For Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Photo licensed under Creative Commons by Wllly Volk

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_re_au_an/new_zealand_colossal_squid;_ylt=Ao4MuYcaFLFna9_Q_.Sv2cSs0NUE

New Zealand scientists thaw 1,000-pound squid corpse - Yahoo! News

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Squid

Colossal Squid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_re_us/polar_bears;_ylt=Ap3l1VgzlRK9k0kr9uABUqes0NUE

Judge orders federal government to decide polar bear listing

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080429/sc_nm/brazil_lizard_dc;_ylt=AtZlYtgE1GNSvSeZVzhAozkPLBIF

Legless lizard found in Brazil may be new species - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_re_us/shark_attack;_ylt=AsT.T4QCI808WQ8kxsBRKYAPLBIF

Shark expert: Autopsy confirms great white killed triathlete - Yahoo! News

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_shark

Carcharodon carcharias

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080428/sc_livescience/bughassexwithorchids;_ylt=AhTBwQm0fIWlrFBo8jHNhv4PLBIF

Bug Has Sex with Orchids - Yahoo! News


http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080428-orchid-climax.html

Bug Has Sex with Orchids LiveScience




http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7373998.stm

BBC NEWS Europe Paris rat-catchers tackle rodents

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat

Rattus

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7371686.stm

BBC NEWS Technology Free game hopes to save gorillas


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7370737.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Device 'spins silk like spiders'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_silk

Spider silk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia








http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080424140400.htm

When Did Dinosaurs Go Extinct? Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Dating Refined

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon-argon_dating

Argon-argon dating - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080428104518.htm

Endangered Right Whales Protected With New Warning Buoys In Shipping Lanes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_whale

Eubalaena

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080428140002.htm

Will Corals Survive The Stormy Future?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080429130927.htm

Bison Can Thrive Again, Study Says

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080429075327.htm

Scientists Make Chemical Cousin Of DNA For Use As New Nanotechnology Building Block

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNA_%28nucleic_acid%29

Glycerol nucleic acid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080428200309.htm

Ancient Ecosystems Organized Much Like Our Own

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian

Cambrian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24360996/

Dolphins collide mid-air, one dies - Science- msnbc.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tursiops_truncatus

Tursiops truncatus

For Saturday, April 26, 2008

Photo licensed under Creative Commons by wallyg

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080425/ap_on_sc/climate_arctic_animals

Narwhals more at risk to Arctic warming than polar bears - Yahoo! News

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narwhal

Monodon monoceras


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7368484.stm

BBC NEWS Americas Polar bears 'at risk' in Canada

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080423154558.htm

Arctic Marine Mammals On Thin Ice

For Friday, April 25, 2008

Photo licensed under Creative Commons by Stacy Lynn Baum

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7367227.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Balding penguin given wetsuit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Penguin

African Penguin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7363411.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature UK butterflies 'need good summer'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidoptera

Butterfly


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7364769.stm

BBC NEWS UK Scotland Highlands and Islands Grey squirrel 'may have hitched'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciuridae

Sciuridae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080424140418.htm

Molecular Analysis Confirms Tyrannosaurus Rex's Evolutionary Link To Birds

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus_Rex

Tyrannosaurus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080425/od_nm/fish_odd_dc;_ylt=AoahXUQwqKIJOtDGhIdnIq.s0NUE

Anglers let big cash bonanza get away - Yahoo! News

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=12045

Bahaba taipingensis, Chinese bahaba: fisheries

For Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Bumblebee photo licensed under Creative Commons by Thomas Quine

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7361539.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Species loss 'bad for our health'









http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7360770.stm

BBC NEWS UK Scotland Edinburgh, East and Fife No sex for all-girl fish species

http://www.eol.org/taxa/17059092

AMAZON MOLLY - Encyclopedia of Life

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_molly

Amazon molly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7360832.stm

BBC NEWS UK Scotland Highlands and Islands Wild bee decline 'catastrophic'

http://www.bumblebeeconservationtrust.co.uk/

The Bumblebee Conservation Trust

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7359991.stm

BBC NEWS UK UK Politics Brown's biofuels caution welcomed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuel

Biofuel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080417130549.htm

Birds Announce Their Sentry Duty To Help Comrades Get A Good Meal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turdoides_bicolor

Turdoides bicolor

Photo licensed under Creative Commons by MBoy68

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080418105531.htm

Building A Global Reference Library Of DNA Barcodes Of Marine Life

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_barcode

DNA barcoding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.fishbol.org/

FISHBOL.org: Fish Barcode of Life Initiative

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080422115008.htm

Ugandan Monkeys Harbor Evidence Of Infection With Unknown Poxvirus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_colobus_monkey

Red colobus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080422103853.htm

Herbicide-tolerant Crops Can Improve Water Quality

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080422203315.htm

Freshwater Herring Had Salty Origin

http://www.fishbase.org/search.php

Fish: Search FishBase

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080422171449.htm

Shell-breaking Crabs Lived 20 Million Years Earlier Than Thought

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/04/23/peta.chicken/index.html

Scientists offered $1 million to grow laboratory chicken - CNN.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants

The Space Merchants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - Earth Day

Doormouse photo licensed under Creative Commons by yeimaya

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day

Earth Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Earth-Day/ss/events/sc/042108earthday

Earth Day - Yahoo! News Photos


Please note: some of the hyperlinks in italics send you to pages about species and other information. Many of these links are wikilinks. We would use EOL links, but they have not finished authenticating information on some of these species.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7354547.stm

BBC NEWS UK Magazine A dog that's not for life






BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific S Korea trains sniffer-dog clones










Mice Can Sense Oxygen Through Their Skin



Mus Maximus and Mus Minimus



Want To Reduce Your Food-related Carbon Footprint? What You Eat Is More Important Than Where It Came From

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint

Carbon footprint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Many Captive Tigers Are Of Purebred Ancestry; Finding Raises Their Conservation Value





http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080419020546.htm

World's Rarest Gorilla Finds Sanctuary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_River_Gorilla

Gorilla gorilla diehli







http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24254754/

Woman finds 8-foot alligator in kitchen - Animal weirdness- msnbc.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator

Alligator mississippiensis







http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24245803/

Hawking: Alien but primitive life likely - Space- msnbc.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking

Stephen Hawking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/21/conservatory.lynx.ap/index.html

New Mexico fights to protect the lynx - CNN.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx

Lynx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For Monday, April 21, 2008

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080420122601.htm

Could There Be Life On Saturn's Moon Enceladus?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus_%28moon%29

Enceladus (moon)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080416165732.htm

New Model Predicts Where Corals Can Thrive

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080416151943.htm

Road Kill Losses Add Up, Taxing Amphibians And Other Animals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_kill

Roadkill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080416211436.htm

Making Environmentally Friendly Plastics


http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2008/04/21/ca.grunion.run.cnn

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunion

Grunion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Grunion photo licensed under Creative Commons by kalavinka

Miscellaneous Entries for Sunday, April 20, 2008

Photo licensed under Creative Commons by coda

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080420/ap_on_sc/sea_turtles_nesting;_ylt=AoFVVt_r3dDkPSyGUkCZ6Rqs0NUE

Loggerhead turtle nests lag, green and leatherbacks are up

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080420/ap_on_re_us/roadkill_warriors;_ylt=An2aMLF_y2q0BNtLJz77AF6s0NUE

Buzzards or vultures by either name seen as ugly and pesty

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080419/ap_on_sc/predator_and_prey;_ylt=AuVIZ9jnHQ1B8n7FgPPsZ5Ws0NUE

Watching wolves, moose — and heat — on Michigan island - Yahoo! News

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_Royale

Isle Royale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia






http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7357121.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Catching corals' spectacular moment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_reef

Coral reef - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7353407.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Captive tigers 'may save species'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080418133406.htm

Mighty Microbes: Bacteria Filaments Can Bundle Together And Move Objects 100,000 Times Bacterium's Body Weight

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080417152027.htm

New Vaccine May Give Long-term Defense Against Deadly Bird Flu And Its Variant Forms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080416140912.htm

Bloodless Worm Sheds Light On Human Blood, Iron Deficiency

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._elegans

Caenorhabditis elegans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia





http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080416091012.htm

Deep-sea Sharks Wired For Sound

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080416140928.htm

Slowly-developing Primates Definitely Not Dim-witted

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate

Primate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24226179/

Crocodile kills man in wildlife sanctuary - World environment- msnbc.com

Miscellaneous Entries for April 17-18, 2008

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1208334782154401.xml&coll=2

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo researchers find rare Swinhoe's turtle living in wild in Vietnam

http://www.eol.org/taxa/16721814

SWINHOE'S SOFT-SHELLED TURTLE - Encyclopedia of Life

http://flickr.com/search/?q=swinhoe%27s+turtle

Link to Photo of Swinhoe's turtle

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080417/ap_on_sc/malaysia_pygmy_elephants;_ylt=AtKoqlAK1UTm4HsiLWo5BZqs0NUE

Study: Elephants thought extinct may have survived - Yahoo! News

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_elephant

Loxodonta pumilio

Photo licensed under Creative Commons by http://flickr.com/photos/dhedwards/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7350610.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Birds 'can behave like soldiers'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7350403.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Flies get 'mind-control sex swap'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080416091015.htm

Early Exposure To Common Weed Killer Impairs Amphibian Development

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine

Atrazine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080417112433.htm

Lizards Undergo Rapid Evolution After Introduction To A New Home

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podarcis_sicula

Podarcus sicula

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080416140922.htm

Mixing Farm Animal Waste Just Right To Make Energy