How Small Can You Get? Another New-To-Science Flea-Toad Wows Scientists
“The smallest vertebrates so far discovered are the flea-toads, which live at the limit for how small any vertebrate can possibly get.”
by @grrlscientist via #Substack
#frogs #FleaToad #amphibians #NewSpecies #SmallestVertebrates #evolution #ecology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/how-small-can-you-get-another-new
How Small Can You Get? Another New-To-Science Flea-Toad Wows Scientists
“The smallest vertebrates so far discovered are the flea-toads, which live at the limit for how small any vertebrate can possibly get.”
by @GrrlScientist via #Substack
#frogs #FleaToad #amphibians #NewSpecies #SmallestVertebrates #evolution #ecology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/how-small-can-you-get-another-new
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The Unsung Hero of Home Networks: Wi-Fi Backward Compatibility
In the realm of wireless technology, Wi-Fi stands out for its remarkable backwa...
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Two second-hand copies of #PhysicalAnthropology books from Cambridge University Press: What #Teeth Reveal About Human #Evolution and Evaluating Evidence in Biological #Anthropology. Taschen had a sale on recently, so I bagged myself a copy of The Fantastic Worlds of #FrankFrazetta at less than half price
#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #FantasyArt @bookstodon
Bonobos’ calls may be the closest thing to animal language we’ve seen.
@ArsTechnica reports: "300 aspects of each call were cataloged, letting researchers estimate meaning."
New review: Taking Flight is an entertaining if somewhat uneven book that unapologetically marvels at the many variations of animal flight that have evolved.
@levparikian #Books #BookReview #Scicomm #Evolution #Flight #Biomechanics @bookstodon
Long live introverts! 
Not the bravest mice 
, but the shy ones turn out to be the most persistent problem-solvers, according to a new study by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.
Here's a photo of Tanja with a team of TurtleBot 4 robots that she uses for collaborative object transport experiments.
Find out more by listening to Episode 116 of Robot Talk - available on all major podcast providers: https://linktr.ee/robottalkpod
Tanja Katharina Kaiser is a Senior Researcher at the University of Technology Nuremberg, where she leads the the Multi-Robot Systems Lab. She and her team focus on developing adaptive multi-robot systems to solve complex real-world tasks using artificial intelligence.
Listen to our chat here: https://www.robottalk.org/2025/04/04/episode-116-tanja-katharina-kaiser/
New Episode Alert!
This week, I chatted to Dr. Tanja Katharina Kaiser from the University of Technology Nuremberg about how applying evolutionary principles can help #robot teams make better decisions. 
Listen now: https://www.robottalk.org/2025/04/04/episode-116-tanja-katharina-kaiser/ #Robots #Robotics #Evolution
Most people think that #evolution is about dying, but it's not really the full story. It's also about not being born at all. What if people are actually evolving under the extreme pressure of the modern capitalism? The question remains - is humanity under active eugenics and they are selecting us to be their submissive cattle or are we evolving some immunity to the parasites?
Are the few people who do have children under those terrible conditions the ones who treasure their wholesome relationships over career or those who thrive as the slaves? I don't think it's actually being studied in this context. It feels creepy to even put those questions on the table.
Nevertheless, I think that after the full societal collapse will be different from Homo Sapiens. We have reached the limit of that evolutionary plateau. 300k years was a good run. Good Game people! Cheers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufmu1WD2TSk
#biology #human #eugenics #capitalism #anticapitalism #solarpunk
#MolecularClock analysis shows #bacteria used oxygen long before widespread photosynthesis
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-molecular-clock-analysis-bacteria-oxygen.html
A geological timescale for bacterial #evolution and oxygen adaptation https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ADP1853
"the earliest aerobic transition occurred in an ancestor of photosynthetic #cyanobacteria, indicating that the ability to utilize trace amounts of oxygen may have allowed the development of genes central to oxygenic #photosynthesis."
The bizarre-looking dinosaur challenging what we know about the evolution of fingers
The cultural evolution of distortion in music
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2024.0014
2-Apr-2025
Footprints reveal prehistoric Scottish lagoons were stomping grounds for giant #Jurassic #dinosaurs
New site contains over 130 footprints and trackways up to 12-meters-long
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1079146 #science #evolution #paleontology #Skye #Scotland
#Mammals were adapting from life in the trees to living on the ground before dinosaur-killing asteroid https://phys.org/news/2025-04-mammals-life-trees-ground-dinosaur.html
Down to earth: therian mammals became more terrestrial towards the end of the Cretaceous https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pala.70004
"plant life changed toward the end of the #Cretaceous, with flowering #plants creating more diverse habitats on the ground... The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian #evolution than any influence from #dinosaurs"
BREAKING: Scientists "discover" #evolution isn't just 
#dinosaurs doing Pilates, but actually involves whole-genome duplications. 
#Science finally caught up with what your high school #biology teacher told you while you were busy doodling in your notebook. 
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250326221649.htm #genome #discovery #HackerNews #ngated
Scientists uncover key mechanism in evolution: Whole-genome duplication drives
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250326221649.htm
@georgetakei Sadly, my humble suggestion is you can't protect people from themselves; and, we should let them received #DarwinAwards. #Evolution teaches through #Pain #Suffering and #Loss.
Oldest human face in Western Europe found in Spain, rewriting early European settlement history
A fascinating fossil find in Spain’s Atapuerca Mountains has revealed that the beginnings of human habitation in Western Europe predate what scientists previously believed...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/oldest-human-face-in-western-europe-found-in-spain/
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