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Susan Milius

United States, Washington, D.C.

Staff Writer at Science News

Biodiversity enthusiast. Writer for Science News magazine. (Tweets my own opinion.) Awed fan of invertebrates, fungi and pretty much all of the tangled bank.

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  • 3 weeks ago | snexplores.org | Susan Milius

    biologist: A scientist involved in the study of living things. cartilage: (adj. cartilaginous) A type of strong connective tissue often found in joints, the nose and ear. In certain primitive fishes, such as sharks and rays, cartilage provides an internal structure — or skeleton — for their bodies. estuary: (adj. estuarine) The mouth of a large river, where it empties into the ocean and freshwater and saltwater mix. Such regions are often nurseries for young fish.

  • 4 weeks ago | sciencenews.org | Susan Milius

    For the first time, biologists have linked the ribbony “tails” streaming from big, green luna moths’ hind wings with, of all things, a cozy climate. Those dangling wing tails rank among such evolution-was-drunk novelties as the narwhal’s single unicorn tusk or the peacock’s giant feather train.

  • 1 month ago | sciencenews.org | Susan Milius

    Here’s a great case of real life turning out to be stranger than fiction. From baby’s first storybook to sly adult graphic novels, the story we’re told is the same: Male frogs croak with the bottom of their mouths ballooning out in one fat, rounded bubble. Yet “that’s actually only half the species of frogs,” says herpetologist Agustín Elías-Costa of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Science Museum in Buenos Aires. The diversity of body parts for ribbitting is astounding.

  • 2 months ago | sciencenews.org | Susan Milius

    The first bat-wearable microphone is helping biologists study the bats’ good safety record at avoiding collisions in rush hour air. On summer evenings, in around a minute, some 2,000 greater mouse-tailed bats can crowd out of a cave opening only about three meters square in Israel’s Hula Valley, says neuroecologist Yossi Yovel of Tel Aviv University. From a distance, their emergence looks like “a plume of smoke,” he says.

  • Mar 25, 2025 | sciencenews.org | Susan Milius

    Sharks may not be the sharp-toothed silent type after all. The clicking of flattened teeth, discovered by accident, could be “the first documented case of deliberate sound production in sharks,” evolutionary biologist Carolin Nieder, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, and colleagues propose March 26 in Royal Society Open Science.

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17 Jun 22

RT @Noosh_Sheidaei: Since peanuts are shaped like chromosomes, here is a mitotic peanut cake. If we wait long enough there will be two cake…

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16 Dec 21

RT @sheborg: @Myrmecos Yes, common here, and they have the best feet. The best. https://t.co/AdfspGpZvl

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5 Nov 21

RT @MarySalcedo: I think....if I ever have a super hero name, I'll be called Sparmannia Fla-vah because it might be the coolest name I've…