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Water webs: connecting spiders and residents in the Southwest

If you are a cricket and it is a dry season on the San Pedro River in Arizona, on your nighttime ramblings to eat leaves, you are more likely to be ambushed by thirsty wolf spiders, or so a June 19 study suggests, published in the journal Ecology, and featured in the journal Science. more...

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New "Timetree of Life" Initiative Illuminates the Antiquity of Life on Earth

Sudhir Kumar and Penn State colleague Blair Hedges have published a book and Web resource that explores the history of life on Earth. The Timetree of Life book and TimeTreeWeb debut this week. more...

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