Australopithecus sediba, which lived approximately 2 million years ago, had the most humanlike hand anatomy, featuring a strong pinky muscle that suggests a capacity for precision gripping similar to later human species.Well – Tracy Kivell predicted that when we published and now

SOUND ON. You’re hearing the first howl of a dire wolf in over 10,000 years. Meet Romulus and Remus—the world’s first de-extinct animals, born on October 1, 2024. The dire wolf has been extinct for over 10,000 years. These two wolves were brought back from extinction using

A statement from our Chief Science Officer, Dr. Beth Shapiro, on the dire wolf project

"On the ancestry and evolution of the extinct dire wolf " biorxiv.org/content/10.110… - the Colossal Biosciences® dire wolf genome with Greg Gedman, Kathleen Pirovich, Beth Shapiro, Ben Lamm, & george church - a fun project that is a template for many other species...

Acartia copepods (fish food) are blooming and the colonial phytoplankton Phaeocystis is beginning to bloom inshore off Plymouth UK. It's spring. Soon we'll see spume if there is some rough weather. ZEISS Microscopy

DNA #sequencing has rapidly improved taxonomy of #benthic #cyanobacteria. Using a polyphasic approach, Moretto et al. have added a new genus to the growing list. Read about Floridanema—a taxa whose sequences were originally classified as Phormidium—here: doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13…

New online! Utilizing aquatic environmental DNA to address global biodiversity targets bit.ly/4iEdhcO

7 Sci-Hub Alternative Websites Paper you need to ask for payment & can't use sci-hub? You don't have to pay to read academic papers. These are 7 sci-hub alternative websites to download papers for free.

"The claims that taxonomy, however it is performed, is time-consuming and that it requires extensive expertise, due to a constantly evolving taxonomy, are questioned as good, even useful, criteria by which to judge a science" by David Williams onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

What is Fragilaria koensabbei and does it matter what it is called? (Meta)barcoding and the science of taxonomy - Williams - Journal of Phycology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

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Coming soon: The New Taxonomy: A Science Reimagined Edited By David M. Williams, Quentin D. Wheeler. routledge.com/The-New-Taxono…

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Looking forward to International Phycological Congress 2025 happening in Bohol Philippines on June 8-13, if any of my LinkedIN, X, BlueSky connections are attending would love to connect and talk. See you at IPC 2025. Will post updates here during the congress.

Diatoms are tiny but ecologically important eukaryotes. After over a million years of relative stasis, the lineage of diatoms exploded into diversity, with innovations in ecology, morphology, and life history still seen today. In PNAS: ow.ly/T3ja50W5xBq

See you later at #IPC2025 please follow @acrossphycoverse on IG and threads for content and scicomm and latest on #IPC2025 💧🌊🔬🦠

Our latest work is on the cover of nature (June 26, 2025)! Even more special: the stunning illustration was hand-drawn by first author Hao Sheng — a true scientist-artist.

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