Ecology & Zoology
- Males- Live With Females And Extend Reproductive Life 20 Percent
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Living with a female mouse can extend the reproductive life of a male mouse by as much as 20 percent, according to a study conducted by Ralph Brinster and a team of other researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and repor ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2009 - 5:06pm
- How Do Dogs Walk? Even Animal Anatomy Experts Get It Wrong 50 Percent Of The Time
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Despite the fact that most of us see our four-legged friends walking around every day, most people (including many experts in natural history museums and illustrators for veterinary anatomy text books) apparently still don't know how they do it. A new ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2009 - 12:58pm
- Is Your Skeleton Running?
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From the designer Mark Weaver (Hat tip: Morbid Anatomy) ...
Blog Post - Nicholas Horton - Jan 26 2009 - 2:41pm
- Lignin In Seaweed May Mean A Billion-Year Revision Of Plant Evolution Timeline, Say Researchers
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Plants' ability to sprout upward using their own woody tissues has long been considered one of the characteristics separating the land kind from aquatic plants, which rely on water to support them. ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2009 - 6:24pm
- Arctic Surprise- A Tropical, Freshwater, Asian Turtle Puts A New Twist In Ancient Migration
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A new find in Arctic Canada strongly suggests that animals migrated from Asia to North America not around Alaska, as once thought, but directly across a freshwater sea floating atop the warm, salty Arctic Ocean. In 2006, John Tarduno, professor of geophy ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2009 - 11:55am
- Sequential Hermaphroditism- Some Animals Change Their Sex But Why Don't More?
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Most animals, like humans, have separate sexes. We are born, live out our lives and reproduce as one sex or the other, but some animals live as one sex in part of their lifetime and then switch to the other sex, a phenomenon called sequential hermaphrodit ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2009 - 11:53am
- 10 New Amphibian Species Discovered In Colombia
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Scientists today announced the discovery of 10 amphibians believed to be new to science, including a spiky-skinned, orange-legged rain frog, three poison dart frogs and three glass frogs, so called because their transparent skin can reveal internal organs. ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2009 - 2:29pm
- Pepper, Cure Thyself! Hotter Chilis Aren't Better Against Blight
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It seems that a new study is always uncovering new health benefits of hot peppers. Garnering a high-profile endorsement from Hillary Clinton as well as doctors and scientists, peppers' heat producing chemical capsaicin has been linked to benefits ra ...
Article - Stephanie Pulford - Feb 4 2009 - 4:47pm
- Titanoboa- Titanic Boa Fossil From Colombia Is World's Largest Snake
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Excavations in Colombia co-organized by Carlos Jaramillo, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and Jonathan Bloch, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History, ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2009 - 12:33pm
- Seeing In The Deep
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With pressures hundreds of times that at sea level and temperatures nearly freezing, it's amazing that anything can survive in the deep ocean. The vast amount of space and correspondingly sparse distribution of living organisms simply adds to the seem ...
Article - Chris Rollins - Feb 12 2009 - 1:05pm
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