An international research group led by Junko Ueda, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellow, has made surprising observations that most galaxy collisions in the nearby Universe — within 40 - 600 million light - years from Earth — result in so - called disc galaxies. (sciencedaily.com)
This species» intimate mating strategy proved to be one of the team's most surprising observations, challenging all that is known about conventional octopus reproduction. (sciencedaily.com)
But an even more surprising observation was that the cells didn't go away — they hung around at a 10-fold increase over prepregnancy levels for more than 100 days after birth (the equivalent of 4 years to 5 years in humans). (sciencemag.org)