I've got your missing links right here (9 June 2012)

Top picks This is really important: a new technique deduces a foetus' genome... from its parents' DNA. Good coverage by Alison Motluk. Thrilling story, spanning 1.75 billion yrs, about how an undersea eruption created an American town. By Dana Hunter. Important, for anyone covering evolution. If platypuses wrote the biology textbooks, by T. Ryan Gregory. Guy creates music based on animals. He has good taste. Dugong! Tardigrade! Honey badger! By Veronique Greenwood We can now watch a fruit fly developing, cell by cell, in real time, by Lauren Gravitz "BP has subpoenaed the private emails of scientists who studied Deepwater Horizon.” Keep it classy folks. By Brandon Keim. Humboldt squid are absolutely terrifying. Thankfully they don't hunt in coordinated pac... OH &%£$. By Craig McClain. Child considers manatee. Manatee considers child. Stunning photo We aren't possibly lucky enough to get a *second* epic Robert Krulwich commencement speech, right? Wait, we ...