CachyOS Becomes the Most Popular Desktop Linux Distro on ProtonDB (in video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVZ10lfpla0
#evolution #market #linux #linuxgaming #update #foss #distro #cachyos

#Wildflowers evolved fast enough to survive a historic #drought

By Andrei Ionescu
March 13, 2026

Excerpt: "A potted #ScarletMonkeyFlower can look fine one day and collapse a few days later if you forget to water it. But out in the wild, some populations of this same species made it through #California’s brutal four-year drought.

"The wildflowers didn’t survive because the drought 'wasn’t that bad,' or because the plants found hidden water. They survived because, according to a new study, they evolved fast enough to keep up.

"The researchers tracked scarlet monkeyflower populations in #Oregon and California for more than a decade.

"The team reports something scientists have long discussed but rarely captured in nature from start to finish: climate-driven decline, rapid genetic adaptation across the whole genome, and then recovery in some populations.

"In other words, '#EvolutionaryRescue' happening in the real world, not just in theory or in lab experiments."

Read more:
https://www.earth.com/news/wildflowers-evolved-fast-enough-to-survive-a-historic-drought/

#Superblooms #Evolution #ClimateChangeAdaptation #Flowers #ClimateChange #ExtremeDrought #Wildflowers

Tiny, long-armed dinosaur leads to rethink of dinosaur miniaturization

Small size seems to have come before a change in diet for a tiny dinosaur lineage.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/tiny-long-armed-dinosaur-leads-to-rethink-of-dinosaur-miniaturization/#biology #dinosaurs #evolution #paleontology #science

Parrots’ Brilliantly Colorful Plumage Created By Chemistry And Physics

"Parrots use the same molecules to create a variety of plumage colors but these molecules create different colors based on how they are physically arranged inside the feather structure"

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