🚨NEW SCIENCE ALERT!🚨Read our new, open-access publication in Scientific Reports (@nature.com) describing #biofluorescence in #cassowary casques! Very excited to unveil this after keeping it secret for 5 years⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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(A) Phylogenetic tree containing 14 nudibranch species from the clades Doridacea and Cladobranchia. (B–G) Digital microscope images showing structurally colored granules in H. tryoni, skirt (B), H. bullockii mantle (C), C. annae skirt (D), C. willani mantle (E), S. neapolitana ceras (F), B. stephanieae ceras (G). (Scale bar, 50 µm, Middle column; 200 µm, Right column.)

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Nudibranch color diversity shares a common physical basis in guanine photonic structure ‘pixels’.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/7ph150YyTr1

For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/THOS50YyTr2

High resolution US groundwater map!
Ma et al. (2026)
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre‐Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea We use topological data analysis to reveal a persistent morphological gap in a major group of songbirds (superfamily Passeroidea). The gap remained unoccupied for millions of years, even though nearb...

The "birds that don't exist" paper is out in Ecology Letters! 🍻 We found a viable body form that has never evolved in a big clade of songbirds, and tested a series of hypotheses to figure out why.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Climate, ecological dynamics, and the seasonal distribution of birds in mountains Ecological dynamics related to energy use and competition drives the seasonal distribution of birds in mountains across the world.

Why is there such variation in the birds encountered as you go up or down a mountain? New paper in #ScienceAdvances examines how climate and ecological interactions drive bird distributions in mountains throughout the year:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Diagram showing the evolutionary relationships among modern birds, highlighting those with similar sternum (breastbone) morphology to the extinct Lithornis.

Sternum (breastbone) morphology supports long-distance flight capabilities in Lithornis, an early member of the paleognath (ostrich, emu, etc.) lineage: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Congratulations to @tyrannosaura.bsky.social! 🪶🧪

PNAS journal cover

Our group analyzed 1,200+ GPS-tracked wild cats and dogs and found that wild dogs rely more on reused routes than wild cats. Born as Bill’s Covid lockdown idea--emailing data owners around the world--now finally out! Glad to have contributed to this tremendous effort.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401042122

A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon). Photo (c) Mike Rowe

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org

We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very proud of this paper in BioScience :

« Too cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from nature »

🧸 are more than toys, they shape among our first emotional connections to nature. But their design may also distort how we see wildlife !

👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios...

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