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Arctic fossil is northern-most rhino species ever found

Millions of years ago, a pony-sized, hornless rhino wandered through the woods and munched on leaves in what is now northern Nunavut. A new study identities it as a new species, and offers an intriguing explanation for how it got there.

From the CBC News-2025-10-28:14:6:1

Scientists discover dinosaur 'mummies' with hoofs like a horse

It's been more than 60 million years since duck-billed dinosaurs roamed around what is now known as western North America.Or, more accurately, since they clomped around. On their hoofs.

From the CBC News-2025-10-28:8:5:1

Father and son discover fossilized ichthyosaur skull in B.C.'s Kiskatinaw River valley

Local resident Kevin Geist and his 11-year-old son Andreas discovered the skull two summers ago, spotting a strange black rock along the river's shoreline in the fossil-rich Peace region.

From the CBC News-2025-10-27:8:5:1

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Nature's Greatest Success: How Plants Evolved to Exploit Humanity, by Robert N Spengler, from University of California Press. (Oct 25).

Genetics Special Issue on Fitness Landscapes, edited by David McCandlish and Sergey Kryazhimskiy. (Oct 9).

Life History Evolution , edited by M. Segoli and E. Wajnberg, is available from Wiley. (Oct 7).

Decoding DNA Methylation, by Dr. Sivakumar Vijayaraghavalu, from OrangeBooks Publication. (Sep 28).

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Oct 28 14:03	Highly recurrent multi-nucleotide mutations in SARS-CoV-2 by Nicola De Maio and others (MBE)
Oct 28 14:03	Imprinting and DNA methylation in water lily endosperm: implications for seed evolution by Rebecca A Povilus and others (MBE)
Oct 28 14:03	Parallel evolution of X chromosome-specific SMC complexes in two nematode lineages by Avrami Aharonoff and others (MBE)
Oct 28 12:00	When islands collide: Divergence predicts outcomes of secondary contact during the fusion of Sulawesi's paleo-archipelago - Benjamin R. , et al. (PNAS)
Oct 27 14:03	Timing and pattern of early diversification in Drosophilidae (Diptera) by Guilherme Rezende Dias and others (MBE)
Oct 27 14:03	Natural Selection of a Virus-Protective FUT2 Variant Following the Transition to Agriculture by Johan Nordgren and others (MBE)
Oct 27 14:03	Genomic Drivers of Pyrethroid Resistance Escalation in the Malaria Vector Anopheles funestus Across Africa by Mahamat Gadji and others (MBE)
Oct 26 20:03	Accurate and efficient phylogenetic inference through end-to-end deep learning by Xinru Zhang and others (MBE)
Oct 26 20:03	HJ Muller and the relationship between sex chromosome degeneration and the evolution of dosage compensation by Brian Charlesworth and Deborah Charlesworth (GBE)
Oct 26 20:03	De Novo Gene Emergence: Summary, Classification, and Challenges of Current Methods by Anna Grandchamp and others (GBE)

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Call for Abstracts
Population and Conservation Genomics Workshop
Plant and Animal Genome 33 (PAG 33) International Conference
https://intlpag.org/PAG33/
January 9-14, 2026 Town and Country Convention Centre, San Diego,
California

The annual Population and Conservation Genomics workshop will be held at
the Plant and Animal Genome 33 (PAG 33) International conference. You
are invited to attend this Workshop and submit abstracts for oral
presentations on any population and conservation genomics aspect of
both plants and animals. The topics may include (but not limited to):
population genomic diversity and structure; molecular evolution;
pangenomes; phylogeography; landscape genomics; seascape genomics;
natural selection and local adaptation; ecological and evolutionary
genomics; population epigenomics; paleogenomics; eDNA; bioinformatics in
population and conservation genomics; population genomics of speciation;
metapopulation genomics; application of genomics in breeding, forensics,
biogeography, demography inferences, and conservation and management
of genetic resources; genomic effects of domestication, management
practices, fragmentation, bottlenecks, climate and environment change,
and transgenic deployment; and gene conservation; etc.

The Workshop will have 2 sessions (10 and 12 January) with a provision
for 12 invited speakers. Most of the invited presentations will be
selected from the submitted abstracts.  Please send your abstract of
no more than 250 words by e-mail to Om Rajora (Om.Rajora@unb.ca) as an
attached Word file no later than October 31, 2026. Please make sure to
include complete affiliations of all authors and email address of the
corresponding author. You will be notified by November 7, 2026 whether
your abstract has been selected for an oral presentation. Thereafter,
the selected presenters will need to submit their abstract to the PAG
website.  Authors whose abstracts are not selected for oral presentations
are highly encouraged to present a poster at the conference.

Inquiries and Abstract Submission

For information and questions regarding the Population and Conservation
Genomics workshop, please contact Om Rajora at the following coordinates.

Dr. Om P. Rajora
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada.
E-mail:  Om.Rajora@unb.ca
Tel: (506) 458-7477

om.rajora@unb.ca

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