25 Amazing Ancient Beasts!
• http://www.livescience.com/There seems to be no end to the odd creatures that scientists find by digging up fossils. Here we celebrate some of the coolest extinct fish, mammals, dinosaurs, birds and other beasts.
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Biology, Botany and Zoology
Biggest Spider Fossil Ever Found
• http://www.wired.com/Scientists have unearthed the largest spider fossil ever found.The spider, a new species called Nephila jurassica, stretches about two inches from end to end.
Most Dangerous Bacteria
• Wonders-World.comBacteria are ubiquitous, present in the soil, air and water around you. Some bacteria can be beneficial, while other bacteria causes illness and even death. Pathogenic bacteria, those organisms that cause disease, relentlessly bombard your body daily
Four Letters Re: Coffee in a Post-Collapse Society
• http://www.survivalblog.com/In the recent article Coffee in a Post-Collapse Society, the author is talking about Arabica coffee being only cultivated near the equator. Robusto green coffee can be grown in the southern states like Florida and south Texas.
Invasion of the Body Snatching Algae
• LiveSciencePlants living inside an animal? Yep, that's what scientists found when peering inside a spotted salamander: live green algae. While the two species may seem like strange bedfellows, their intimate, one-of-a-kind relationship is helpful for both.
American Couple married for 135 years!
Ducati JeanneHappy Anniversary to Buck and Jeanne, Arizona street activists
Angry Wasps Capture Intruding Ants, Fly Away, Airdrop Them
• LiveScienceWhat's a wasp to do when ants are ruining its picnic? Pick the little pests up and airdrop them out of the way, according to a new study. That's the strategy of the common yellow jacket wasp when competing with ants for food,
Six Ways Bio-Inspired Design is Reshaping the Future
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comFrom harvesting energy to building networks, nature has been solving problems for billions of years longer than humans have
Plastic Beads Fight Cancer By Cutting Blood Flow
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comPumping a body full of celldestroying chemicals sounds like a bad idea, but that’s what chemotherapy entails. The side effects chemo for liver cancer, the third deadliest cancer in men, usually necessitate a four-day hospital stay with each treatment
To Protect Patented Genes, DARPA Wants a Security System that Records Genomic Changes
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comDARPA wants a genetic security system that’s built into the genome that can monitor for and report on changes to an organism’s genetic makeup.
Carnivorous Plant Snaps Shut With 600 Gs
• LiveScienceA carnivorous plant that lives in bogs worldwide traps its prey in less than a millisecond, more than 100 times faster than a Venus flytrap can manage. Utricularia, a genus of rootless carnivorous plants, is better known by its common name, bladderwo
Plant Sentinels Sniff Out Danger, Turn White at the First Sign of Trouble
• pcworld.comIn the future, even the trees will be keeping tabs on us.....
Giant crayfish found in Tennessee is new species
• ReutersA new species of giant crayfish literally crawled out from under a rock in Tennessee, proving that large new species of animals can be found in highly populated and well-explored places, researchers said on Wednesday. The new crayfish should not h
Buried alive 34,000 years ago and still alive
• LiveScienceIt's a tale that has all the trappings of a cult 1960s sci-fi movie: Scientists bring back ancient salt crystals, dug up from deep below Death Valley for climate research. The sparkling crystals are carefully packed away until, years later, a young,
New discovery makes scar prevention easier
• Terrence AymSoon scars may be a thing of the past. Scars have been the bane of humans throughout history. Scar tissue can be an embarrassment, disfiguring, even life-threatening. Now an amazingly simple solution seems to have been discovered. The answer lies wit
Japan bio-scientists produce 'singing mouse'
• AFPJapanese scientists said Tuesday they had produced a mouse that tweets like a bird in a genetically engineered "evolution" which they hope will shed light on the origins of human language. A team of researchers at the University of Osaka created t
Obama approves creation of man-made life
• Terrence Aym"Man-made life." -- To some it conjures up scenes from "Blade Runner"—junk strewn laboratories with mad Japanese scientists hunched in the cellars of Los Angeles modifying patented cellular life complete with bar code identifiers for a price. Oth
Some Frogs Pee Out Junk From Their Bodies
• LiveScienceImagine some buckshot from a shotgun got stuck in you or you had a radio transmitter stuck in you. If you were a frog, your body apparently have the remarkable ability to pee out foreign objects, with their bladders engulfing the intrusions to get ri
How Venus Flytraps Avoid Snapping Up Lousy Meals
• LiveScienceFlytrap leaves close so quickly - in under a second - because they snap from convex to concave the same way that a contact lens can flip inside out. Venus flytrap's chemical signals work much like those in the human brain. Like neurotransmitters, the
The hunt for the man-eating plant
• Terrence AymFor more than a century, serious investigators have searched for the fabled man-eating plants. Those horrors of the darkest jungles that supposedly hide in the most forbidding corners of the world's most inaccessible green hells. The origin of the b
Baby Born From 20-Year-Old Frozen Embryo
• Mara Hvistendahl via PopSci.comA New York woman has set a new record
Oldest Animal Life on Earth Found?
• Discovery NewsAnimals have been on Earth for at least 650 million years, suggest recently found primitive sponge fossils from South Australia. This discovery pushes back the fossil record for animals by about 70 million years, according to a new study
Researchers discover how key enzyme repairs sun-damaged DNA
• PhysOrgResearchers have long known that humans lack a key enzyme -- one possessed by most of the animal kingdom and even plants -- that reverses severe sun damage. For the first time, researchers have witnessed how this enzyme works at the atomic level
Zedonk Hybrid Born At Ga. Wildlife Preserve
• Gainesville TimesA zedonk, an unusual cross between a donkey and a zebra, is attracting attention at a Wildlife Preserve after being born there a week ago. The animal has a zebra father and donkey mother, has black stripes prominently displayed on her legs and face.
Female mice 'can be turned lesbian by deleting gene'
• Daily TelegraphResearchers found that disabling the FucM gene – which influences the levels of oestrogen to which the brain is exposed – caused the mice to behave as if they were male as they grew up.
Fish out of water: Gene clue to evolutionary step
• AFPFossil evidence suggests that around 365 million years ago, fish, or fish-like creatures, emerged from shallow seas, moving onto land with the help of primitive, eight-fingered limbs, which later simplified to five digits under evolutionary pressure.
Goodbye Organic Beef and Dairy: US Supreme Court OKs Franken-Alfalfa
• news.yahoo.com/s/afpThe Supreme Court lifted Monday a four-year ban on the sale in the United States of genetically modified alfalfa, which farmers fear contaminates others crops.
Scientists use Calvin Klein cologne to successfully lure pussy
• ReutersBiologists tracking jaguars in the Guatemalan jungle might smell nice but it's all in the name of science, with researchers finding the Calvin Klein cologne Obession for Men attracts big cats.
This Is Unbelievable! - James Fox flies over BP Oil disaster with Marine Biologist, Dr. Carl Safina
• godlikeproductions.comvideo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBPIPWqOziw
Sheila Patek clocks the fastest animals
• Biologist Sheila Patek - TED TalksBiologist Sheila Patek talks about her work measuring the feeding strike of the mantis shrimp, one of the fastest movements in the animal world, using video cameras recording at 20,000 frames per second.
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