ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to Biodiversity@mander.xyzEnglish · 8 months agoThis is the first egg-laying amphibian found to feed its babies ‘milk’www.sciencenews.orgexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThis is the first egg-laying amphibian found to feed its babies ‘milk’www.sciencenews.orgZeroCool@slrpnk.net to Biodiversity@mander.xyzEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squarenova_ad_vitum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-28 months agoThey do, I’m many cases the choice to assign two populations to different species rather than one is not clearcut. All sorts of weird stuff can happen, like ring species around long mountains : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species Within that species there are populations that cannot interbreed, yet there’s still gene flow between them. Humans like putting things into neat little boxes. Nature is under no obligation to oblige.
They do, I’m many cases the choice to assign two populations to different species rather than one is not clearcut. All sorts of weird stuff can happen, like ring species around long mountains :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
Within that species there are populations that cannot interbreed, yet there’s still gene flow between them.
Humans like putting things into neat little boxes. Nature is under no obligation to oblige.