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Florida Museum of Natural History

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In a scientific first, Lepidoptera expert Andrei Sourakov has altered the shape of moth wings in a study that suggests moths and butterflies may have independently used the same type of gene to evolve tails. 

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Photo by Andrei Sourakov

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