#Raptor overhead! This bird of prey (I am uncertain of the exact #species) was flying above and in front of me as I walked the section of the path alongside Bawsey Drain between Columbia Way and Lynnsport in North Lynn this afternoon.
#photography #nature #birds #ornithology #raptors
jaz :twt: :wales_flag:
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Beautiful #photos from the deep, deep blue seas!
Dozens of new #species, including carnivorous 'death ball' sponge, discovered in Southern #Ocean https://abcnews.go.com/International/dozens-new-species-including-carnivorous-death-ball-sponge/story?id=126986681
Beautiful #photos from the deep, deep blue seas!
Dozens of new #species, including carnivorous 'death ball' sponge, discovered in Southern #Ocean https://abcnews.go.com/International/dozens-new-species-including-carnivorous-death-ball-sponge/story?id=126986681
Federico Mena Quintero
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Living organisms are assumed to produce same- #species #offspring.
But this is not the case for Messor ibericus, an #ant that lays individuals from two distinct #species.
In this life cycle, females must clone males of another species because they require their sperm to produce the worker caste.
As a result, males from the same mother exhibit distinct genomes and morphologies, as they belong to species that diverged over 5 million years ago.
The evolutionary history of this system appears as sexual parasitism that evolved into a natural case of cross-species cloning, resulting in the maintenance of a male-only lineage cloned through distinct species’ ova.
#biology #evolution
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09425-w
Living organisms are assumed to produce same- #species #offspring.
But this is not the case for Messor ibericus, an #ant that lays individuals from two distinct #species.
In this life cycle, females must clone males of another species because they require their sperm to produce the worker caste.
As a result, males from the same mother exhibit distinct genomes and morphologies, as they belong to species that diverged over 5 million years ago.
The evolutionary history of this system appears as sexual parasitism that evolved into a natural case of cross-species cloning, resulting in the maintenance of a male-only lineage cloned through distinct species’ ova.
#biology #evolution
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09425-w