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Pathology is my jam 🔬 Here for my two greatest passions in life: science & silly animals

Sir David Attenborough laying in the sand next to a turtle.
So these pups aren’t really dire wolves at all, then? It all comes down to how you define species, says Shapiro. “Species concepts are human classification systems, and everybody can disagree and everyone can be right,” she says. “You can use the phylogenetic [evolutionary relationships] species concept to determine what you’re going to call a species, which is what you are implying… We are using the morphological species concept and saying, if they look like this animal, then they are the animal.”
Cephalopod eye with a dumbbell-shaped pupil
U - shaped cephalopod pupil
Picture of a W - shaped cephalopod eye
Three different pictures of cephalopod eyes. One W, one U and one dumbbell shaped
A table listing the 11 most anticipated studies of 2025