Much of the world’s honey now contains bee-harming pesticides
Global survey finds neonicotinoids in three-fourths of samples NOT SO SWEET A global survey of honey found neonicotinoid pesticide...Read More
Showing posts with label Life & Evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life & Evolution. Show all posts
‘Nutcracker Man’ Gave Us Genital Herpes, Study Says
New research from the University of Cambridge and Oxford Brookes University predicts which species acted as an intermediary between the ...Read More
Fifteen New Species of ‘Smiley-Faced’ Spiders Discovered
A team of spider experts and students from the University of Vermont has discovered and described 15 new species of the spider genus Spint...Read More
Bite force research reveals dinosaur-eating frog
Scientists say that a large, now extinct, frog called Beelzebufo that lived about 68 million years ago in Madagascar would have been capab...Read More
Penguins Caught on Camera Eating Jellyfish and Other Gelata
Dr. Jean-Baptiste Thiebot, a marine biologist at the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues have documente...Read More
Uromys vika: New Species of Tree-Dwelling Giant Rat Found in Solomon Islands
A new rodent species with an unusual lifestyle has been discovered on Vangunu — an island, part of the New Georgia Islands in the Solomo...Read More
Researchers Sequence Guinea Yam Genome
An international team of scientists from the United Kingdom, Japan, and Germany has produced the first high-quality genomic sequence for...Read More
One of the world’s most popular trees arose near the Arctic Circle (White Oak's Ancestor)
This white oak's ancestor came from the Far North. It’s the national tree of the United States, Germany, and a dozen other coun...Read More
Giant wombatlike creatures migrated across Australia 300,000 years ago
About 300,000 years ago, herds of rhino-sized creatures migrated across the floodplains of east-central Australia, mimicking the treks...Read More
Songbird populations may indicate trouble in northwestern forests
Purple finches, indicators of healthy coniferous habitat, are declining in the Northwest, according to data from the Klamath Bird Obser...Read More
Microbes survived inside giant cave crystals for up to 50,000 years
Extremophiles hint at possible resilience of life beyond Earth IN DEEP Samples from fluid pockets in crystals inside Mexico's N...Read More
Old barn owls aren’t hard of hearing
Barn owls’ hearing may not deteriorate over time the same way human hearing does, a new study suggests. Barn owl ears age well. Unl...Read More
This newfound hermit crab finds shelter in corals, not shells
Symbiotic find is surprising as these corals already pal up with another critter: marine worms UNDERWATER MOBILE HOME A newly discove...Read More
Light pollution can foil plant-insect hookups, and not just at night
For cabbage thistles, daytime pollinators didn’t make up for missed after-hours seed-making WHITE NIGHTS Artificial light at night u...Read More
‘Big Chicken’ chronicles the public health dangers of using antibiotics in farming
Efforts to raise bigger birds unwittingly spawned drug resistance in bacteria COOPED UP Thanks in large part to antibiotics, chicke...Read More
Why bats crash into windows
FLIGHT PATH DANGER Vertical, smooth surfaces could create acoustic traps for mouse-eared bats ( Myotis myotis ) like this one. Wall...Read More
How horses lost their toes - Ancient equines had up to four toes, which they shed as their body size grew
TOES TO SPARE The ancestral horse Hyracotherium (illustrated) roamed North America about 55 million years ago. It had four toes on it...Read More
Bones reveal what it was like to grow up dodo
Cutting into precious bone specimens gives clues to the extinct birds’ life and times SUMMER OF DANGER Mother and chick dodos, illus...Read More
Rising temperatures threaten heat-tolerant aardvarks - A counterintuitive climate tale of knock-on effects due to hotter, dryer conditions
LATE-NIGHT SNACK Night is normal aardvark time to search for dinner. When nocturnal aardvarks start sunbathing, something’s wr...Read More
Dinosaurs may not have seen the Grand Canyon after all
New geologic comparisons place the Grand Canyon’s inception more recently than 12 million years ago. Riceratops and Tyrannosaurus...Read More
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