First butterflies winged off from North and Central America
Scientists have discovered where the first butterflies originated and which plants they relied on for food.
Source: futurity.org
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Here's how spider geckos survive on Earth's hottest landscape
An analysis of the stomach contents of Misonne’s spider geckos shows there are more critters in the heart of Iran’s Lut Desert than meets the eye.
Source: sciencenews.org
New marine scale worm species first to provide evidence of male dwarfism
Researchers recently found a new species of scale worms (Annelida: Polynoidae) living mostly in pairs with a striking difference compared to the almost 900 already known species of scale worms: one was a quarter the size of its mate.
Source: eurekalert.org
Eptesicini: the serotines and their relatives (vesper bats part XIV)
Arielulus pipistrelles (once included within Pipistrellus), the Silver-haired bat Nycticeius) (Roehrs If serotines, butterfly bats and evening bats do form a clade, the names Eptesicini and Nycticeini (or Nycticeiini) are both available: Nycticeini Gervais, 1855 very much has priority (Eptesicini wasn't used - I think - until published by Volleth & Heller (1984)), but Roehrs et al. (2010) noted that "more effort will be required to resolve the position of Nycticeius [and what impact it might have] on the nomenclature of this clade" (p. 1084) [the relevant part of the cladogram is shown ...
Source: scienceblogs.com