This article is republished from The Conversation. Ask any parent—welcoming a new baby to the family is exciting, but it comes with a lot of work. And when the new addition is a pair of ...

Logically speaking, you would think that animals who appeared to be the same – even if they were found in different parts of the world – would belong to the same species, and that they would share the ...

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Halalaimus is a microscopic nematode genus commonly found in sediment on the seafloor. It lives 1–5 cm below the sediment surface and grazes on bacteria or organic materials in the sediment. It does ...