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We can now farm far more species than ever before in controlled, natural conditions, creating happy fish.
The 200 or so species of octopuses are mollusks belonging to the order cephalopoda, Greek for head-feet.
But it turns out that asymmetry is pretty important, too, and more common than you might think, from crabs with one giant pincer claw to snail species whose shells' always coil in the same direction.
Some species of beans only climb up their trellises clockwise, others, only counterclockwise, and even though the human body looks pretty symmetrical on the outside, it's a different story on the inside.
When our sexual desires are satisfied, we are thrown back into our tormented existences, and we succeed only in maintaining the species and perpetuating the cycle of human drudgery.
This species truly has made a remarkable comeback.
Recent studies have also found a link between obesity and variations in the bacteria species that live in our digestive systems.
We're in danger of losing 50 percent of all the living species on earth by the end of this century.
In fact, this earthly evolution has given rise to over 1100 known species of tardigrades and there are probably many others yet to be discovered.
We don't yet have the blueprint for exactly which good bacteria a robust gut needs, but we do know that it's important for a healthy microbiome to have a variety of bacterial species.
These can place powerful evolutionary pressures on animals to adapt, which in turn makes the aging process different across species.
When it comes to size, it's often, but not always, the case that larger species have a longer lifespan than smaller ones.
This, and other increases in life expectancy make us possibly the only species on Earth to take control over our natural fate.
Along with over 5,000 other species, they're mammals, or members of class mammalia.
There were once hundreds of monotreme species, but there are only five left: four species of echidnas and the duck-billed platypus.
Like birds, reptiles, fish, dinosaurs, and others, these species lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young.
In some South American species, males have a tiny washboard and scraper on their penis, which produces a song that reverberates throughout the female's body when they mate.
In some bed bug species, the females have evolved an entirely new set of genitalia on their right hand flanks where the males usually pierce them.
So, genitalia differs so much, not just to fascinate us, but because in every species, they're the result of a furious evolutionary tango of sex that has been going on for millions of years and will continue for millions of years to come.
Thinking it might be huge unknown species of North American lion, Jefferson warned explorers Lewis and Clark to keep an eye out for this mysterious predator.
Dozens of species lived across North, Central and South America, alongside other ancient creatures like mastodons and giant armadillos.
Researchers think that ground sloths could have been pushed out by an oncoming ice age, or competition with other species, maybe humans, who arrived in the region around the time most of the sloths went extinct.
Today, there are six species left living in the rainforest canopies of Central and South America.
Sloths have a multi-chambered stomach that takes up a third of their body, and depending on the species, they can spend five to seven days, or even weeks, processing a meal.
Long lines with hundreds of hooks or huge nets round up massive amounts of fish, along with other species, like seabirds, turtles, and dolphins.
And as the distance and depth of fishing have expanded, so has the variety of species we target.
It turns out that different species have slightly different structures of collagen, so if you get a collagen profile of an unknown bone, you can compare it to those of known species, and, who knows, maybe you get a match.
LN: And he processed it, and compared it to 37 known and modern-day mammal species.
For nearly 40 of the 45 million years that camels have been around, you could only find them in North America, around 20 different species, maybe more.
And to the Monkey, humans are just another animal species.
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