Blood, poop, and carcasses: How feasting bugs are helping map biodiversity ^0.9%

Popular Science - By Alice Sun, Knowable Magazine - 7/5/2026, 4:07 PM

Optimism Bias 19.5% - Representativeness Heuristic 12.2% - Appeal to Authority 11.4%

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Searching deep in the DeLuca Preserve in central Florida, Lawrence Reeves found eastern diamondback rattlesnakes, hispid cotton rats, eastern narrow-mouthed toads and gopher tortoises. But he didn’t spot these creatures by sight: Reeves and his colleagues detected their DNA... more