Dwarfed elephants once called Sicily home On the island, the ancient animals shrunk to the size of a horse.
By Jeanne Timmons New York Times July 17, 2021 10:21pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Elephants extinct relatives once roamed far and wide across the planet. When they settled onto islands, some species evolutionary course changed direction in a dramatic fashion.
In a paper published this month, scientists found clues to just how much island living can rapidly alter the evolution of these animals. Evolution on islands is a quite intriguing field of science, since it can be seen as an experiment of nature or evolution in action, said Sina Baleka, the paper s lead author and a paleogenetic
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.- Theres an interesting story behind the curation of the latest exhibition at the Galerie Kornfeld, in the resurgent City West region of the German capital. The show is called The Day I Never Met You, and it is a billed as being a conversation between the contemporary British artist Alexander Adams, and the late Georgian painter Natela Iankoshvili, whose estate is represented by the gallery. On first viewing one might assume that the painters were chosen because of their differences, rather than their similarities. Adams has renounced colour, painting in black, white and many shades of grey. Iankoshvili who died in 2007 loved applying broad brush-stokes of vibrant greens, yellows and blues on black-primed canvases. But when you look closely into the art and the artists, the similarities abound. Both apply themselves to landscapes and . More
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