Gorilla Gets MRI and More for Friday, March 27, 2009

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Does Prebiotic Material Exist In Space?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326152507.htm

Why Animals Migrate: New Understandings

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326141543.htm

Dogs can find your cash or hunt whales

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/03/27/mf.dog.sniffing/index.html

Dogs (not chimps) most like humans

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29895614/

Canis lupus familiaris

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

Pan

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

Gorilla Gets MRI At Bronx Zoo

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326134018.htm

Gorilla gorilla gorilla

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

Bobby Murcer Mobile MRI Unit

http://waswatching.com/2008/11/16/the-bobby-murcer-mobile-mri-unit/

Bobby Ray Murcer

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

How Lizards Can Shed Their Tail When Attacked

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325170604.htm

Extermination day nears for toxic toads

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29895745/

Bufo marinus

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

Crabs 'sense and remember pain'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7966807.stm

Paguroidea

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

Blind Cavefish Inspire Next-generation Sensors (When we checked this article, we found that the blind cave fish referenced was Astyanax fasciatus – which FishBase.org reports as the “Banded Astyanax” Which does not appear to be a blind fish at all. We did further checking and found listed in FishBase the Australian Blind Cave Fish known as Astyanax jordani. See below. (We did email Science Daily).

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101745.htm

Astyanax fasciatus

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=8080&genusname=Astyanax&speciesname=fasciatus

Astyanax jordani

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=6181

Millions of fish shoal in seconds

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7966335.stm

Clupea

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

Why Certain Fishes Went Extinct 65 Million Years Ago

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326134020.htm

A flower on the moon?

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/26/1867485.aspx

New Technique Used To Profile Anthrax Genome

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090320102134.htm

RNA-Seq

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA-Seq

Loch Ness Monster Obsession Lives On

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AroundTheWorld/story?id=7185124&page=1

China: Hand, foot and mouth virus kills 18 kids

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090327/ap_on_re_as/as_china_child_virus;_ylt=Aki9kAADA.brv2swjDOaJFms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkcnZ2aDJrBHBvcwMxMzkEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA2NoaW5haGFuZGZvbw--

HFMD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand,_foot_and_mouth_disease

When It Comes To Intelligence, Size Matters

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132531.htm

Steaming hot tea linked to cancer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7965380.stm

Steaming-hot tea linked to throat cancer

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29912977/

Vets Get Disease Scare Over Colonoscopies

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/health/main4896815.shtml

Colonoscopy

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

Experimental Ebola Vaccine Used On Human

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/health/main4897190.shtml

Inadequate Vitamin D Levels Linked To High Use Of Narcotic Medication By Patients In Chronic Pain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090320112114.htm

Drug Used To Treat Skin Conditions Is A Marine Pollutant

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101612.htm

Clotrimazole

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

Gorging on omega-3 fats lets birds get fit without exercise: study

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/27/tech-090327-omega-3-quail.html

Omega-3 fatty acid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3s

New theory blames cosmic rays for helping CFCs deplete ozone

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/23/tech-090323-ozone-hole-cosmic-rays.html

Feds fund 8 carbon capture projects in Western Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/26/cgy-carbon-capture-projects-funding.html

Nanoparticles In Cosmetics, Personal Care Products May Have Adverse Environmental Effects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326162747.htm

Awareness Of Darwin Not Evolving

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090327072909.htm

Charles Darwin

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

Evolution’s backers hail Texas vote

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29902944/

Scientists find safer way to make human stem cells

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52p5wr-us-stemcells-safety/

Fish with Human Facesand the Pink Tursiops and More for Thursday, March 5, 2009

Lemurs: Secret Social Life Surprisingly Complex

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090304091335.htm

Propithecus diadema

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

Oldest known wild jaguar in U.S. euthanized

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29529179/

Panthera onca

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

Pink dolphin appears in US lake

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4927224/Pink-dolphin-appears-in-US-lake.html

Tursiops truncatus

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

Rare Java rhino captured on film

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7926184.stm

Rhinoceros sondaicus

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

Fossil of 10 million-year-old bird found in Peru

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29433376/


Life-saving Trend Discovered Among Seagulls

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090220110914.htm

Tropical Lizards Can't Take The Heat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303193954.htm

Genetic Study Finds Treasure Trove Of New Lizards

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303210053.htm

Frog's Immune System Is Key In Fight Against Killer Virus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090227122252.htm

Reverse 'Bad' Fish Evolution: Let Big Ones Go

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303193950.htm

Futuristic Seafood: Raising Delicious Cobia And Pompano Fish -- Inland

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090220182248.htm

First Fossil Brain: Shark Relative That Lived 300 Million Years Ago Yields Very Rare Specimen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302183128.htm

Fish with human faces spotted in South Korea

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4929620/Fish-with-human-faces-spotted-in-South-Korea.html

Human Face Fish

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

Controversy Over World’s Oldest Traces Of Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090216131450.htm

Highest Microbial Systems Fueled By Volcanoes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303112437.htm