Ecology & Zoology
- Antifreeze Proteins: Why Antarctic Fish Don't Freeze Or Melt
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Five families of notothenioid fish inhabit the Southern Ocean, the frigid sea that encircles Antarctica, manufacture their own "antifreeze" proteins to survive. Their ability to live in the icy seawater is so extraordinary that they make up more ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2014 - 3:14pm
- Sheep HapMap Project Can Tell Us About Livestock Climate Adaptation
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Man has domesticated animals for almost long as man has domesticated crops. In both cases, humans have engaged in genetic modification, selecting the best traits possible. Because of that legacy, livestock such as sheep offer an intriguing way to examine ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2014 - 5:56pm
- The Grim Story Of The Snowy Mountains' Cannibal Horses
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A glimpse of wild brumbies in the Snowy Mountains. Credit: Michael Tristram/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND By Don Driscoll, Australian National University and Sam Banks, Australian National University ...
Article - The Conversation - Sep 24 2014 - 1:00am
- Indonesia Cassava Might Be Saved By Parasitic Wasp
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Researchers in Indonesia are releasing the parasitic wasp Anagyrus lopezi in an attempt to save cassava crops from destructive mealybugs. Credit: CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture.Rights information: http://bit.ly/otwhKG By: Ker Than, Ins ...
Article - Inside Science - Sep 26 2014 - 7:30am
- Fish Harvests: Natural Processes Cause Dramatic Drops In Populations- So Do Humans
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Ryan Rykaczewski, an oceanographer and assistant professor at the University of South Carolina, is part of a team that are looking deep into the ocean's past, and they have shown that natural processes can cause dramatic year-to-year drops in fish po ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2014 - 1:43pm
- Andinobates Geminisae: New Poison Dart Frog Species Discovered In Panama
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A bright orange poison dart frog with a unique call was discovered in Donoso, Panama, and described by researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí in Panama, and the Universidad de los Andes in Col ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2014 - 10:31am
- Wind Turbine Or Tree? Bats Can't Tell
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Certain bats may be approaching wind turbines after mistaking them for trees, according to a study, and that could be leading to disaster. Propped up by government mandates and subsidies, both solar and wind energy have become more common and thus both hav ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2014 - 6:00pm
- 5 Ways To Stop The World’s Wildlife From Vanishing
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Going, going, gone: wildlife like the loris are disappearing. Credit: N. A. Naseer, CC BY-NC-ND By Paul Jepson, University of Oxford ...
Article - The Conversation - Oct 2 2014 - 8:00am
- Sharks Have Personalities
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Some sharks are more 'gregarious' than others and have strong social connections while others are solitary and prefer to remain inconspicuous. That's not an exception, according to a new study, these notorious predators have personality tra ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2014 - 7:30am
- The Voices Of Fish Larvae Recorded
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Researchers recently used audio and video recording tools to record larval orientation behavior in the pelagic environment. In their field experiment, the scientists put the recording devices i a drifting in situ chamber called DISC near Fowey Rocks lig ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2014 - 9:18am
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