Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
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International Botanical Journal covering all aspects of systematic & evolutionary botany of living & fossil plants & fungi 🌺🌿🌴🍄🟫
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This #FossilFriday marvel at the presence of Astropanax leaves & pollen in Ethiopia 21.73 million years ago, found in the Mush Valley, providing the earliest evidence for Araliaceae on the African continent! (around the time when ancient rhinos & horses began to evolve)🌍🧪
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November 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This #FossilFriday marvel at the presence of Astropanax leaves & pollen in Ethiopia 21.73 million years ago, found in the Mush Valley, providing the earliest evidence for Araliaceae on the African continent! (around the time when ancient rhinos & horses began to evolve)🌍🧪
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New Species Alert!
Two new species of the genus Cedrela from W Ecuador are described based on extensive comparative analysis, aiding in the classification of their conservation status! Both endangered by #Deforestation, this highlights the importance of continued research 👇
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Two new species of the genus Cedrela from W Ecuador are described based on extensive comparative analysis, aiding in the classification of their conservation status! Both endangered by #Deforestation, this highlights the importance of continued research 👇
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November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
New Species Alert!
Two new species of the genus Cedrela from W Ecuador are described based on extensive comparative analysis, aiding in the classification of their conservation status! Both endangered by #Deforestation, this highlights the importance of continued research 👇
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Two new species of the genus Cedrela from W Ecuador are described based on extensive comparative analysis, aiding in the classification of their conservation status! Both endangered by #Deforestation, this highlights the importance of continued research 👇
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Effective conservation relies on accurate research, monitoring & understanding of species. Here, the first comprehensive IUCN Red List assessment of the High Atlas vascular flora has been done, helping to uncover extinction threats to endemic flora! 🧪 🌍 👇
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November 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Effective conservation relies on accurate research, monitoring & understanding of species. Here, the first comprehensive IUCN Red List assessment of the High Atlas vascular flora has been done, helping to uncover extinction threats to endemic flora! 🧪 🌍 👇
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As Alphaville famously sang...hummingbird-pollinated Costus flowers appear to stay forever young, keeping their juvenile traits through paedomorphosis, whilst bee-pollinated ones do not! 🧪 🌍 👇
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November 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
As Alphaville famously sang...hummingbird-pollinated Costus flowers appear to stay forever young, keeping their juvenile traits through paedomorphosis, whilst bee-pollinated ones do not! 🧪 🌍 👇
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Piper (no, not the magical man who tamed the rats) is the largest genus of Piperaceae & second largest angiosperm, yet its biogeography & global radiation still requires research. Here, phylogenetic analysis investigated divergence time, revealing it spread to mainland Africa twice! (1/2)🌍 🧪 👇
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Piper (no, not the magical man who tamed the rats) is the largest genus of Piperaceae & second largest angiosperm, yet its biogeography & global radiation still requires research. Here, phylogenetic analysis investigated divergence time, revealing it spread to mainland Africa twice! (1/2)🌍 🧪 👇
Are you as bromeli-MAD about bromeliads as us? Then you're in luck!
Following the success of our previous special issues, we're pleased to announce a new one on Bromeliaceae Evolution & Systematics! Keep an eye on our socials as we share papers over the next few weeks 🌍 🧪 👇
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Following the success of our previous special issues, we're pleased to announce a new one on Bromeliaceae Evolution & Systematics! Keep an eye on our socials as we share papers over the next few weeks 🌍 🧪 👇
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October 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Are you as bromeli-MAD about bromeliads as us? Then you're in luck!
Following the success of our previous special issues, we're pleased to announce a new one on Bromeliaceae Evolution & Systematics! Keep an eye on our socials as we share papers over the next few weeks 🌍 🧪 👇
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Following the success of our previous special issues, we're pleased to announce a new one on Bromeliaceae Evolution & Systematics! Keep an eye on our socials as we share papers over the next few weeks 🌍 🧪 👇
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It's #WombatDay! Famed for their cubed poop, these guys have surprisingly similar forelimb myology to koalas...helping to unravel their evolutionary past! Read about it below 👇🌍🧪
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October 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It's #WombatDay! Famed for their cubed poop, these guys have surprisingly similar forelimb myology to koalas...helping to unravel their evolutionary past! Read about it below 👇🌍🧪
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Darwin's Darwin finches (the island is called Darwin, that's not a typo) have been variably described as either two species, or combined into just one. But what's right? As part of our #SpecialIssue on Evolution on Islands, Peter & Rosemary Grant took to answering this...(1/2) 🌍🧪
October 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Darwin's Darwin finches (the island is called Darwin, that's not a typo) have been variably described as either two species, or combined into just one. But what's right? As part of our #SpecialIssue on Evolution on Islands, Peter & Rosemary Grant took to answering this...(1/2) 🌍🧪
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Ahh, Drosophila suzukii, a global pest...and best dressed? Whilst fashion week is over, these guys really put the fly in fruit fly! Known for their body colour plasticity, the role of sexual vs natural selection on their colour diversity was investigated...check it out 👇🧪🌍🦟
Natural selection, rather than sexual selection, plays a dominant role in the formation of body coloration in Drosophila suzukii
Abstract. Drosophila suzukii is a globally distributed pest, and its body colour exhibits notable plasticity. Given the important roles of natural and sexu
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October 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Ahh, Drosophila suzukii, a global pest...and best dressed? Whilst fashion week is over, these guys really put the fly in fruit fly! Known for their body colour plasticity, the role of sexual vs natural selection on their colour diversity was investigated...check it out 👇🧪🌍🦟
Ever wondered in hard and woody fruits (like a cherry pit) or soft, unspecialised, berry-like fruits are the ancestral fruit-type in Arecoidea tropical palms? Well, you're in luck! Check out this paper to unravel this mystery...🌍🧪
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Fruit structure and development in representatives of Iriarteeae (Arecaceae–Arecoideae)
Abstract. With the aim of determining the plesiomorphic fruit type of Arecaceae–Arecoideae, we conducted a developmental carpological study of all five gen
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October 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Ever wondered in hard and woody fruits (like a cherry pit) or soft, unspecialised, berry-like fruits are the ancestral fruit-type in Arecoidea tropical palms? Well, you're in luck! Check out this paper to unravel this mystery...🌍🧪
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New Blog Day! 🐜📣
The acacia fruit doesn't fall far from the evolutionary tree in this new blog, written by guest blogger Josie Cooper! Ever wondered how plants defend themselves from plant-eating predators? In the case of swollen-thorn acacias, the answer is ants...a 🧵 (1/6) 🌍🧪
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The acacia fruit doesn't fall far from the evolutionary tree in this new blog, written by guest blogger Josie Cooper! Ever wondered how plants defend themselves from plant-eating predators? In the case of swollen-thorn acacias, the answer is ants...a 🧵 (1/6) 🌍🧪
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Ants, Acacias, and Breaking the Mould of Niche Conservatism
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October 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
New Blog Day! 🐜📣
The acacia fruit doesn't fall far from the evolutionary tree in this new blog, written by guest blogger Josie Cooper! Ever wondered how plants defend themselves from plant-eating predators? In the case of swollen-thorn acacias, the answer is ants...a 🧵 (1/6) 🌍🧪
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The acacia fruit doesn't fall far from the evolutionary tree in this new blog, written by guest blogger Josie Cooper! Ever wondered how plants defend themselves from plant-eating predators? In the case of swollen-thorn acacias, the answer is ants...a 🧵 (1/6) 🌍🧪
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Are you a PhD student ready to publish a paper? Submit your research to our journal today & enter one of our new journal prizes, celebrating PhD student work in #Botany! 🧪🌍👇
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September 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Are you a PhD student ready to publish a paper? Submit your research to our journal today & enter one of our new journal prizes, celebrating PhD student work in #Botany! 🧪🌍👇
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IT'S ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!
Not quite Frankenstein's monster, nuclear sequence capture was used on the orchid subtribe Calypsoinae, making a strong case for the resurrection of Kitigorchis as a sister to Corallorhiza! Read about it below 🌍🧪👇
Not quite Frankenstein's monster, nuclear sequence capture was used on the orchid subtribe Calypsoinae, making a strong case for the resurrection of Kitigorchis as a sister to Corallorhiza! Read about it below 🌍🧪👇
Phylogenomics and intergenomic conflict in a challenging orchid clade (Calypsoinae): monophyly of Corallorhiza, paraphyly of Oreorchis, and resurrection of Kitigorchis
Abstract. Heterotrophic plants are among the most recalcitrant from a systematics perspective because of reduced morphological and genomic features, and of
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September 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
IT'S ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!
Not quite Frankenstein's monster, nuclear sequence capture was used on the orchid subtribe Calypsoinae, making a strong case for the resurrection of Kitigorchis as a sister to Corallorhiza! Read about it below 🌍🧪👇
Not quite Frankenstein's monster, nuclear sequence capture was used on the orchid subtribe Calypsoinae, making a strong case for the resurrection of Kitigorchis as a sister to Corallorhiza! Read about it below 🌍🧪👇
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Who you gonna call? EVOLUTIONARY SCIENTISTS!
Ghost species (no, not species of ghost) are extinct, unknown & unsampled taxa...and they vastly outnumber those included in phylogenetics. This hidden diversity can complicate phylogenetic signals of horizontal gene flow, impacting their study...(1/2)🧪
Ghost species (no, not species of ghost) are extinct, unknown & unsampled taxa...and they vastly outnumber those included in phylogenetics. This hidden diversity can complicate phylogenetic signals of horizontal gene flow, impacting their study...(1/2)🧪
September 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Who you gonna call? EVOLUTIONARY SCIENTISTS!
Ghost species (no, not species of ghost) are extinct, unknown & unsampled taxa...and they vastly outnumber those included in phylogenetics. This hidden diversity can complicate phylogenetic signals of horizontal gene flow, impacting their study...(1/2)🧪
Ghost species (no, not species of ghost) are extinct, unknown & unsampled taxa...and they vastly outnumber those included in phylogenetics. This hidden diversity can complicate phylogenetic signals of horizontal gene flow, impacting their study...(1/2)🧪
It's #PeerReviewWeek and what better opportunity exists to say a huge thank you to our excellent reviewers from across the globe. It is your hard work & commitment that enables us to continue publishing ground-breaking research in Biology, Botany, Evolution and Zoology. (1/2)
September 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
It's #PeerReviewWeek and what better opportunity exists to say a huge thank you to our excellent reviewers from across the globe. It is your hard work & commitment that enables us to continue publishing ground-breaking research in Biology, Botany, Evolution and Zoology. (1/2)
Did you know male wasps can get tricked by orchids into thinking they're females?
Pterostylis orchids use sexual deception as a pollination strategy, with fungus gnats (Diptera) falling victim, acting as the main pollinators of these deceptive plants! 🌍🧪👇
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Pterostylis orchids use sexual deception as a pollination strategy, with fungus gnats (Diptera) falling victim, acting as the main pollinators of these deceptive plants! 🌍🧪👇
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How widespread is pollination by sexual deception of fungus gnats in Pterostylis (Orchidaceae)?
Abstract. Pollination by sexual deception has evolved multiple times in the Orchidaceae, with most known cases involving male Hymenoptera as pollinators. T
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September 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Did you know male wasps can get tricked by orchids into thinking they're females?
Pterostylis orchids use sexual deception as a pollination strategy, with fungus gnats (Diptera) falling victim, acting as the main pollinators of these deceptive plants! 🌍🧪👇
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Pterostylis orchids use sexual deception as a pollination strategy, with fungus gnats (Diptera) falling victim, acting as the main pollinators of these deceptive plants! 🌍🧪👇
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Speaker Spotlight!
Today we're sharing molecular biologist Glenn Yannic, whose research focuses on the consequences of environmental & anthropogenic changes on the genetic diversity of alpine & arctic species.
Book to see Glenn Nov 20 🌍🧪👇
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Today we're sharing molecular biologist Glenn Yannic, whose research focuses on the consequences of environmental & anthropogenic changes on the genetic diversity of alpine & arctic species.
Book to see Glenn Nov 20 🌍🧪👇
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Hybrid Day Meeting | Organismal Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World
Join us at the Linnean Society for a one-day symposium focused on the mechanisms and consequences of variation in organismal resilience
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September 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Speaker Spotlight!
Today we're sharing molecular biologist Glenn Yannic, whose research focuses on the consequences of environmental & anthropogenic changes on the genetic diversity of alpine & arctic species.
Book to see Glenn Nov 20 🌍🧪👇
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Today we're sharing molecular biologist Glenn Yannic, whose research focuses on the consequences of environmental & anthropogenic changes on the genetic diversity of alpine & arctic species.
Book to see Glenn Nov 20 🌍🧪👇
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Speaker Spotlight! 📣
Today we're highlighting Chloe Haberkorn, a biologist who specialises in evolutionary genomics, currently in yeast! Her PhD focused on resistance mechanisms in bed bugs (scream).
Come see Chloe on Nov 20 🧪🌍👇
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Today we're highlighting Chloe Haberkorn, a biologist who specialises in evolutionary genomics, currently in yeast! Her PhD focused on resistance mechanisms in bed bugs (scream).
Come see Chloe on Nov 20 🧪🌍👇
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Hybrid Day Meeting | Organismal Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World
Join us at the Linnean Society for a one-day symposium focused on the mechanisms and consequences of variation in organismal resilience
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September 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Speaker Spotlight! 📣
Today we're highlighting Chloe Haberkorn, a biologist who specialises in evolutionary genomics, currently in yeast! Her PhD focused on resistance mechanisms in bed bugs (scream).
Come see Chloe on Nov 20 🧪🌍👇
buff.ly/bLADJcsmsock...
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Today we're highlighting Chloe Haberkorn, a biologist who specialises in evolutionary genomics, currently in yeast! Her PhD focused on resistance mechanisms in bed bugs (scream).
Come see Chloe on Nov 20 🧪🌍👇
buff.ly/bLADJcsmsock...
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Machaerium species morphological characters can help delimit sections or clades, such as the width or shape of their leaflets! Here, their morphoanatomical characters were studied to understand their usefulness for taxonomy & classification! Read more below 🌍🧪👇
Diversity and leaflet anatomical characters evolution of Machaerium Pers. (Fabaceae – Faboideae)
Abstract. Taxonomic and phylogenetic studies of Machaerium species have demonstrated overlapping morphological characters that delimit sections and/or clad
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September 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Machaerium species morphological characters can help delimit sections or clades, such as the width or shape of their leaflets! Here, their morphoanatomical characters were studied to understand their usefulness for taxonomy & classification! Read more below 🌍🧪👇
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New Blog Day! 📣
Who's your daddy? This is the question asked by guest blogger @katyakolesnykova.bsky.social, breaking down Gabriela Bispo & co's paper on leatherback turtle mating systems! A long-time mystery, DNA analysis revealed a surprising truth 🌍🧪👇 A 🧵 (1/6)
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Who's your daddy? This is the question asked by guest blogger @katyakolesnykova.bsky.social, breaking down Gabriela Bispo & co's paper on leatherback turtle mating systems! A long-time mystery, DNA analysis revealed a surprising truth 🌍🧪👇 A 🧵 (1/6)
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Fathers Out Of The Blue: Leatherback Turtles Take a DNA Test
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September 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
New Blog Day! 📣
Who's your daddy? This is the question asked by guest blogger @katyakolesnykova.bsky.social, breaking down Gabriela Bispo & co's paper on leatherback turtle mating systems! A long-time mystery, DNA analysis revealed a surprising truth 🌍🧪👇 A 🧵 (1/6)
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Who's your daddy? This is the question asked by guest blogger @katyakolesnykova.bsky.social, breaking down Gabriela Bispo & co's paper on leatherback turtle mating systems! A long-time mystery, DNA analysis revealed a surprising truth 🌍🧪👇 A 🧵 (1/6)
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Body shape, a key trait in fish (they'd do wonders on Hinge), varies between geographic regions & sexes, reflecting adaptations to local environments. Here, body-shape variation among 3-spine sticklebacks was studied, revealing shape was mostly affected by sexual dimorphism! How? (1/2) 🧪🌍
August 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Body shape, a key trait in fish (they'd do wonders on Hinge), varies between geographic regions & sexes, reflecting adaptations to local environments. Here, body-shape variation among 3-spine sticklebacks was studied, revealing shape was mostly affected by sexual dimorphism! How? (1/2) 🧪🌍
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Terrestrial flatworms have helped uncover the evolutionary processes shaping #Biodiversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, as their limited dispersal & sensitivity to environmental change reflect the evolutionary history of the forest! 🌍🧪👇
Unravelling the cryptic diversity of the low-dispersal land planarian Cephaloflexa bergi to elucidate diversification processes in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Abstract. The terrestrial flatworm Cephaloflexa bergi (Tricladida: Platyhelminthes) is an excellent model for elucidating the evolutionary processes shapin
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August 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Terrestrial flatworms have helped uncover the evolutionary processes shaping #Biodiversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, as their limited dispersal & sensitivity to environmental change reflect the evolutionary history of the forest! 🌍🧪👇
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Tadpoles have...TEETH?! An evolutionary novelty of anuran tadpoles, the taxonomic distribution of keratinized labial teeth remains a mystery. Yet here, variation in row number was studied in a phylogenetic context!
If you're bitten by a tadpole do you turn into a frog..? 🌍🧪👇
If you're bitten by a tadpole do you turn into a frog..? 🌍🧪👇
Diversity and development of labial tooth row formulae in tadpoles
Abstract. Keratinized labial teeth of the oral apparatus are a conspicuous evolutionary novelty of anuran tadpoles. Although several comparative studies ha
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August 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Tadpoles have...TEETH?! An evolutionary novelty of anuran tadpoles, the taxonomic distribution of keratinized labial teeth remains a mystery. Yet here, variation in row number was studied in a phylogenetic context!
If you're bitten by a tadpole do you turn into a frog..? 🌍🧪👇
If you're bitten by a tadpole do you turn into a frog..? 🌍🧪👇
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SCREEAEAAEEEEEAAAAAAEAEAAA!!! That's bat for "Join our Bat Walks"! Every Wednesday at dusk in Battersea Park, book your place now (tickets are flying, just like bats...the only mammal to evolve true flight....) 🌍🧪🦇👇
Getting Batty at Battersea
Learn how to use bat detectors to spot their squeaky echolocation calls with us, and how to identify different species.
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August 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
SCREEAEAAEEEEEAAAAAAEAEAAA!!! That's bat for "Join our Bat Walks"! Every Wednesday at dusk in Battersea Park, book your place now (tickets are flying, just like bats...the only mammal to evolve true flight....) 🌍🧪🦇👇
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📣New Blog Day! 🚨
Ever wondered why birds have whiskers? Many theories have been proposed, from eye protection to prey capture, but all lacked conclusive scientific evidence...until now! Guest blogger Michael Sellgren breaks this down in our latest blog, a 🧵(1/6)🌍🧪
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Ever wondered why birds have whiskers? Many theories have been proposed, from eye protection to prey capture, but all lacked conclusive scientific evidence...until now! Guest blogger Michael Sellgren breaks this down in our latest blog, a 🧵(1/6)🌍🧪
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Why Do Birds Have Whiskers?
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August 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
📣New Blog Day! 🚨
Ever wondered why birds have whiskers? Many theories have been proposed, from eye protection to prey capture, but all lacked conclusive scientific evidence...until now! Guest blogger Michael Sellgren breaks this down in our latest blog, a 🧵(1/6)🌍🧪
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Ever wondered why birds have whiskers? Many theories have been proposed, from eye protection to prey capture, but all lacked conclusive scientific evidence...until now! Guest blogger Michael Sellgren breaks this down in our latest blog, a 🧵(1/6)🌍🧪
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