Blue lobsters are very rare: 1 in 2 million by some estimates.
But SPLIT COLOR LOBSTERS are 1 in *50* million.
This lobster is a chimera of two fertilized eggs that fused together, with two distinct genomes: male on one side, female on the other.
(📷: Woods Hole Science Aquarium/NOAA Fisheries)
Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD
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Reminder that the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) is asking members to sign letters regarding the OMB rule (by 6/15) and to submit individual responses (by 7/13!!).
We have >250 signatories right now, GREAT!, but we have ~4k members, give or take, so pls get those signatures in!
Can you #FindThatLizard? (Eastern collared lizard Crotaphytus collaris)
But first, close your eyes and picture the desert. If it's just a barren wasteland, you'd be missing so much life!
Anza-Borrego is home to a living soil community comprising cyanobacteria, lichens, mosses, fungi, and algae.
a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman
The New York Knicks have won an NBA Finals game at home for the first time in 9,853 days.
SFI Science Board Fellow Simon Levin (Princeton University) has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Since the 1970s, his work has been rooted in mathematical theories and models to better understand a range of environmental issues.
