A new study by Professor David Combosch (former postdoc) and OEB Professor Gonzalo Giribet reveals the surprising sex determination system in the living fossil, Nautilus #evolution #genetics #cephalopod #chromosome
Past to future 1/2 🌍 Our new Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com perspective shows how archives, maps, art, oral histories & palaeo-records can enrich #biodiversity science—helping set baselines, track change & inform #conservation. 🔗 rdcu.be/eEcIt #history #ecology #baselines
In a parallel with the devastating destruction of the Aral Sea, Lake Urmia in Iran -- once one of the world's largest saltwater lakes -- has now also been completely destroyed by overpumping, #water diversions, and increased evaporation from climate change.
www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/862...
This perspective is the fruit of a truly inspirational and interdisciplinary collaboration between biologists, archeologists, geographers and historians. Feeling very priviledged to have been a part of it!
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Reconnecting people with eels is wonderful, important and necessary
But local initiatives are far from sufficient
The eel will go extinct if its conservation doesn't grow to be drastic and widespread
Check new paper below
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
