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Eyes, as light-sensing organs of the #lens #eye type, have #evolved independently multiple times in the animal kingdom. But what did a representative of the early #vertebrate lineage look like? According to G. Kafetzis et al. (2026), a worm-like #ancestor possessed #medianeyes bring #homologous to the modern #pinealgland of the #brain. Published in #CurrentBiology. #evolution

© this text #StefanFWirth March 2026

#Reference
G. Kafetzis et al. (2026),
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.12.028

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/116131363356930077

Eyes, as light-sensing organs of the #lens #eye type, have #evolved independently multiple times in the animal kingdom. But what did a representative of the early #vertebrate lineage look like? According to G. Kafetzis et al. (2026), a worm-like #ancestor possessed #medianeyes bring #homologous to the modern #pinealgland of the #brain. Published in #CurrentBiology. #evolution

© this text #StefanFWirth March 2026

#Reference
G. Kafetzis et al. (2026),
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.12.028

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/116131363356930077

Eyes, as light-sensing organs of the #lens #eye type, have #evolved independently multiple times in the animal kingdom. But what did a representative of the early #vertebrate lineage look like? According to G. Kafetzis et al. (2026), a worm-like #ancestor possessed #medianeyes bring #homologous to the modern #pinealgland of the #brain. Published in #CurrentBiology. #evolution

© this text #StefanFWirth March 2026

#Reference
G. Kafetzis et al. (2026),
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.12.028

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/116131363356930077

Eyes, as light-sensing organs of the #lens #eye type, have #evolved independently multiple times in the animal kingdom. But what did a representative of the early #vertebrate lineage look like? According to G. Kafetzis et al. (2026), a worm-like #ancestor possessed #medianeyes bring #homologous to the modern #pinealgland of the #brain. Published in #CurrentBiology. #evolution

© this text #StefanFWirth March 2026

#Reference
G. Kafetzis et al. (2026),
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.12.028

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/116131363356930077

Eyes, as light-sensing organs of the #lens #eye type, have #evolved independently multiple times in the animal kingdom. But what did a representative of the early #vertebrate lineage look like? According to G. Kafetzis et al. (2026), a worm-like #ancestor possessed #medianeyes bring #homologous to the modern #pinealgland of the #brain. Published in #CurrentBiology. #evolution

© this text #StefanFWirth March 2026

#Reference
G. Kafetzis et al. (2026),
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.12.028

#Eyes of the world's longest-living #vertebrate, the #GreenlandShark, show little #ageing
Greenland #shark (Somniosus microcephalus) can live for up to 400 years in the chilly North Atlantic and Arctic waters, making it one of the longest-living #vertebrates on Earth. And according to new research its seemingly undead eyes are fully functioning and barely deteriorate even after a century. Unravelling the shark's anti-ageing secrets could benefit human eye health.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-01-10/eyes-dont-age-for-greenland-shark/106019818

New publication: Changes in #phenology mediate #vertebrate #population responses to #temperature globally, by @stefanvriend and others.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-68172-8

🐭🧠 The common #shrew is a tiny #vertebrate with a bizarre survival strategy called Dehnel’s phenomenon. To save #energy during lean #winter months, these #animals physically shrink their skulls and #brains, only to regrow them when #spring arrives.

👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/common-shrew-shrink

#neuroscience #evolution #nature #science #mammals #research #discovery #education

https://www.alojapan.com/1403731/japan-aims-to-boost-feed-efficiency-and-secure-stable-supply-to-drive-aquaculture-growth/ Japan aims to boost feed efficiency and secure stable supply to drive aquaculture growth #anchovy #animal #AnimalScale #AnimalsAndPets #AnimalsHunting #AnimalsInTheWild #blue #Cold #Community #FIN #fish #gill #Herring #Japan #JapanNews #LargeGroupOfAnimals #light #news #school #SchoolOfFish #sea #SeaLife #silver #speed #swimming #underwater #vertebrate #water #WaterSurface #wildlife Aquaculture has been targeted as a growth sector for the, wi

https://www.alojapan.com/1403731/japan-aims-to-boost-feed-efficiency-and-secure-stable-supply-to-drive-aquaculture-growth/ Japan aims to boost feed efficiency and secure stable supply to drive aquaculture growth #anchovy #animal #AnimalScale #AnimalsAndPets #AnimalsHunting #AnimalsInTheWild #blue #Cold #Community #FIN #fish #gill #Herring #Japan #JapanNews #LargeGroupOfAnimals #light #news #school #SchoolOfFish #sea #SeaLife #silver #speed #swimming #underwater #vertebrate #water #WaterSurface #wildlife Aquaculture has been targeted as a growth sector for the, wi

[USGS] FORT Science In Action – Science In Support Of Invasive Reptile Management In The Greater Everglades
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/fort-collins-science-center/news/fort-science-action-part-7-science-support-invasive <-- shared technical article
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#remotesensing #florida #everglades #restoration #burmese #python #snake constrictor #impacts #invasive #species #reptiles #loss #mammal #tegus #ecosystems #habitat #plants #vertebrate #carnivore #feral #threatened #research #culling #risk #hazard #threat #AI #imagery #UAS #GIS #spatial #mapping #DNA #sampling #surveillance #cost #ecology #damage #trapping #collaboration #scaleable #control #biocontrol #fedscience #fedservice #management #protection #swamp #wetland #grasslands #geomorphology #geomorphometry #water #hydrology #native #species #USGS #NPS
@USGS @NPS

Vertebrate Diversity In Stormwater Sewer Systems Of Alachua County, Florida
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https://www.eaglehill.us/URNAonline2/access-pages/075-Ivory-accesspage.shtml <-- shared paper
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[not NYC, but Florida, a fascinating Friday afternoon read for me…]
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#urbanization #urbanisation #animal #Vertebrate #Diversity #StormwaterSewerSystems #AlachuaCounty #Florida #humaninpacts #urbananimals #subterranean #tunnels #monitoring #cameratraps #anthropogenic #mapping #spatial #spatialanalysis #amphibians #reptiles #birds #mammals #raccoons #alligator #urban #urbanplanning

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For Millions of Years, #Earth Was #Dominated by a Single #Vertebrate Genus : Medium

What to Do When You Have a Bad #Boss : HBR

#Giant #Viruses Discovered in #Arctic Ice Could Slow Sea-Level Rise ($) : Sci Am

Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

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It's very satisfying to see the crown article of my first PhD student Bryan Shirley published! Skeleton is usually all that remains from an animal in the fossil record, so in order to find out how the animal functioned when alive, we have to squeeze out clues from the skeletal tissues, for example using advanced #ElectronMicroscopy 🔬. We were told that vertebrate tissues are too chemically unstable to study this way, but with the help of experts in microscopy, we were able to make rapid measurements of crystallography in the oldest #vertebrate hashtag#teeth to understand how they function evolved. Turns out the crystal orientation reflects the function! From the #ultrastructure we can estimate how the animals were biting and see their evolutionary adaptations at the level of individual crystals 💎 This was possible thanks to the facilities and funding by EXCITE network and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation

Now published #OpenAccess at https://rdcu.be/dLpbD
#UtrechtUniversity #evolution #biomineralization #paleontology #paleobiology #conodonts

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New NIOO publication: #Vertebrate grazing can mitigate impacts of #nutrient addition on #plant diversity and #insect abundance in a semi-natural #grassland. #biodiversity #eutrophication #fertilization #rewilding
https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10422

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#LostSpecies are those that have not been observed in the wild for over 10 years, despite searches to find them. Lost #tetrapod #species (four-limbed #vertebrate animals including #amphibians, #birds, #mammals and #reptiles) are a global phenomenon—there are more than 800 of them, and they are broadly distributed worldwide.
But, we are losing tetrapod species at a faster rate than we are rediscovering them, researchers say https://phys.org/news/2024-01-tetrapod-species-faster-rediscovering.html

In Search of the Lost Chordatum —
• https://www.sciencealert.com/scientist-accidentally-discovers-the-oldest-brain-of-any-vertebrate

#Chordatum #Chordata #Chordate
#Notochord #Vertebrate #Vertebrain
#Eversion #Reflection #Retroduction

The Hidden World of Extreme Ocean Depths: Life and Pressures in the Trenches https://deepseanews.com/2023/12/the-hidden-world-of-extreme-ocean-depths-life-and-pressures-in-the-trenches/

"Among #invertebrates, several reach trench depths, including the sea cucumber Myriotrochus bruuni at 10,710 in the #MarianaTrench, the extremely abundant amphipod Hirondellea gigas at 10,897 m in the #ChallengerDeep, the isopod Macrostylis species at 10,710 in the Mariana Trench... The deepest known #vertebrate is the hadal #snailfish Pseudoliparis swirei found at 7966 m."

Microbial ecology of #vertebrate #decomposition in #terrestrial #ecosystems

https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiad006

#microbialecology @IMPACTT #gutmicrobes #hostmicrobiota #hostmicrobe #microbialecology #microbeinteractions #Symbionauts #symbiosis @MicrobioJC @openscience @MicrobioJC @AT_Bioresources@miCROPe_org

The #CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old #fossilized #fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved #vertebrate #brain.
#Paleontology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/02/pal02012301.html

Hi! #Introduction We are the @PaleoParaDive team @ the Institute of #EvolutionaryBiology at the Faculty of #Biology at the University of #Warsaw. We study the impact of #extinction and #climate warming on #parasite-host interactions and #disease in deep time. Our favorite tools for this purpose: #fossils #invertebrate #paleopathology #parasitology #vertebrate #coprolites #paleobiology #paleontology #modelling #phylogenetics

For this purpose, our #PARADIVE team focus on sampling parasitic-induced 🦪 pathologies in #marine environments to 🪱 #eggs in terrestrial 🦖 #vertebrate #coprolites and #modelling those in relationship with #host #diversity around major #extinction events or #environmental changes.