Ecology & Zoology
- Ancient Safety Valve Linking Pollen To Bacteria Discovered
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Like seeds, pollen loses most of its water during maturation, entering a state of suspended animation. This allows it to survive its journey from male to female organs of a flower, where it is rehydrated by sugary fluids secreted by the female organ, and ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2015 - 4:57pm
- Elephants Blamed For Tree Losses In African Nature Reserve
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Nature reserves and national parks play a crucial role in sheltering wildlife, such as African elephants, from hunting and habitat destruction, but they have no problem at all exhausting the wildlife around them. Researchers have examined the effect eleph ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2015 - 4:19pm
- Why Some Insects Kill Their Mothers
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One day a few years ago, while working on wasps in a rainforest in Costa Rica, entomologist Kevin J. Loope, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Riverside, began reading about the enigmatic matricidal behavior of some social insects. ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2015 - 7:00am
- Mufasa Or Scar? Leadership Clues From The Animal Kingdom
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As the American media continues to speculate, analyze and in some cases choose the Republican and Democratic nominations for U.S. President, researchers in the journal Trends in Ecology&Evolution review the nature of leadership- at least in a set of s ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2015 - 6:25pm
- We Can Start A Biblical Plague With Three Locusts
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From the Biblical plagues of Egypt to a major infestation in Madacasgar two years ago, locust swarms have caused chaos throughout history. Just one swarm can cover 20% of the land surface of the Earth, affecting the livelihood of 10% of the world’s popula ...
Article - The Conversation - Nov 9 2015 - 7:30am
- Marine Fungi Inhabit Previously Undescribed Branches Of The Tree Of Life
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Researchers have discovered several new species of marine fungi inhabiting previously undescribed branches of the tree of life. Though there is always talk about what little we do know going extinct, little is known about species on land, now or in the pa ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2015 - 7:00am
- Why Mice Have Longer Sperm Than Elephants
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In the animal world, if several males mate with the same female, their sperm compete to fertilize her limited supply of eggs. And longer sperm seem to have a competitive advantage, but even when it comes to sperm the size of the animals matter. The larger ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2015 - 7:50pm
- FDA Approves AquAdvantage Salmon After Extensive Review
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The United States Food and Drug Administration has approved the AquAdvantage salmon, a genetically modified Atlantic salmon that expresses a gene from a Chinook salmon to grow faster, after reviewing it since 1996. ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2015 - 11:27am
- Armor With Eyes
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The armored shells of some marine mollusks have evolved to satisfy two conflicting design requirements, protection and sight, a new study shows. ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2015 - 10:41am
- Resurrection Grass: The Secret Of Coming Back From The Dead Could Help Food Worldwide
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A native Australian grass that plays dead during droughts and culls its own cells to survive could provide genetic keys to help food crops survive worldwide. Like other so-called 'resurrection plants', Tripogon loliiformis has the ability to wit ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2015 - 8:50am
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