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| The two-thousand-year-old mystery of the havoc-wreaking worm Posted: 13 Jul 2021 11:57 AM PDT Humans have known for over two thousand years that shipworms, a worm-like mollusk, are responsible for damage to wooden boats, docks, dikes and piers. Yet new research reveals that we still don't know the most basic thing about them: how they eat. |
| DNA reveals the evolutionary history of museum specimens Posted: 13 Jul 2021 06:37 AM PDT Museum specimens held in natural history collections around the world represent a wealth of underutilized genetic information due to the poor state of preservation of the DNA, which often makes it difficult to sequence. An international team has optimized a method developed for analyzing ancient DNA to identify the relationships between species on a deep evolutionary scale. |
| Resilience, not collapse: What the Easter Island myth gets wrong Posted: 13 Jul 2021 06:01 AM PDT New research suggests that the demographic collapse at the core of the Easter Island myth didn't really happen. |
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