Life Evolved in Lakes? and Earliest Tree Dweller? & More for Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Extinction Crisis Looms In Oceania

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090728102301.htm

Colder climate tied to longer animal lives

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32179202/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Naming Evolution's Winners And Losers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090729092536.htm

Evolution

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

Wildfires To Increase As Climate Warms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090728123047.htm

Earliest Animals Lived In Lake Environment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727191732.htm

Doushantuo Formation

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

Love Songs of Bowhead Whales: Whales Sings With 'More Than One Voice'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090729074523.htm

Balaena mysticetus

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

Balaena mysticetus (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/328577

Balaena mysticetus (IUCN Red List)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/2467/0

Orangutans swing for their dinner

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8171142.stm

Pongo

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

After Dinosaurs, Mammals Rise But Their Genomes Get Smaller

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727191919.htm

A fossil records the oldest known creature to live in the trees

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8173117.stm

First Vertebrate To Live In Trees

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090728201732.htm

Suminia getmanovi

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

More To Bats' Vision Than Meets The Eye

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727203745.htm

Bizarre Walking Bat Has Ancient Heritage

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090729095054.htm

Mystacina tuberculata

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

Mystacina tuberculata (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/1038741

Mystacina tuberculata (IUCN Red List – Vulnerable)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/14261/0

Fossil Tooth Remains Of Extinct Rodent Species Discovered: Oldest Find Within This Genus In The World

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090728083707.htm

Bird Population Declines In Northern Europe Explained By Thiamine (Vitamin B1) Deficiency

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090714154921.htm

Thiamine Deficiency

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

How geese squeeze oxygen from thin air

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/28/tech-090728-bar-headed-geese-oxygen-altitude-scott.html

Nearly extinct California frog rediscovered

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32129876/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Rana muscosa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_yellow-legged_frog

Rana muscosa (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/1019248


Rana muscosa (IUCN Red List – Endangered)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/19177/0


One in six species of freshwater crab face extinction

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8171000/8171268.stm



Insect defence all blood and guts

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8172000/8172168.stm

Acanthoplus discoidalis (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/651276



'Barcode' to help identify plants

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8172673.stm

DNA Barcoding

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

'Organic has no health benefits'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8174482.stm

Dye 'cuts spinal injury severity'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8170033.stm

Brilliant Blue G

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

'No doubt' sunbeds cause cancer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8172690.stm

Tanning Bed

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

Sea-level Rise and Rise of the Hippocampus & More for Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Hippocampus image licensed under Creative Commons by Tambako the Jaguar

Sonar Images Reveal Clues To Sea-level Rise

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505072502.htm

Larter et al. Subglacial bedforms reveal complex basal regime in a zone of paleo-ice stream convergence, Amundsen Sea embayment, West Antarctica. Geology, 2009; 37 (5): 411 DOI: 10.1130/G25505A.1

http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G25505A.1

Better Water Use Could Reduce Future Food Crises

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505061838.htm

Wildfires scorch parts of California, Arizona

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/06/western.wildfires/index.html

Prince, frog and friends fight for rainforests

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30599779/

The Prince’s Rainforest Project

http://www.rainforestsos.org/

http://www.rainforestsos.org/

Two Brown Bear Populations In Spain In Danger of Extinction Have Been Isolated For Past 50 Years


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429125243.htm


Ursus arctos



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

Hyena's laugh actually a sign of frustration

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30588225/

Crocuta crocuta

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

Ecosystem Gone Haywire: Cape Gannet Bird Threatened With Extinction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090424114309.htm

Morus capensis

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

Prosecutors: Smuggler hid 13 birds in his pants

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30593503/

'Sobering' Decline Of Caribbean's Big Fish, Fisheries: Overfishing Deemed Most Likely Cause

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505200711.htm

Overfishing

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

Seahorses 'stood up' 25 million years ago

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30600080/

Hippocampus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus_(fish)

Ants In Southern Hemisphere Richer And More Diversified Than Northern Hemisphere Ants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506094103.htm

Formicidae

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

How Social Insects Recognize Dead Nestmates

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505124750.htm

Necrophoresis

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O8-necrophoresis.html

Sewage Treatment In The East May Be Enough To Reduce Baltic Algal Blooms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506093835.htm

How spicy foods can kill cancers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6244715.stm

Capsaicin

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

Scientists pinpoint fats danger

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8033205.stm

Great apes suffer setback in EU animal testing vote

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5443is-us-eu-animals-testing/

EU and US reach deal in beef row

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8036202.stm

Livestock traceback participation disappoints -USDA

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5446sw-us-livestock-tracking-study/

Car made from veg runs on chocolate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8031737.stm

Astronomer To Search Space For Precursors Of Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429151946.htm

Scientists hunt swine flu's mysterious origins

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/06/swine.flu.origins/index.html

Swine flu is same strain in Canada and Mexico

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/06/swine-flu-sequencing060.html

Does New Swine Flu Virus Kill By Causing A 'Cytokine Storm'?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505174547.htm

Cytokine

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

Flu virus kills Texan, European cases reach Sweden

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5430s8-us-flu/

Flu Pandemic In Prison?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505174549.htm

For Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Earth Day 2009

http://www.earthday.net/

Earth Day (Wikipedia)

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

Growing Antarctic Sea Ice Tied To Ozone Hole

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421101629.htm

Plants Could Override Climate Change Effects On Wildfires

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421111701.htm

New hope for rainforests in Panama

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/21/panama.deforestation/index.html

Lab finds new method to turn biomass into gasoline

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53k4uu-us-biofuels-usa-study/

Secret To Night Vision Found In DNA's Unconventional 'Architecture'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416125159.htm

Ancestor of T rex found in China

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8010292.stm

Sightings show cougars expanding into central US

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090422/ap_on_re_us/us_living_with_lions;_ylt=AguTZXpy3OIvYdTA4BJz01Ks0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlMjJpNjU5BHBvcwM1OQRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3Vfc19uZXdzBHNsawNzaWdodGluZ3NzaG8-

Puma concolor

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

Woman attacked by 200-pound wild hog in her yard

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090422/ap_on_fe_st/odd_wild_hog_attack;_ylt=Apn8YaZcQdH1CIEkxtguDsPtiBIF

Seabirds' Suitability As A Mate Tied To Crest Size

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416190948.htm

Aethia cristatella

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

Guam Rhino Beetles Got Rhythm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090414102657.htm

Dynastinae

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

Are ants better than people at finding a home?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/8011998.stm

Pools become nasty mosquito havens in foreclosure

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30344932/

Gambusia affinis or Gambusia holbrooki

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

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

Egyptian boy dies of bird flu

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53k5tg-us-birdflu-egypt/

Swine flu cases in Calif. worry health officials

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30329560/

Swine flu

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

Walnuts May Prevent Breast Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421154325.htm

Juglans

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

Sugary drinks 'worsen vomit bug'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8010346.stm

Charred Meat May Increase Risk Of Pancreatic Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421154327.htm

Ultrasound Imaging Now Possible With Smartphone

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421120858.htm

Environmentally Friendly Beer Brewing: Repaired Gene Improves Commercial Lager Fermentation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421101635.htm

UK to bid for Mars sample centre

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8011299.stm

Search For Unusual Alien Life On Earth And Life That Can Survive On Mars

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421120906.htm

Ecologists Put Price Tag On Invasive Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420103542.htm

More Whale Beachings and More for Monday, March 23, 2009

Whales stranded on Australian beach

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7959005.stm

South Africa Tries to Halt Baboon Break-Ins

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7148512

Genomic Fossils In Lemurs Shed Light On Origin And Evolution Of HIV And Other Primate Lentiviruses

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319224524.htm

Mice Stay Lean With High-carb Diet

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319132919.htm

Genetic Mechanism In Mole Rats Can Be Targeted In Cancer Research

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090315223845.htm

Effects Of Stress Last For Life In Birds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317201137.htm

Wildlife flee Kenyan forest fires

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7959230.stm

Bees and ants 'operate in teams'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7957834.stm

Flies May Spread Drug-resistant Bacteria From Poultry Operations

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090316120846.htm

Deadly nerve toxin affecting deep ocean creatures

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52l145-us-sea-toxin/

Amnesic shellfish poisoning

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

Domoic acid

http://www.inchem.org/documents/pims/chemical/pim670.htm

New 'Green' Pesticides Are First To Exploit Plant Defenses In Battle Of The Fungi

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323110447.htm

Tree Species Composition Influences Nitrogen Loss From Forests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090316133438.htm

Internet Can Warn Of Ecological Changes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319104033.htm

Synthetic blood from embryos bid

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7958582.stm

Cancer drug 'fuels tumour growth'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7954472.stm

Anti-angiogenesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-angiogenesis

Superbug Complicates Treatment Of Infections In Cystic Fibrosis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317200946.htm

Special Yogurt Fights Stomach Ulcer Bacteria

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090322154405.htm

Helicobacter pylori

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

Custom Carbohydrates: New Field Of Medicine?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090322154409.htm

How Proteins Find The Right DNA Sequences

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090316092008.htm

Study finds 10 genes that raise sudden death risk

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52l13v-us-heart-genes/

Canadian researchers launch trial to test faster tuberculosis therapy

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/03/23/tuberculosis-drugs.html