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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

Next up is #DNA & Molecular #Biology: A 2025 digital view in Andromeda. Livestream here: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/why2025

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

🌋 Deep life's survival secret: Crustal faulting generates key energy sources, study shows
#biology

Deep life's survival secret: Crustal faulting generates key energy sources, study shows
Chinese researchers have recently challenged the long-held belief that "all life depends on sunlight." In a study published in Science Advances, the researchers identified how microbes in deep subsurface areas can derive energy from chemical reactions driven by crustal faulting, offering critical insights into life deep below Earth's surface.

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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