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Living Raft of Fire Ants

QUOTE (BioCat)

How weird. You have to wonder how common these floods are so such a behavior could evolve.

QUOTE (NinthMusketeer)

-Mutation ocuurs in one of many fire ant colonies that lets that colony do this -Flood comes, kills all other colonies -The one colony that survived reproduces and the trait is now present in the whole population

QUOTE (Hydromancerx)

QUOTE (BioCat) How weird. You have to wonder how common these floods are so such a behavior could evolve. I would think seasonal. They have 2 seasons wet and flooding.

QUOTE (Slartibartfast)

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QUOTE (Hydromancerx)

The feathers in amber is awesome!!

QUOTE (Neoskel)

QUOTE (Hydromancerx) The feathers in amber is awesome!! Except that they sound a lot more like down feathers than actual transitional feathers.

QUOTE (Hydromancerx)

QUOTE (Neoskel) QUOTE (Hydromancerx) The feathers in amber is awesome!! Except that they sound a lot more like down feathers than actual transitional feathers. Well maybe they came of baby chick dinos when they were molting to their adult feathers.

QUOTE (Blarg)

Or maybe they just came from birds.

QUOTE (Neoskel)

QUOTE (Blarg) Or maybe they just came from birds. Which is what i meant by 'just down feathers'. Seriously, some of these guys jump the gun a lot.

QUOTE (Blarg)

Exactly. I mean, the scientist called them "feather-like." They weren't just SIMILAR to feathers, they WERE feathers. Specifically, the downy kind you see on baby chicks.

QUOTE (Vivus)

Some Interesting articles on Newscientist website: https://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg17924052.500 Here some recent ones off it: Darwin chip' brings evolution into the classroom The following article made me wonder whether we could have had our own sagan based sugar nucleic acid SNA (Saganose Nucleic Acid): Was simple TNA the first nucleic acid on Earth to carry a genetic code

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QUOTE (Maineiac) BUMPITY BUMP! when is the Magrathea dude comming back? I felt like visting today. Early Whales Gave Birth on Land, Fossils Reveal Mammals That Hibernate Or Burrow Less Likely To Go Extinct Honey Bees Can Tell The Difference Between Different Numbers At A Glance Birds Survived Mass Extinction That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Because Of Their Larger Brains Natural Selection Not The Only Process That Drives Evolution? Evolution In Action: Native U.S. Lizards Are Adapting To Escape Attacks By Fire Ants Evolutionary Process More Detailed Than Previously Believed, Study Shows New Species of Climbing Fish from Remote Venezuela Shakes the Catfish Family Tree As Super-predators, Humans Reshape Their Prey At Super-natural Speeds

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Largest snake 'as long as a bus'

QUOTE (Hydromancerx)

Fish With Transparent Head Filmed Found this on Space Oddity’s Blog. Its so cool i had to post it here.

QUOTE (Darkov)

I didn't saw the brain, can you see the brain?

QUOTE (Building Blocks)

how big is it

QUOTE (MNIDJM)

I'd say 1-2 feet. Maybe 3.

QUOTE (Hydromancerx)

QUOTE (Darkov) I didn't saw the brain, can you see the brain? Maybe its in the opaque part.

QUOTE (Darkov)

Its head is transparent, so it can see true it with its inside eyes. That's very strange.

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QUOTE (Oviraptor) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29537188/ This is like the discovery channel show that was on where they showed the checken embrys that they altered to give them teeth, or scales, or a longer tail. http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php?topic=1687.0

QUOTE (blitz)

Ants have livestock??

QUOTE (Vivus)

Second Genesis: The search for shadow life

QUOTE (blitz)

Bacteria found in stratosphere

QUOTE (blitz)

A rare all female ant society that reproduces by cloning is discovered. Wait, what?

QUOTE (Vivus)

Very exciting news! Molecule of life emerges from laboratory slime