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It might also explain similarities and differences between species found by anatomists like Steno.
Mosquitoes have been around for over a hundred million years and over that time have coevolved with all sorts of species, including our own.
There are actually thousands of species of mosquitos in the world, but they all share one insidious quality: they suck blood, and they're really, really good at sucking blood.
We are humans after all, and we're pretty good at getting rid of species.
If we got rid of them, they argue, another species would simply take their place and we'd probably have far fewer deaths from malaria.
Almost 2,000 insect species are turned into food, forming a big part of everyday diets for two billion people around the world.
Species in those regions are also large, diverse, and tend to congregate in groups or swarms that make them easy to harvest.
Human ones weigh 1.5 kilograms, elephant brains 5 kg, and whale brains 9 kg, yet on a per weight basis, humans pack in more neurons than any other species.
All species in an ecosystem, from the creatures in a coral reef to the fish in a lake to the lions on the savannah, are directly or indirectly nourished by dead stuff.
The resulting food web is so connected that almost every species is no more than two degrees from detritus, even us humans.
Thinking about something as simple as body symmetry can help us dig far into our evolutionary past and understand where we, as a species, have come from.
It turns out that caves are repositories of amazing life-forms, species that we never knew existed before.
In many species, all the winged males and winged virgin queens from all the nearby colonies in the population each leave from their different nests and meet at a central place to mate, using pheromones to guide each other to a breeding ground.
Most species of ants have little or no sense of sight and can only smell things in their vicinity.
And some species have another capability known as recruitment.
And so in the first instance they have a little bit more water than us, about 95 percent water, and they can lose a little bit more than us, like 10 to about 70 percent, depending on the species, but for short periods only.
There are only 135 flowering plant species that can do this.
I'm going to show you a video of the resurrection process of these three species in that order.
Well, all stresses, particularly drought stress, results in the formation of free radicals, or reactive oxygen species, which are highly damaging and can cause crop death.
Now, I wish I could have shown Painlevé the moment where we found biofluorescent seahorses in the exact same species that he was studying.
And here in the Solomon Islands, there's only a few thousand breeding females of this species left, and this is one of the hotspots for them.
Pleurobot is a robot that we designed to closely mimic a salamander species called Pleurodeles waltl.
A handful of species on Earth share a seemingly mysterious trait: a menstrual cycle.
But in humans and a few other species, the placenta actually penetrates right into the mother's circulatory system to directly access her blood stream.
How is it that so many intergalactic species in movies and TV just happen to speak perfect English?
In fact, one of the most famous fictional universal translators, the Babel fish from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", is not a machine at all but a small creature that translates the brain waves and nerve signals of sentient species through a form of telepathy.
And another recent report suggests that of our largest predatory species, such as swordfish and bluefin tuna, over 90 percent has disappeared since the 1950s.
And if it was a large predatory species, it might have gone through the coast of Fukushima yesterday.
And then there's 500 species of fish being farmed currently.
You can farm one pound of fish with just one pound of feed, and depending on species, even less.
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