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  • Your Inner Fish – Neil Shubin – PBS (2014)

    Your Inner Fish – Neil Shubin – PBS (2014)

    Your Inner Fish, is the first installment of a three part PBS series by Neil Shubin. After a quick review of our shared anatomy with the fish and a whirlwind tour along the evolutionary timeline, the program plunges us into the fascinating saga of discovery of the tetrapods that explains how limbs of the terrestrial vertebrates came to be. Watch how the legendary 375 million year old (Devonian) tetrapod fossil Tiktaalik was discovered after a series of adventurous Arctic expeditions. […]

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  • The Perilous Plight of Rainforest Epiphytes – PNAS (2024)

    The Perilous Plight of Rainforest Epiphytes – PNAS (2024)

    Epiphytes (mosses, ferns, bromeliads and orchids) are a strikingly interesting group of non-parasitic plants prevalent in the tropics that live on the surface of other plants. They are particularly abundant and diverse in mountainous cloud forests. Epiphytes are interesting because they constitute an important part of nutrient cycle in their ecosystems capturing moisture and nutrients from the air. In the tropics they can accumulate a considerable amount of biomass within forest canopies and form a special type of micro environment […]

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