A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

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In Lake Malawi, hundreds of species of cichlid fish have evolved with astonishing speed, offering scientists a rare opportunity to study how biodiversity arises.

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Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time ...