Why are tuna shaped like torpedoes, while reef fish are often tall and flat? Why do some deep-sea fish have enormous eyes, while others have mouths that point sharply upwards or downwards? A study by Victoria Dixon & Isabel Smallegange Originally published on Newcastle University’s From blog The extraordinary diversity of fish body shapes is…
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DEBBIES wins Open Research Award – and the science it has unlocked
The DEBBIES project has been awarded 2nd place in the Newcastle University Open Research Awards 2025. This recognition means a lot because it is the collective outcome of eight years of student-led research, shared openly and built collaboratively. This blog post celebrates the students whose work built DEBBIES — and highlights the science that their…
Shaping the pace-of-life: what’s the role of development in evolution?
Mainstream evolution theory suggests that genes and the environment shape how organisms look and behave, but how they grow up also matters. What is the gene-centred view of evolution? The gene-centric view of evolution assumes that genes in interaction with the environment determine how living organisms look and behave. This theory is also known as gene selection…
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