A new understanding of reptile colouration

Published: 3 February 2023

Snakes and mice don’t look alike. But much of what we know about skin colouration and patterning in vertebrates generally, including in snakes, is based on lab mice. However, there are limits to...

Honey, I shrunk the ants: how environment controls size

Published: 11 March 2015

Until now scientists have believed that the variations in traits such as our height, skin colour, tendency to gain weight or not, intelligence, tendency to develop certain diseases, etc., all of...

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