Devin Reese
This Blind Cave-Dwelling Fish May Be the Key to Understanding Brain Evolution
Its life in the darkness could shine a light on other neural rewiring
Was the Saber-Toothed Cat Doomed by Its Signature Fangs?
Five million years of evolutionary history were hidden in a museum drawer
Inside the Brain of a 319-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fish
It paves the way for understanding how ray-finned fishes came to dominate Earth’s oceans
Four New Chameleon Species Found in Tropical “Sky Islands”
Two of which are named after pioneering female scientists
How Fruit Flies Manage Their Exceptionally Long Sperm
If human sperm were a foot long, fruit fly sperm would span three football fields
Orangutans Seek Out Medicinal Plants
In fact, they’re some of the same plants used pharmacologically by local Indigenous people
How City Rats Are Becoming Resistant to Poison
They’re evolving faster than we can stop them
These Ancient Baby Predators Challenge Our Understanding of Evolution
The first animals onto terra firma weren’t amphibians as previously suspected
Inside the Largest Whale Graveyard on Earth
Whale remains have accumulated in this Indian Ocean site for 5 million years
Hawaii’s False Killer Whales Are Wasting Away
Nutritional stress depresses an already threatened population
How These Supergiant Sea Creatures Survive More Than 5 Years Without Eating
It takes a large stomach and a slow metabolism
