Whale songs are heard for the first time around New York City waters September 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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For the first time in waters surrounding New York City, the beckoning calls of endangered fin, humpback and North Atlantic right whales have been recorded, according to experts from the Bioacoustics Research Program at the ... | |
 Insight into the evolution of parasitism September 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, together with American colleagues, have decoded the genome of the Pristionchus pacificus nematode, thereby gaining insight into the evolution ... | |
America's smallest dinosaur uncovered September 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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An unusual breed of dinosaur that was the size of a chicken, ran on two legs and scoured the ancient forest floor for termites is the smallest dinosaur species found in North America, according to a University of Calgary ... | |
 Archaeological Dig in Greece Returns Important Finds September 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New and interesting information is coming out of an archaeological dig at Mt. Lykaion in Greece – an interdisciplinary project University of Arizona students and faculty have worked on since ... | |
 Meat-eating dinosaur from Argentina had bird-like breathing system September 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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The remains of a 30-foot-long predatory dinosaur discovered along the banks of Argentina's Rio Colorado is helping to unravel how birds evolved their unusual breathing system. | |
 Dinosaurs survived 2 mass extinctions and 50 million years before taking over the world and dominating ecosystems September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Reporting in Biology Letters, Steve Brusatte, Professor Michael Benton, and colleagues at the University of Bristol show that dinosaurs did not proliferate immediately after they originated, but that ... | |
 Coral-killing starfish turns out to be four species, not one October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The crown-of-thorns starfish, a notorious threat to coral in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, comprises four species, not one, biologists reported on Tuesday. | |
Study reveals specific gene in adolescent men with delinquent peers October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Birds of a feather flock together, according to the old adage, and adolescent males who possess a certain type of variation in a specific gene are more likely to flock to delinquent peers, according to a landmark study led ... | |
Study: Mortgage Losses On Owner-Occupied Homes Lower Than Assumed October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Homeowners who are struggling with mortgages for their own residences are a relatively small part of the overall mortgage crisis, according to results of a new nationwide study of consumer balance sheets. | |
 Tracking Down the Cause of Mad Cow Disease October 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The cause of diseases such as BSE in cattle and Creutzfeld–Jakob disease in humans is a prion protein. This protein attaches to cell membranes by way of an anchor made of sugar and lipid components ... | |
 The Color of Evolution: How One Fish Became Two Fish October 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since Darwin discovered that species can evolve, scientists have wondered how new species form. Answering this question is the key to understanding the diversity of all of life. A group ... | |
Protection for stressed-out bacteria identified October 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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An international team of researchers is a step closer to understanding the spread of deadly diseases such as listeriosis, after observing for the first time how bacteria respond to stress. | |
 New ant species discovered in the Amazon likely represents oldest living lineage of ants September 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 86 vote(s)
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A new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest by University of Texas at Austin evolutionary biologist Christian Rabeling is likely a descendant of the very first ants ... | |
 Busy and valuable: Bees are worth $220bln a year September 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Bees and other pollinating insects are worth 153 billion euros (220 billion dollars) a year, thanks to their help in growing fruit, vegetables, oil crops, coffee, cocao and spices, a French study has found. ... | |
Primordial fish had rudimentary fingers September 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Tetrapods, the first four-legged land animals, are regarded as the first organisms that had fingers and toes. Now researchers at Uppsala University can show that this is wrong. Using medical x-rays, they found rudiments ... | |
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