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New fossil discovery by Liu et al. (2025) suggests the vermiform body of Ecdysozoans (arthropods, nematodes, etc.) evolved from pouch-like ancestors. This Lower Cambrian embryo of Saccus from China enhances our understanding of their origins. Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Move over mitochondria, a new organelle called the nitroplast is here. In a Science study from earlier this year, researchers report that a nitrogen-fixing organelle has been identified in a marine alga. Learn more in this #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/3BLqXDo

Research 2024 #YearInReview 🔦 Millennia-old mystery about insects and light at night got a new explanation when Yash Sondhi and a team of scientists used new tech to examine old questions. Spoiler: They aren’t really mistaking it for the moon Story floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/millen…

Abductive reasoning, a topic rarely taught in science classrooms~ youtube.com/watch?v=B0622h…

🌟 Happy Birthday to my hero, Alfred Russel Wallace, the brilliant co-discoverer of Natural Selection alongside Darwin! 🎉 A visionary whose contributions shaped how we understand life on Earth. 🌿🌍

Dragonflies use “crazy turning” to dry themselves off after a cooling dip in water. Learn more: scim.ag/40BnjWs News from Science

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Acceptance of species delimitation/description based on #barcode sequence clustering thresholds is growing yet not without controversy. This paper focuses on the topic while addressing prospects and challenges for #DNAbarcoding in #biodiversity research: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

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Had really an amazing time at the #SLS_ATL_Lepidoptera_Conference_2025! Lots of brilliant minds, diverse ideas, and passionate discussions. It's always inspiring to connect with researchers and enthusiasts with different ideas and approaches to develop our knowledge on Leps!

Great work by Ryan St Laurent providing a comprehensive subfamily classification of the large moth family Notodontidae! Smithsonian NMNH

A Milestone for Moth Diversity in India! Young & dynamic scientists of ZSI have made a remarkable contribution to Taxonomy with the publication of a comprehensive Catalogue of the Erebidae moth family in the journal of Zootaxa. #ZSI #MothDiversity #IndianFauna #Lepidoptera

I experienced the same when I started learning the beauty of abductive reasoning that totally changed and reshaped the dimension of my scientific investigation!

'What are species?' has long lacked a scientific consensus due to a narrow focus on this single taxon, neglecting the more relevant question-What are taxa? This issue is even worsened by systematics often straying from the broader goals of scientific inquiry (See Fitzhugh 2015)

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All these Brunia gibonica (Černý, 2009) were caught on the same screen, same night; yet their apical black markings range from bold to nearly gone. Driven by Climate? or Host plants? It’s fascinating to see how much variation exists in a single species.