dmv.community is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A small regional Mastodon instance for those in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia areas. Local news, commentary, and conversation.

Administered by:

Server stats:

154
active users

#brachiopods

0 posts0 participants0 posts today
Niels de Winter<p>Enjoyed reading about this nice study @Palaeo3 about the relationship between Li/Ca ratios in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/brachiopods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brachiopods</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/temperature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>temperature</span></a>. The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dataset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dataset</span></a> looks very robust and the empirical relationship highly promising for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paleoclimate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleoclimate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reconstructions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reconstructions</span></a>!</p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225002135" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S0031018225002135</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Oldest-known evolutionary arms race <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-01-fossil-reveals-oldest-evolutionary-arms.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-01-fossil-r</span><span class="invisible">eveals-oldest-evolutionary-arms.html</span></a></p><p>Adaptive responses in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> predator and prey highlight the arms race during the rise of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> <a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)01647-6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cell.com/current-biology/abstr</span><span class="invisible">act/S0960-9822(24)01647-6</span></a> </p><p>"These 517-million-year-old predator-prey interactions occurred between a small, shelled <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animal</span></a> distantly related to <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/brachiopods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brachiopods</span></a> and an unknown marine animal capable of piercing its shell... an increase in shell wall thickness coincides with an increase in the number of perforated shells"</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Remarkable marine animal forests found around <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Wellington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wellington</span></a>'s coast in central <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a> <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-09-remarkable-marine-animal-forests-wellington.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-09-remarkab</span><span class="invisible">le-marine-animal-forests-wellington.html</span></a></p><p>Ecologically significant shallow-water (0–30 m) marine animal forests in central New Zealand <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989424003445" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S2351989424003445</span></a></p><p>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MarineAnimalForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarineAnimalForests</span></a> are habitats formed by big groups of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/invertebrates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>invertebrates</span></a>—creatures such as <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sponges</span></a>, horse <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mussels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mussels</span></a>, and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/brachiopods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brachiopods</span></a>, which look a bit like <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/clams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clams</span></a>. These remarkable communities are increasingly being recognized as <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> hotspots"</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Ancient marine <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animal</span></a> had inventive past despite being represented by few species <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-07-ancient-marine-animal-species.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-07-ancient-</span><span class="invisible">marine-animal-species.html</span></a></p><p>Morphological innovation did not drive diversification in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Mesozoic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mesozoic</span></a>–<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cenozoic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cenozoic</span></a> brachiopods <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02491-9" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41559-024</span><span class="invisible">-02491-9</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Brachiopods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brachiopods</span></a> were evolving in new directions but this did not become an evolutionary success in terms of the numbers of species... The findings shed light on some core principles of the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> of modern <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a>.</p>