Pill"? Why did the Spice Trade hasten the Opioid Crisis? For answers...👇

🦍 Dive into the playful world of great apes with Dr. Isabelle Laumer! Discover how young apes tease and laugh, just like human infants. Tune in now! talkingapes.org/posts/isabelle/ Photo ©GEllis/GLOBIO #GreatApes #AnimalBehavior #Podcast #TuneInNow

A mummified sabretooth cat (Homotherium latidens) cub has been found in Siberia!

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🇧🇷Trinca-ferro 🌎Saltator similis O trinca-ferro é uma ave passeriforme da família Thraupidae, sendo um dos pássaros silvestres mais apreciados pelo brasileiro, especialmente pelo seu canto 📷 Marcelo Monteiro

Abeja o mosca, siempre es un mal día si te pilla un Thomisus onustus (Thimisidae) camuflado en una flor a no ser que seas la araña claro ;)

🇧🇷Gavião-caramujeiro 🌎Rostrhamus sociabilis O gavião-caramujeiro é uma ave accipitriforme da família Accipitridae. Conhecido também como caramujeiro e gavião-de-aruá (Amapá e Paraíba). 📷 Raphael Kurz - Aves do Sul

Primeiro dia do primeiro congresso brasileiro de biologia evolutiva! Animada em participar da fundação dessa sociedade 100% brasileira 💚🍾🇧🇷

Just sharing a few quick insights from a recently published paper in BiologyLetters on the drivers behind the accumulation of phylogenetic knowledge across tetrapods 🐸🐍🐦🦥 Follow the thread 🧵(1/7). José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho UFPB unicampoficial mariormoura.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/pap…

Melhor parte de qualquer congresso: sessão de posters (só empata com as festas)

"Feather mites have been known to consume microbes from their host feathers, but here, for the first time, we demonstrate that they selectively consume feather-degrading microbes from feathers...." Amanda Matthews 🪽 Read the full paper here: buff.ly/3OmCOKN

"Our results reveal that whenever handwriting movements are included as a learning strategy, more of the brain gets stimulated, resulting in the formation of more complex neural network connectivity...typewriting do[es] not activate...networks the same way that handwriting does."

🌳A pesquisadora estuda como as árvores morrem, o que determina o tempo de vida delas, e o que influencia a resiliência de cada espécie. Esse é o objeto de estudo do seu pós-doutorado na Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA).

🇧🇷Tiê-sangue 🌎Ramphocelus bresilia Conservação:Pouco Preocupante Seu nome científico significa: do (grego) rhamphos = bico; e koilos, këlis, kelas = côncavo, marcado; e do (latim) bresilia = referente ao Brasil, brasileiro 📷 Leonardo Casadei

A frugivorous bird's eye-view of Pleistocene landscapes: the way #birds disperse #seeds in fragmented anthropogenic landscapes is congruent with an ecological & evolutionary history with open vegetation created & maintained by megaherbivores Universidad de Cádiz besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

such a nice paper on what drives sexual size dimorphism across a huge number of tetrapods Gopal Murali NatureEcoEvo doi.org/10.1038/s41559…

Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: ow.ly/5vat50UwZAo

Pollination in walnuts and pecans occurs through a genetically controlled temporal flowering dimorphism. Two distinct morphs alternate their phases of male and female flowering across the season, promoting outcrossing that has maintained a stable equilibrium throughout tens of

This LA fire is the most destructive in US history. - 29,000 acres destroyed - 57 billion in economic damage - 180,000 people evacuated Here’s EVERYTHING you need to know about the fire:

fizeram um ensaio fotográfico de um sapo pitanga com uma pitanga e isso ja alegrou o meu dia