‘Living fossil’ genome unlocked : Nature News & Comment.   This is one of the most famous creatures to have ever gone extinct and then be UN-extinct.  And we’ve finally got genetics! 🙂

    Tracking whole colonies shows ants make career moves : Nature News & Comment.   One of the things we discuss in class is social living, particularly among social insects.  For this to work, individuals must give up independent reproductive success–one of the key components to evolutionary fitness.  Occasionally, even individual foraging for food…

    Can Evolution Beat Climate Change?   This particular article should be interesting to my students because we talk about a lot of this in class. Not specifically about sea urchins, true, but about the topics that tie into this.  One of the things that we discuss in class is the idea of latent…

Fish Fossil Shows Why Humans Have Two Arms, Legs : Discovery News.  

An Emergency Hatch for Baby Lizards – ScienceNOW.  

BBC News – Pyrenean desman: On the trail of Europe’s weirdest beast.