Tootfinder

Visiting the turtles at the Brown County State Park nature center. Box 🐢 , painted 🐢 , musk 🐢
#Indiana #Wildlife #Biology

This is another horrifying statistic to shelve alongside the composition of global mammalian biomass:
• humans 34%
• livestock and pets 62%
• wild animals 4%
#science #biology #ecology

Jonathan Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image …Here are some highlights (lowlights): “If you drop all that old life into the container that we call Earth, and burn them, it turns out that what we burn in *1 year* weighs 100x more than everything alive today. Everything. All the whales, elephants, forests, insects, grass, crops, birds, fish, people, dogs and cats. Add up all the carbon in everything alive now, and still, in one year we burn a hundred times more.” #climateDiary

🦖 Study analyzes 400 million years of enzyme evolution
#biology

Study analyzes 400 million years of enzyme evolution
Enzymes catalyze chemical reactions in organisms—without which life would not be possible. Leveraging AlphaFold2 artificial intelligence, researchers at Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin have now succeeded in analyzing the laws of their evolution on a large scale.

The creator has an inordinate fondness for beetles. --J.B.S. Haldane (common quote version)
different known types of
beetles: 300,000
birds: 9,000
mammals: 10,000
J.B.S.H. was a brilliant biology scientist, speechifier, and raconteur.
#Biology #Genetics

Scientists discover unknown organelle inside our cells #science #biology
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-scientists-unknown-organelle-cells.html#google_vignette

What a difference a research field makes! 📢 new paper on high rates of #OpenData sharing in #Biology at #EdinburghUni, led by Haya Deeb from our BioRDM team with 5 student researchers 👩‍🎓.
Previously on her #Metascience2025 poster. 🧵 1/3

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328065
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🌰 The surprisingly tricky art of seed banking
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/seed-banking-to-preserve-rare-plants

The surprisingly tricky art of seed banking
To safeguard threatened plants, science must unravel the hidden biology of often-persnickety seeds as they age, sleep and awaken

✒️ Scientists have found a way to 'tattoo' tardigrades
... I think there will be a lot of competition for Ig Nobels this year
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-scientists-tattoo-tardigrades.html

Scientists have found a way to 'tattoo' tardigrades
If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: freezing temperatures, near starvation, high pressure, radiation exposure, outer space and more. Researchers reporting in the journal Nano Letters took advantage of the tardigrade's nearly indestructible nature and gave the critters tiny "tattoos" to test a microfabrication technique to build microsc…