For Friday, October 10, 2008

Gasterosteus aculeatus (?) photo licensed under Creative Commons by frenquency

Nature loss 'dwarfs bank crisis'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7662565.stm

Microscope shows how embryos grow

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27108010/

Western group petitions for species protection

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081010/ap_on_sc/western_ark;_ylt=AgXMTLvcBX4qKt1mw8Yov6is0NUE

Pledge to protect Sumatran forest

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7662186.stm

Oil spill penguins released

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7663159.stm

Water Snails Offer New Propulsion Possibilities

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081009144333.htm

Warming Threats To Tropical Rainforest Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081009143700.htm

Circadian Clock May Be Critical For Learning

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008151318.htm

Circadian rhthym

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

How Fatty Foods Curb Hunger

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081007123647.htm

Diversity Of Plant-eating Fishes May Be Key To Recovery Of Coral Reefs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008113434.htm

Journey Toward The Center Of The Earth: One-of-a-kind Microorganism Lives All Alone

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081009143708.htm

Desulforudis audaxviator

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

Wielding Microbe Against Microbe, Beetle Defends Its Food Source

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081002171921.htm

Species Extinction By Asteroid A Rarity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081007102904.htm

Fitness In A Changing World: Genetics And Adaptations Of Alaskan Stickleback Fish

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081010100457.htm

Gasterosteus aculeatus

http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=2420&genusname=Gasterosteus&speciesname=aculeatus+aculeatus

Scientists: Yes, shark did have ‘virgin birth’

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27107721/

Carcharhinus brevipinna

http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=865&genusname=Carcharhinus&speciesname=brevipinna

Mutant fish develops a taste for human flesh in India

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3163501/Mutant-fish-develops-a-taste-for-human-flesh-in-India.html

Bagarius yarrelli

http://fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=23314

Hawking: If we survive the next 200 years, we should be OK

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/09/hawking/index.html

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

For Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Pigeon photo licensed under Creative Commons by Ritalin

http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news?slug=reu-wimbledonpigeons&prov=reuters&type=lgns

Wimbledon under fire for pigeon cull - Tennis - Yahoo! Sports

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

Columbidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080625/sc_afp/sciencepaleontologyfishevolution;_ylt=Aqi0iQDM4KgLs8B2E_jb_uGs0NUE

Fish out of water: The evolutionary crawl from sea to land - Yahoo! News

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

Ventastega - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7473470.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Fossil fills out water-land leap

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080625-tetrapods.html

Fishy Ancestors of Humans Surprisingly Diverse

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_sc/sci_marine_aliases;_ylt=AlaW2vufCSU3Vi9RtWCG4Rys0NUE

Scientists seek to sort sundry names for sealife - Yahoo! News

http://www.coml.org/

Census of Marine Life Portal


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080625/sc_nm/oceans_dc;_ylt=AmifvW2fdfHzTllpJXfsgHkPLBIF

Wrong names for fish seen complicating conservation - Yahoo! News



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7464437.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Sun-loving frogs aid fungus fight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7472310.stm

BBC NEWS UK England Close encounters over Mersey

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080623125003.htm

When Threatened, A Few African Frogs Can Morph Toes Into Claws

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080623113715.htm

Life On The Edge: To Disperse, Or Become Extinct?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080623105012.htm

Laser Fluorescence Could Find Life On Mars

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080619142102.htm

Scientists Fix Bugs In Our Understanding Of Evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0304-sea_urchins_reveal_medical_mysteries.htm

Sea Urchins Reveal Medical Mysteries -- Sea Urchins' Genetics Add To Knowledge Of Cancer, Alzheimer's And Infertility

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

Echinoidea

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080616115700.htm

Mini Subs To Probe Odd Coral-like Growths In British Columbia, Canada, Lake

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080625153342.htm

No Scent, No Sex For The Japanese Beetle

For Friday, June 6, 2008

Manatee photo licensed under Creative Commons by Old Shoe Woman

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080606/ap_on_sc/japan_iea_climate_change;_ylt=AlZji5CaN2PDm9xLeIcNt3Gs0NUE

Study: $45 trillion needed to combat warming - Yahoo! News


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7438205.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Bacteria could stop frog killer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/08/sci_nat_counting_nepal0s_rhinos/html/1.stm

BBC NEWS In pictures: Counting Nepal's rhinos, Casualties of war

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7438096.stm

BBC NEWS UK England Hares thriving after floods

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080602092537.htm

Brown Argus Butterfly Sees Positive Effects Of Climate Change

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

Aricia agestis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080606091943.htm

Unique Acoustic System Protects Manatees From Injuries And Death

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

Trichechus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080602075851.htm

Advances In C. Difficile Research

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080602075818.htm

Western U.S. Forests At Risk: Complex Dynamics Underlie Bark Beetle Eruptions

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

Scolytinae

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080606105448.htm

Ocean Life Under Threat From Climate Change

http://www.csiro.au/

Welcome to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24989743/

Minn. homes flattened by twister - Weather- msnbc.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24999650/

Meet miracle baby who was born twice - Health - MSNBC.com

For Wednesday, May 21, 2008

African grey parrot photo licensed under Creative Commons by Jinaa.com

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080521/ap_on_fe_st/odd_japan_parrot_returns

Lost parrot tells veterinarian his address - Yahoo! News

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

African Grey Parrot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080519/ap_on_he_me/mystery_diseases;_ylt=AmEGm4jjP1IBxZSJ3L7P_sSs0NUE

Those with rare diseases offered a chance for free treatment - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080521/ap_on_re_us/polar_bears;_ylt=AnSCq.VmhEW6Ctz8an6f662s0NUE

Critics: Polar bear plan must fight global warming - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080519/ap_on_sc/phoenix_mars;_ylt=AqAyTZ8UMs0zx_IDckBaE0Ks0NUE

Robot digger set to land Sunday at Martian pole - Yahoo! News

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html

NASA - Phoenix

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080520090559.htm

Clue To Mystery Crustacean In Parasite Form

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/6/21

BioMed Central Abstract 1741-7007-6-21 Induced metamorphosis in crustacean y-larvae: Towards a solution to a 100-year-old riddle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080520090551.htm

New Meaning For The Term 'Computer Bug': Genetically Altered Bacteria For Data Storage

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080520090534.htm

Diamond-Like Crystals Discovered In Brazilian Beetle Solve Issue For Future Optical Computers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080515145412.htm

Multiple New Species Of Fruit Flies With Overlapping Niches Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080521102300.htm

Corn Rootworm Population Studies: Faster, Cheaper, And Just As Good

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

Diabrotica virgifera virgifera

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080521101458.htm

New Peanut Variety Resistant To Nematodes, Virus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080521101229.htm

Ozone Might Help Make Bee Hives Cleaner And Safer



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24725557/

Rejected baby penguin gets two human mothers - Science- msnbc.com

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

Eudyptula minor

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24740710/

First dino tracks found in ancient Arabia - LiveScience- msnbc.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24668099/

'Second Life' is frontier for AI research - Innovation- msnbc.com

http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/research/rair/index.php

Rensselaer Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning Laboratory