Ecology & Zoology

Mura's Saddleback Tamarin- New Monkey Discovered In Brazil

A new monkey has been discovered in a remote region of the Amazon in Brazil, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The monkey is related to saddleback tamarins, which include several species of monkeys known for their distinctively marked b ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2009 - 4:47pm

Why Are Phytophagous Insects Typically Specialists?

This is my course assignment of Evolutionary Ecology of Stockholm University,Sweden in the year of 2009. Abstract Specialization character of phytophagous insects is one of the key examples of insect-plant relationship. Host specificity of insect is requir ...

Article - Arifin Sandhi - Jul 8 2009 - 11:43am

Cambrian Explosion And Isotope Geology Of Carbonates 101

If you've read your history and wondered about when the next Ice Age is coming, you can thank global warming it hasn't happened.    But it could be worse.   Earth's 4.5 billion years have seen several instances where temperatures changed dra ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2009 - 3:38pm

Dog Bark Gets A Science Definition (And It Doesn't Involve Communication With Humans)

Dogs aren't the only animals that bark, they are just the most famous. Deer, monkeys and even birds also bark but what makes dogs different is a subject of interest in a new evolutionary biology study. In a recent Behavioural Processes paper, research ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2009 - 7:51am

The Lost World Of Mega Dung

We can learn a lot about extinct giant South American mammals from 30-40 million years ago thanks the random process of fossilization.    Even their ancient 'mega-dung' has a tale to tell scientists and we can thank the unheralded dung beetle. Th ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2009 - 9:28pm

Rumex Hymenosepalus- The Plant That Waters Itself

University of Haifa-Oranim researchers have managed to make out the “self-irrigating” mechanism of Rumex hymenosepalus, the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water than otherwise expected for a plant in this region based on ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2009 - 3:44pm

The Value Of Variation- Ecology Takes A Mathematical View

The three-spine stickleback, tiny fish that thrive in oceans and in fresh water, appear to be the same yet ecologists are finding that they are actually a diverse collection of very specialized individuals.   Understanding the ecological causes and consequ ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2009 - 11:31am

Who's More Rational, You Or An Ant?

Humans, bah.  Multimodal, egg-headed, tool-using, bipedal, opposing-thumbed existence is so 2008.   Ants are where it's at, to the delight of neo-rationalists everywhere (and Edward O. Wilson too). They can accomplish tasks a lot more rationally than ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2009 - 2:46pm

Cryptomartus Hindi- 300 Million Year Old Spider Ancestor Gets Imaged For First Time

Scientists at Imperial College London have created detailed 3D computer models of two fossilized specimens of ancient creatures called Cryptomartus hindi and Eophrynus prestvicii that lived around 300 million years ago and are closely related to modern-day ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 5 2009 - 11:42am

Gecko's All-Terrain Toes Are All About The Angles

Geckos have the uncanny ability to traverse even the trickiest terrain without so much as a slip. Until now, it has been unknown when and how they switch on their they all-foot grip. Scientists at the University of Calgary and Clemson University in South ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2009 - 3:18pm