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While Other Insects Played, This Species Evolved the Blade

Por: The New York Times Science November 14, 2022

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They are fruit flies, but they eat leaves. And to feed themselves, the females scrape and scoop vegetation with — this is what researchers actually sometimes call them — vaginal teeth. Then they turn their mouths to the plant juices they’ve liberated, and lap them up.In in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers identified evolutionary clues about these flies, including genes that may have helped turn their bristle-clad... + full article



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