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Sep 16, 2025
Disease experts team up with Florida Museum of Natural History to create a forecast for West Nile virus
Key points State and local officials in Florida maintain hundreds of coops with what are referred to as sentinel chickens,…
Sep 10, 2025
No eyes, no brain, no problem: Brittle stars have traveled the world over, and scientists have figured out how
A ncient, gangly cousins of sea stars, brittle stars crawl the seafloor on five flexible arms, which in some cases…
Sep 3, 2025
Paleontologists go back to the future, reconstruct fossilized functional diversity to inform conservation goals
Key points Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that functional diversity can be accurately inferred from the marine fossil…