Tag: fish

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Author
Giuseppe Sermonti

Date
November 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Zoology
Tagged
, Arezzo, biology, birds, eggs, evolution, fish, fleas, Francesco Redi, gall flies, Giuseppe Sermonti, life, meat, microbes, Nobel Prize, reptiles, spontaneous generation, test tube, viruses, worms}

Francesco Redi and the Founding of Modern Biology

_{Giuseppe Sermonti
November 17, 2025

Biology, Zoology

4}

Why was it so important that the flea should have come out of an egg and not simply from filth? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beards, birds, brassiere, cows, Deborah Kellerman, DNA switch, EMBO Reports, evolution, Evolving Minds Project, fingernails, fish, flies, health, horned lizard, Ig Nobel Prizes, Igs, Improbable Research, jaws, jellyfish, just-so stories, Lasker Prize, leopard, lizards, mammals, Nature (journal), pangolin, paw pads, protocells, pufferfish, Regina Nuzzo, seahorse, storytelling, super-alcohol, supernova, Titan, turtle, Vladimir Leksa, vole}

What’s More Deserving of Ig Nobel Prizes than Evolutionary Just-So Stories?

_{David Coppedge
September 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

The committee passed up some research that would have raised eyebrows and given the crowd some hearty laughs. Read More ›

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post

Date
July 1, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, Aril Slotte, Barents Sea, fish, herring, Institute for Marine Research, intelligence, Katarina Zimmer, larvae, Lofoten, migration, Nautilus, Norway, plankton, spawning, zooplankton}

When Schools of Fish Lose Their Memories

_{Science and Culture
July 1, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

4}

Because we don’t tend to think of fish as being very smart, we don’t think they could have memories that matter. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 28, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Arts
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstractions, amphibians, animal art, Antone Martinho-Truswel, bear marks, beaver logs, birds, bison paths, cars, cave bears, cave painting, cephalopods, driving, fish, Flight, human art, human consciousness, human exceptionalism, Lascaux cave, Michel Lorblanchet, natural selection, Pech-Merle cave, reptiles, Sarah Newman, University of Sydney}

Birds Don’t Drive Buicks Because of … Evolution, You See

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 28, 2025

Archaeology, Arts, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

This all seems a roundabout way of saying that humans are exceptional. And here’s the question that no one in evolutionary biology has the answer to. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, alligators, birds, brains, cognition, crabs, crocodiles, evolution, fish, Gilles De Meester, intelligence, intelligent design, Irina Epstein, lobsters, mammals, manta ray, Matthew Wills, Max Planck Institute, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, octopus, reptiles, rodents, Simon Baeckens, snakes, tool-use}

Get Smart: Recognizing Reptile Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 17, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

Mammals, birds, and reptiles all developed different smart survival strategies on their own. It sounds like convergent evolution or intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, babies, computer software, Endangered Species Act, fish, gestating human babies, image of God, insects, invertebrates, Jeff Sebo, life, mammals, microbes, moral agents, moral patients, moral responsibility, NYU, philosophers, The Moral Circle, universe}

Microbes as “Moral Agents”? Bioethicist Says Yes

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 14, 2025

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

5}

Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 7, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, Australian National University, cleverness, females, fish, intelligence, males, octopuses, Research, sexual selection}

Did Sexual Selection Make Male Mosquitofish Really Smart?

_{Science and Culture
March 7, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

It’s worth considering that the fish who can solve mazes may also be better able to stay out of the way of predators than the ones who couldn’t. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain circuits, endothermy, fish, intelligence, lizards, New York Times, octopuses, reptiles, warm-bloodedness}

There Is No Known Evolutionary Rule for Animal Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 31, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

Got a pet lizard? Good news. Scientists say it can be trained to do tasks and tricks. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bony fish, buoyancy, ears, fish, hearing, humans, Nature (journal), neurons, pressure, sounds, swim bladder}

Study Unravels the Mystery of Fish Hearing

_{Eric Cassell
July 31, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

9}

The fish directional hearing algorithm appears to be another example of a complex programmed behavior in animals. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
July 11, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, convergent evolution, epigenetics, evolution, eyes, fish, gene expression, genetic material, guppies, intelligent design, neo-Darwinian theory, parents, pigmentation, random changes, random mutation, random processes}

Blind Cavefish: Evolutionary Icon, or an Example of Preprogrammed Adaptation?

_{Emily Reeves
July 11, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

There is another model that could explain the transformations of the cavefish. This model is called continuous environmental tracking and it is design-based. Read More ›