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Diana Kenney

Massachusetts
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Fins, fingers and toes: A new take on repeating body parts and how they come to be

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By Diana Kenney, Stephanie Baum, Robert Egan Verified
| Phys.org Verified
A skeletal preparation of a little skate (Leucoraja erinacea) hatchling, ventral view. This image shows the head in ventral view, with the jaws, gills and fins arranged from the upper left to the lower right. Cartilage is stained blue, and mineralized cartilage is stained pink. Credit: Andrew Gillis, MBL As biologists know, nature can take its sweet time explaining itself.
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Fins, Fingers and Toes: A New Take on Repeating Body Parts and How they Come to Be

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By Diana Kenney
| The Marine Biological Laboratory
WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- As biologists know, nature can take its sweet time explaining itself. Andrew Gillis, associate scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), has been investigating how the paired fins of fishes evolved for nearly 20 years - ever since he was a PhD student with Neil Shubin at the University of Chicago.
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Newly Discovered Stentor Species Can Learn – and May Know What Time it Is

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By Diana Kenney
| The Marine Biological Laboratory
By Diana Kenney March 11, 2026 WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- On a beautiful summer day in 2023, Daniel Cortes went mucking around in the “really, really gross water” of an Atlantic white cedar swamp in Falmouth partly because “I don’t get to spend a lot of time outdoors,” and partly because he was hunting for Stentor, the giant, single-celled organism he was studying as a Grass Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL).
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