All Field Museum articles
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NewsThe mystery of the secretly sexual lichens
Researchers were shocked to find that a type of lichen called Lepraria, long assumed to be asexual, still has the genes that govern sexual reproduction.
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NewsIntestinal contents of thrushes killed in window collisions reveal shifting gut microbiomes
A study of bodies of migratory birds killed in window collisions over the years helps to uncover the relationship between birds and the microbes living in their guts—which appears to be wildly different from mammals and their microbiomes.