The more things change.. “And I can see no reason why anyone should suppose that in the future the same motifs already heard will not be sounding still . . . put to use by reasonable men to reasonable ends, or by madmen to nonsense and disaster.” Joseph Campbell, 1969

An excellent definition, which also embraces extinction.

In 1938 Brazil was under a dictatorship called the Estado Novo (New State). Getúlio Vargas dissolved the National Congress, suppressed political opposition, and used state propaganda to promote nationalism and a cult of personality. Dark days indeed.

La Niña conditions generally lead to increased hurricane activity in the Atlantic, potentially resulting in more frequent and intense storms.

If you dig a bit - the species name boops (pronounced bow-ops) comes from the Greek words "bo" (meaning ox) and "ops" (meaning eye), referring to the relatively large eye compared to close relatives.

This level of intricate detail puzzled the older morphologists trying to understand how genes make traits. The solution is that genes code the instructions for building phenotypes.

When naming new species, there's a premium on brevity, beauty, and using terms related to distinctive phenotypes, habitats, or biogeographic areas. Like the elegant Iracema caiana, an electric fish named for the mythical Brazilian founding mother.

What is the source for the claim that coniferous trees release more oxygen than deciduous trees? I learned the reverse.

Every atom heavier than helium.

I agree, but cannot possibly like

If you read this article carefully it really does not refute the original claim about prefrontal cortex and disinhibition. If anything it just highlights how little was recorded about the case.

Funny, given ostracoderms don't even exist (not monophyletic) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracode…

After long and heated debate, current results suggest "Osteostraci" is an incorrect hypothesis. These clades before before the origin crown-Gnathostomata in the Silurian were vertebrates. bioone.org/journals/zoolo…