Treasures: The snapping shrimp
The first thing I need to tell you about the snapping shrimp is that I did not make it up. This is science. Really.
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The chimaera with the wheel of teeth
This is a majorly cool piece by Becky Crew on the Scientific American blog network. It details the slow, incremental progress toward a scientific consensus on a truly weird anatomical feature exhibited by some prehistoric chimaeras (fish that share a relatively recent common ancestor with the modern shark). It’s a great scientific problem. “We’ve discovered what… Read More »The chimaera with the wheel of teeth