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Four days of extreme rain killed 7% of world's rarest orangutans, study says

Climate change-induced weather events are pushing orangutan populations to extinction, says a study.

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Four days of extreme rain killed 7% of world's rarest orangutans, study says

Climate change-induced weather events are pushing orangutan populations to extinction, says a study.

From the BBC News-2026-6-11:8:5:2

Frozen squirrel poop from Yukon is a treasure trove of woolly mammoth, horse DNA

Scientists have reconstructed genomes of woolly mammoths, horses, steppe bison and ground squirrels that roamed the grasslands of the Canadian Arctic as far back as 700,000 years ago using DNA found in frozen squirrel poop from the Yukon.

From the CBC News-2026-6-10:14:6:1

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Jun 12 20:00Reply to Uma Shaanker: Pollen aggregations, genomic conflict, and single paternity in multiseeded fruits - Kamaljit S. , et al. (PNAS)
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Jun 12 14:03Mutation rate estimate and population genomic analysis reveals decline of koalas prior to human arrival by Toby G L Kovacs and others (MBE)
Jun 12 14:03polyAdapt: characterizing polygenic adaptive architectures in the presence of strong linkage disequilibrium by Rupert Mazzucco and Christian Schlötterer (GBE)
Jun 11 14:03Limited selection on Neanderthal DNA in 30,780 recently admixed genomes with African-like ancestry by Aaron Pfennig and Joseph Lachance (MBE)
Jun 11 14:03Early evolution of the prokaryotic transcription factor repertoire by Inder Raj Singh and others (GBE)
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Jun 10 20:00Ultrarapid MC1R protein and associated plumage color evolution in the domestic chicken - Cheng Ma, et al. (PNAS)
Jun 10 20:00Expression of four mitochondrial tRNAs from only two loci - Jessica M. , et al. (PNAS)
Jun 10 20:00Social immunity can be a consequence and cause of social evolution - Ming Liu, et al. (PNAS)

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