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Devin Reese

(She/Her)
Alexandria
Covers:  ecology, environment, animal behavior, paleontology, and just about anything related
Doesn't Cover: willing to cover anything in science and natural history, across disciplines
Science Writer: Exec Editor at Natural History Magazine. Turtle ally. Competitive rower. Grateful mom of three. www.linkedin.com/in/devin-reese

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How This Mouse Lives at a Higher Elevation Than Any Other Vertebrate

How This Mouse Lives at a Higher Elevation Than Any Other Vertebrate

Nautilus — How This Mouse Lives at a Higher Elevation Than Any Other Vertebrate: It's become uniquely suited to handle below-freezing temperatures and a diet of poisonous plants

The Surprising Evolutionary Trade-offs Between Fangs, Stingers, and Claws

The Surprising Evolutionary Trade-offs Between Fangs, Stingers, and Claws

Nautilus — The Surprising Evolutionary Trade-offs Between Fangs, Stingers, and Claws: The science behind nature's different puncture tools

How Hannibal's War Elephants Helped to Determine His Route Through the Alps

How Hannibal's War Elephants Helped to Determine His Route Through the Alps

Nautilus — How Hannibal's War Elephants Helped to Determine His Route Through the Alps: When you go into battle with nearly 40 gigantic pachyderms, you need to take the shortest path possible

How Animals Communicate Across Species

How Animals Communicate Across Species

Nautilus — How Animals Communicate Across Species: From honeyguides to cleaner fish, cross-species cooperation abounds

Blue the Dog Has One Job at Grand Canyon: Elk Patrol

Blue the Dog Has One Job at Grand Canyon: Elk Patrol

A-Z-Animals — In Grand Canyon National Park, a dog has been trained to make a difference. Alongside his ranger, Blue keeps wildlife and visitors apart.

This Blind Cave-Dwelling Fish May Be the Key to Understanding Brain Evolution

This Blind Cave-Dwelling Fish May Be the Key to Understanding Brain Evolution

Nautilus — This Blind Cave-Dwelling Fish May Be the Key to Understanding Brain Evolution: Its life in the darkness could shine a light on other neural rewiring

Here's How Mosquitoes Survive the Deadly Viruses They Transmit

Here's How Mosquitoes Survive the Deadly Viruses They Transmit

Nautilus — Here's How Mosquitoes Survive the Deadly Viruses They Transmit: Tamped-down viral action keeps the mosquito vectors alive until they infect humans

Was the Saber-Toothed Cat Doomed by Its Signature Fangs?

Was the Saber-Toothed Cat Doomed by Its Signature Fangs?

Nautilus — Was the Saber-Toothed Cat Doomed by Its Signature Fangs?: Five million years of evolutionary history were hidden in a museum drawer

Inside the Brain of a 319-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fish

Inside the Brain of a 319-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fish

Nautilus — Inside the Brain of a 319-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fish: It paves the way for understanding how ray-finned fishes came to dominate Earth's oceans

Ploidy and Meiosis | Biology | Visionlearning

Ploidy and Meiosis | Biology | Visionlearning

visionlearning.com — The largest, most complex organisms share a commonality with the smallest, simplest organisms - reproduction. But the process by which an organism achieves replication of its genetic material varies greatly and depends on several factors.

Four New Chameleon Species Found in Tropical "Sky Islands"

Four New Chameleon Species Found in Tropical "Sky Islands"

Nautilus — Four New Chameleon Species Found in Tropical "Sky Islands": Two of which are named after pioneering female scientists

How Fruit Flies Manage Their Exceptionally Long Sperm

How Fruit Flies Manage Their Exceptionally Long Sperm

Nautilus — How Fruit Flies Manage Their Exceptionally Long Sperm: If human sperm were a foot long, fruit fly sperm would span three football fields

Orangutans Seek Out Medicinal Plants

Orangutans Seek Out Medicinal Plants

Nautilus — Orangutans Seek Out Medicinal Plants: In fact, they're some of the same plants used pharmacologically by local Indigenous people

How City Rats Are Becoming Resistant to Poison

How City Rats Are Becoming Resistant to Poison

Nautilus — How City Rats Are Becoming Resistant to Poison: They're evolving faster than we can stop them

These Ancient Baby Predators Challenge Our Understanding of Evolution

These Ancient Baby Predators Challenge Our Understanding of Evolution

Nautilus — These Ancient Baby Predators Challenge Our Understanding of Evolution: The first animals onto terra firma weren't amphibians as previously suspected

Hear a Mystery Bird? Merlin's AI Can Name It Instantly

Hear a Mystery Bird? Merlin's AI Can Name It Instantly

A-Z-Animals — Discover how Merlin Bird ID uses AI to identify birds by sight and sound, and why millions of nature lovers rely on it.

What Makes Sloths So Slow?

What Makes Sloths So Slow?

Nautilus — What Makes Sloths So Slow?: The two-toed sloth genome provides some definitive answers

Inside the Largest Whale Graveyard on Earth

Inside the Largest Whale Graveyard on Earth

Nautilus — Inside the Largest Whale Graveyard on Earth: Whale remains have accumulated in this Indian Ocean site for 5 million years

How These Supergiant Sea Creatures Survive More Than 5 Years Without Eating

How These Supergiant Sea Creatures Survive More Than 5 Years Without Eating

Nautilus — How These Supergiant Sea Creatures Survive More Than 5 Years Without Eating: It takes a large stomach and a slow metabolism

Hawaii's False Killer Whales Are Wasting Away

Hawaii's False Killer Whales Are Wasting Away

Nautilus — Hawaii's False Killer Whales Are Wasting Away: Nutritional stress depresses an already threatened population

Koalas Were in Trouble Before Humans Arrived in Australia

Koalas Were in Trouble Before Humans Arrived in Australia

Nautilus — Koalas Were in Trouble Before Humans Arrived in Australia: DNA evidence points to environmental upheaval as a cause of their Late Pleistocene decline

Dogs Could Be Humanity's Best Friend in the Fight Against This Invasive Species

Dogs Could Be Humanity's Best Friend in the Fight Against This Invasive Species

Nautilus — Dogs Could Be Humanity's Best Friend in the Fight Against This Invasive Species: A new trick for Fido-finding spotted lanternfly eggs

Check Out the Newest Fluorescent Amphibian

Check Out the Newest Fluorescent Amphibian

Nautilus — Check Out the Newest Fluorescent Amphibian: Another terrestrial organisms glows with UV light

This Towering Fir Is the Tallest Tree in East Asia

This Towering Fir Is the Tallest Tree in East Asia

Nautilus — This Towering Fir Is the Tallest Tree in East Asia: The Indigenous people of Taiwan call it "the tree that hits the moon"
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