OnElephants&Bacteria

@ElephaBacteria

Science blog about the tree of life, evolution and other unique creatures. Run by @trichodes and @bitxoptera #scicomm #biology #treeoflife

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OnElephants&Bacteria @ElephaBacteria Mar 29, 2024

Convergent evolution is an extraordinary force. Did you know that animals like roly-pollies or horseshoe crabs have evolved the ability to roll? Does everything turn into a ball?🥎

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#scicomm #science #arthropods #Evolution

OnElephants&Bacteria @ElephaBacteria Nov 24, 2023

You may have heard that crabs have evolved many times... what if I told you that evolution keeps making spiders, grasshoppers or stick bugs into ants?

#SciComm #Science #Ants #EVOLution

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onelephantsandbacteria.net Why do things keep evolving into ants? Ants represent one of the most striking cases of convergent evolution on Earth. Thousands of species, from spiders to crickets have evolved to resemble ants through a process known as Myrmecomorphy…

OnElephants&Bacteria @ElephaBacteria Feb 16, 2022

We have a new blog post! Have you heard about the Cambrian period and its relation to the theory of evolution? And what are those bivalved arthropods, 'shrimps' that wear a shield? Microscopic fossils with setae, fossilized conga-lines... see it at:
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#paleo

OnElephants&Bacteria @ElephaBacteria Feb 14, 2022

Is that day of the year. People gift flowers to their loved ones. But can you do it without angiosperms? Goethe used Gingko, the last surviving genus of a group of plants long extinct, and he wrote a poem. We probably can't beat that.
#botany #scicomm

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onelephantsandbacteria.net Say it with leaves: a gymnospermic romance Happy Valentine Day everyone! We would like to give our biological slant on this romantic date. The Internet is ripe with dating techniques and romantic proposals, ranging from original to pure non…

OnElephants&Bacteria @ElephaBacteria Sep 20, 2021

New post! What do ancient languages in southern France and forests in Atlantic islands have in common? Discover the concept of refugia: biological and cultural outliers that tell ancient stories!
#CanaryIslands #Cerdagne #basque #forest
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onelephantsandbacteria.net Ancient languages and ancient forests, how diversity hints history Last year I was on an adventure exploring the concept of refugia. Many animals and cultures used to be widely spread, in the past, but today, can only be found sparsely. The Canary Island flora is …