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Rare 'dinosaur' tree gets home at Regina Floral Conservatory

A tree once considered extinct is now growing inside the Regina Floral Conservatory. The Wollemia nobilis is a species of coniferous tree that is still critically endangered.

From the CBC News-2026-10-13:20:5:82

Fossil researchers believe dog-sized raptor may have fed on larger tyrannosaur

Researchers at the University of Alberta have made a "jaw-dropping discovery" that a raptor dinosaur may have dined on a much larger tyrannosaur.

From the CBC News-2026-10-13:14:5:81

Mapping the genetics of a giant: New research decodes bison DNA

New research decoding their DNA is helping to shed light on how the collapse and slow, scattered return of herds to the landscapes they once dominated has forever changed the mighty species.

From the CBC News-2026-10-13:14:5:80

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Royal Society Publishing has recently published a theme issue of Philosophical Transactions B under the 'Subscribe to Open' 2026 initiative: Ecological epigenetics at the intersection of behaviour and life history variation in non-model animals compiled and edited by Blanca Jimeno, Mark Ravinet, Jesús Martínez-Padilla and Kees van Oers, and the articles are FREE to access at www.bit.ly/PTB1955.

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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, by Cat Bohannon, from Vintage Canada, (Mar 21).

Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea, by Matt Ridley, from Harper. (Mar 7).

The journal Insects has a call for papers for a special issue on "Evolutionary and Ecological Mechanisms of Plant Defense Against Insects". (Feb 28).

Mismatch Theories in Evolutionary Medicine: A Philosophical Exploration, by Jonas Pold, from Springer. (Feb 21).

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Oct 12 20:00	Phylogenomics confirms Palaeoptera monophyly and illuminates the origin of winged insects - Shiyu Du, et al. (PNAS)
Oct 12 20:00	Coordinated transformations of the labyrinth and occiput during the dinosaur-bird transition - Guillermo Navalón, et al. (PNAS)
Oct 12 20:00	The honey bee stinger: An unusual pump with collapsible double pistons - Fiorella Ramirez-, et al. (PNAS)

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Dear all,
If you are interested in learning how to analyse low-coverage whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data, there is still time to join our online course, “Population Genomic Inference from Low-Coverage Whole-Genome Sequencing Data,” taking place on 26–29 October.
 
Course dates: 26–29 October

Course website: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/course64/
During this course, we will explore workflows based on genotype likelihoods, applicable to both whole-genome and reduced-representation sequencing studies. We will discuss the principles underlying the generation, processing, and analysis of low-coverage sequencing data for population genomic inference.
The course will focus primarily on methods and algorithms implemented in the ANGSD software package and associated tools. We will also provide best-practice guidelines and discuss how to make the most of low-coverage genomic resequencing data in your research.
 
For the full list of our courses and workshops, please visit:
https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/
 
Best regards,
Carlo 
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