{"id":259,"date":"2003-01-28T02:50:46","date_gmt":"2003-01-28T02:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=259"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:35:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:35:30","slug":"walking-stick-flying-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"walking stick, flying stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stick insects, famed for their extraordinary  ability to look just like, well, sticks, are now famous for something  altogether different. They are the first creatures known to have  re-evolved the ability to fly. Michael Whiting and his colleagues at  Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, reported in the Jan. 16 issue  of <em>Nature<\/em> that the insects have lost and re-evolved wings at least four  times over the past 300 million years. That&#8217;s not supposed to happen: A  key evolutionary concept is that once a complex anatomical feature such  as a wing or a leg is lost, it can&#8217;t come back. The surprising finding  comes from DNA data from 37 stick-insect species that was collected as  researchers were constructing the creatures&#8217; family tree. Whiting  suspects that re-evolution may have taken place in cockroaches and other  insects as well. The theory of evolution may undergo a revolution if  re-evolution does indeed exist. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 1\/28\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stick insects, famed for their extraordinary ability to look just like, well, sticks, are now famous for something altogether different. They are the first creatures known to have re-evolved the ability to fly. Michael Whiting and his colleagues at Brigham &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=259\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}