There’s a lot going on in the world of creepy-crawly things.
It’s been a busy few weeks in the news in so very many ways, including for science stories about creepy-crawlies and other unsightly animals that make most people—unfairly—recoil in horror.
you scream. Well how about, most recently of all ,: puddle-dwelling wormlike organisms known as rotifers long ago stole DNA from bacteria, incorporated it into their own genome and—when feeling under the weather—use this DNA to produce their own antibiotic remedies. It’s likely that rotifers evolved this incredible trick more than a million years before Alexander Fleming dabbled with “” to stumble upon penicillin.
“You need only to look at university zoology courses,” Erica McAlister, a fly expert at the Natural History Museum in London, explained to me. “Most courses are set up to look at the conservation of vertebrates, the genomics of vertebrates, the cognition of vertebrates, the physiology of vertebrates. Yet to understand the true picture, we need to understand all life,” she said. “With animals, it’s insects and other invertebrates that dominate.
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