Nature Is Lit

Sources & Further Reading: “Thismia daemona (Thismiaceae), a new species from Thailand supported by morphological and molecular evidence” — PhytoKeys (Original Research) “Scientists Discovered a Bizarre ‘Devil Flower’ That Doesn’t Need Sunlight” — ScienceAlert “Researchers discover ‘devil flower’ hidden beneath the forest floor in Thai national park” — Discover Wildlife Original Research: Thismia daemona (Thismiaceae), a new species from Thailand supported by morphological an

Sources & Further Reading: Original Scientific Publication — Current Biology National Geographic — Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years Reuters — New Cat Species Identified in Bolivia, First in Over a Century Imagine finding a kitten near a road, bringing it home, and eventually realizing that not only is this absolutely not a house cat, but scientists don’t even have the correct species name for what has been living with you. That is essentially how the sci

Original research: Nature Communications — “Scalable high resolution ancestry deconvolution for genomic data” Additional reading: ScienceAlert — “It Turns Out Chihuahuas Are Actually Part Coyote” Chihuahuas already have a reputation for behaving like they are much larger than they actually are, but new genetic research has added an unexpected twist to their story. Researchers studying ancestry in animal genomes found that some sections of Chihuahua DNA are closely associated