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Evolution’s Favorite Fish Diversify through ‘Noncoding’ Genes

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By Jason Goldman Verified
| Scientific American Verified
Proliferating cichlids may specialize using regulatory DNA East African cichlid species. Credit: Javier Millán Photography Getty Images Darwin's finches are perhaps the best-known examples of adaptive radiation—the evolutionary phenomenon in which one ancestral species rapidly diversifies into several new ones, each with unique adaptations for surviving in its own environment. But these Galápagos birds have nothing on the cichlids of East Africa.
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Lovebirds Adore Our Inefficient Air-Conditioning

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By Jason Goldman Verified
| Scientific American Verified
Lovebird perched on a tree branch in Arizona. Credit: Getty Images The rosy-faced lovebirds that live in Phoenix appear to be free riding on our urban climate control. “For probably most of a decade, it seemed to be during the hot summertime where my students would come back into the building and knock on my door and say, ‘Hey, did you see the lovebirds on the windows and the vents?’ I’d say, ‘Yeah, I have.’ And they’d say, ‘What do you think they’re doing? Why are they there?
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Imperiled Freshwater Turtles Are Eating Plastics—Science Is Just Revealing the Threat

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By Jason Goldman Verified
| Scientific American Verified
Red-eared slider entangled in a plastic six-pack ring. Credit: Alamy We know a lot about how sea turtles are threatened by our trash, but new research has just uncovered an underreported threat hiding inside lakes and rivers. “So what happened is: I started cutting open these specimens that had been preserved and sitting in the museum collection for five or six years. I took a Dremel tool, cut off the shell, opened it up, looked at the stomach contents.
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