For Thursday, August 7, 2008

Jabiru image licensed under Creative Commons by kevin.j

119 illegal African clawed frogs seized in Nevada

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080806/ap_on_sc/frogs_seized;_ylt=AlmlzKuZi3y7L3lCUhX060as0NUE

Xenopus laevis

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

South American stork spotted in Louisiana

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_on_sc/stork_sighting;_ylt=AigARza3vCe9XC.OcWyJBDus0NUE

Jabiru mycteria

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

Researchers compile West Nile gene "dictionary"


'Can anyone hear that picture?'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7545888.stm

Synesthesia

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

Crystal clue in army brain injury

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7545568.stm


Acid Sea Hampers Reproduction Of Marine Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728111400.htm

Red Flour Beetle's 'Selfish' Gene Sequenced

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080807081350.htm

Tribolium castaneum

http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/urban/beetles/red_flour_beetle.htm

Nine To Twenty Individual Fire Ant Queens Started U.S. Fire Ant Population

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080807080832.htm

Solenopsis

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

Is There Life On Jupiter's Moon Europa? Finding Signs Of Current Geological Activity On A Frozen World

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080806210116.htm