Ecology & Zoology
- No Free Lunch In Nature – The Dilemma Of Plants Fighting Infections
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Scientists from Tübingen say they have revealed an evolutionary dilemma- plants that are more resistant to disease grow more slowly and are less competitive than susceptible relatives when enemies are rare. Individuals of one and the same plant species oft ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2010 - 1:01am
- Hundsheim Rhino- An Extinction Mystery Gets Solved
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Extinction is nothing new; more than 99% of all species that have ever lived we will never know about. Extinction is entirely natural and, if you've ever watched someone's car weaving on the highway while they talk on the phone and drink a coffe ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 16 2010 - 9:04am
- Jetting Animals Are Just Hearts Set Free*
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What's the best way to swim? If "best" is the same as "tried and recommended by the majority of fish," then the answer is easy. Think of your basic sardine beating its tail back and forth propel itself forward, and you've got ...
Article - Danna Staaf - Jun 25 2010 - 4:16pm
- A Very Brief Discussion of Squid Penises
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The Falkland Islands' own Sasha Arkhipkin (whom I missed meeting on his last trip to California--sorrow!) has discovered that males of a particular deep-sea squid species have penises as long as their bodies. And they can stretch even longer. It' ...
Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Jul 11 2010 - 11:27pm
- Benguela-Goby: The Fish That Lives In Poison
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Benguela-goby, or bearded goby, is a fish species that has adapted to a hostile environment poisonous to most other organisms. This little goby-fish (Sufflogobius bibarbatus) reaches a maximum length of 13 cm and is only found in the Benguela ecosystem, ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2010 - 8:14pm
- Out Of Tragedy- Illumination
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On my way home last night, motoring the red Jeep down Ohio Rt 53, out in the middle of nowhere, only a bunch of farm fields, oncoming traffic and darkness, I saw a bright flash of light in my left eye. I realized, with a familiar guilty pleasure that a de ...
Article - Mark Berman - Jul 22 2010 - 2:36pm
- Amateur Photographer Masters the Snapshot of a Firefly
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from Terry Priest Firefly Photography Fireflies have been flashing into a broader public awareness lately, well beyond those simple childhood summer evening memories of running through the yard capturing these little creatures into temporary glass prisons ...
Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Jul 22 2010 - 7:23pm
- Virtual Birding from South Texas
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Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Jul 26 2010 - 9:23pm
- Disney World Supports Citizen Science Programs
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Having just recently returned from our first ...
Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Jul 29 2010 - 12:21am
- Map Your Backyard Habitat with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology--a premier citizen science research and support organization--is launching an exciting new program in the Fall of 2010. The Lab focuses most of its energy on aggregating and analyzing the efforts of thousands of volunteer ci ...
Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Jul 30 2010 - 12:07am
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