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  • Why are some worms such lazy lovers: a reprise

    Even earthworms seem to experience feelings strong enough to overcome the natural tendency of living things to avoid wasting energy.

    June 26, 2025

    Frank Brown Cloud

    Academic science, All posts, Evolutionary biology, Parenting
    animal sentience, biology, caretaking, earthworm sex, earthworms, evolution, evolutionary biology, exercise, experimental biology, Grove and Cowley, mate choice, nature, peacocks, science, sperm competition, Victorian science, wildlife, worm, worm sex, worms
    Why are some worms such lazy lovers: a reprise
  • On the toothy origins of our inner fire.

    With one weird trick, morganucodon kept our kind from being killed by saprophytic fungi.

    April 4, 2024

    Frank Brown Cloud

    Ecology
    ancestor worship, ancient fossils, biology, blight, chewing, Chicago, climate change, cooking, decline of reptiles, dinosaur, dinosaurs, Emily Monosson, evolution, fall of dinosaurs, Fire, fire myths, first mammal, fossils, fungal epidemics, fungal infections, fungal pandemics, fungi, global warming, inner fire, mass extinction, mastication, metabolism, morganucodon, nature, proto-mammal, protomammal, rise of mammals, saprophytic fungi, science, Steve Brussate, teeth, The Field Museum, The Rise and Reign of the Mammals, tooth, warm blood, warm bloodedness, wildlife
    On the toothy origins of our inner fire.

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