rapid evolution changes theory

Environmental change 'triggers rapid evolution'

By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News

Changes to their surroundings can trigger "rapid evolution" in species as they adopt traits to help them survive in the new conditions, a study shows. Studying soil mites in a laboratory, researchers found that the invertebrates' age of maturity almost doubled in just 20-or-so generations. It had been assumed that evolutionary change only occurred over a much longer timescale

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could cryptids be the result of rapid evolution and not be prehistoric remnants as some think?

Loch Ness Monster Anniversary

Loch Ness monster believers and sceptics mark anniversary

Science festival symposium debates monster's existence 80 years on from first modern sighting

By Jonathan Sale

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bigfoot hunter and the Jersey devil in the news

Peter Byrne’S Search Goes On: Acclaimed Bigfoot Hunter Continues Quest At Coast

Peter Byrne has been engaged in what he describes as the “Big Searches” for almost his entire life; his Bigfoot search alone has spanned 50 years. His first experience was in the 1960s, working in northern California.

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Secrets of the Blue Ridge: The Jersey Devil, and Other Local News

By Phil James

According to editors of several Virginia newspapers in 1910, it was said to have been the “most extraordinary combination of beast and bird ever seen in these parts.”“These parts” being referenced were near the village of Hightown on U.S. Route 250 west of Staunton and close to the West Virginia line. That was where David Freeze was reported to have been surprised by a strange creature passing through the sky above him.
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strange fish, rare otter and huge spider

Japanese aquarium shows off mysterious fish with clear blood

  Sophie Warnes

The deep blue sea is home to many a strange creature - giant squids, fish that look like blobs, and jellyfish that look like UFOs - but now we can add transparent-blooded fish to that list of strange-but-true animals.

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River Otter Captured On Camera In Boulder

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New spider as big as your face found in Sri Lanka

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Pacific shark species absence

Artefacts offer Pacific shark species absence clues

By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News

Nineteenth Century tools made from sharks' teeth suggest that two species of shark used to populate the Central Pacific but are no longer present.Using artefacts from museums, a team of US researchers found that spot-tail and dusky sharks used to inhabit the reefs surrounding the Gilbert Islands.

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