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Study Take-Aways:
Different African populations were genetically interrelated suggesting abundant gene flow across Africa such that all African population should be considered together as single subspecies.
There appeared a striking genomic distance between leopards living in Asia vs. leopards in Africa.
Asian leopards are more genetically separated from African leopards than brown bear species are from polar bear species, the researchers found.
The two leopard groups actually diverged around the same time as Neanderthals split apart from modern humans.
The genetic differences between African and Asian leopards have been maintained since 500,000 to 600,000 years ago. Asian leopards retain markedly less overall genetic variation than is seen in African leopards.
Top 10 Bizarre New Weather-Related Phenomena
For generations, weather has been a staple of both humor and comedy. Mark Twain wrote that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was his attempt to write a book without any weather in it. The “weather forecast for tonight,” comedian George Carlin said, was, in a word, “dark.” And writer Charles Dudley Warner noted that “everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
Despite such witticisms, weather in general, an effect of wind and sun (on Earth, at least) is vital to our welfare and, indeed, our very existence, and it is taken so seriously, by farmers, researchers, and almost everyone else, that a whole branch of knowledge, meteorology, is dedicated to its study.
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FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. - Global warming or climate change. It doesn t matter what you call it. What matters is that right now it is having a direct and dramatic effect on marine environments across our planet. More immediately pressing than future climate change is the increasing frequency and severity of extreme underwater heatwaves that we are already seeing around the world today, Lauren Nadler, Ph.D., who is an assistant professor in Nova Southeastern University s (NSU) Halmos College of Arts and Sciences . This phenomenon is what we wanted to both simulate and understand.
Nadler is a co-author of a new study on this topic, which you can find published online at