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Friday, July 10, 2009

Dino Burrows Discovered and Rhino Poaching Rising and More for Friday/Thursday, July 10/9, 2009

G8 pledges to boost food supplies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8143566.stm

Oldest dinosaur burrow discovered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8144000/8144199.stm

How much CO2 does this article produce?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/07/10/green.internet.CO2/index.html

Bisphenol A traces found in baby food: Health Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/07/10/bisphenola-bpa-baby-food-bottled-water-health-canada.html

Bisphenol A

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

Whale and dolphins washed up on Senegal coast: WWF

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090710/sc_afp/senegalenvironmentanimal;_ylt=AtA5L.LHICjUeDrQuLVqLloPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJ1aWZpZHBkBGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDA5MDcxMC9zZW5lZ2FsZW52aXJvbm1lbnRhbmltYWwEcG9zAzkEc2VjA3luX2FydGljbGVfc3VtbWFyeV9saXN0BHNsawN3aGFsZWFuZGRvbHA-

Speedy cheetahs put through paces

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8137962.stm

Acinonyx jubatus

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

Concern over Ebola virus in pigs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8143823.stm

Ebola

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

WATCH: Great Moose Chase Hits Suburbs

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=8015166

Alces alces

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


Seals Quickly Respond To Gain And Loss Of Habitat Under Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709201849.htm

Mirounga

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

Mirounga leonina

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

Mirounga leonine (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/328639

Prairie Dogs: Influencing The Accumulation Of Metals In Plants?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090623162121.htm

Cynomys

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

Baby boom at Tokyo zoo

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A trio of monkey babies in Indonesia

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Climate Events Let Ice Age Mammoths Pass Far Below The 40°N Latitude

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709132057.htm

Mammuthus

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

Straighten Up And Fly Right: Moths Benefit More From Flexible Wings Than Rigid


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090629200836.htm

Methane-eating Microbes Use Oxides To 'Breathe'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709140815.htm

Nestle dough’s E. coli doesn’t match outbreak

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31836583/ns/health-food_safety/

Attractive Males Release Fewer Sperm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709095425.htm

Withdrawal Syndrome After Consumption Of Designer Drug 'Spice Gold'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709072911.htm

Spice (*drug*)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_(drug)

For Thursday, July 9, 2009

Life Exploded In Earth's Early Greening

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090708153235.htm

Ice Volume Of Switzerland’s Glaciers Calculated

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090622064813.htm

Some Particles Cool Climate, Others Add To Global Warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619125905.htm

'15-year high' for rhino poaching

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8142180.stm

First Evidence That Weed Killers Improve Nutritional Value Of A Key Food Crop

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090708094830.htm

Tests raise life extension hopes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8139816.stm

Sirolimus

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

Low-calorie diet slows aging in monkeys

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5684q6-us-monkeys-diet/

How Proteins Assemble Into Complex Patterns

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090708132820.htm

Life without men

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8142104.stm

The Disappearing Male - CBC

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/disappearingmale/

Domestication Of Chile Pepper Provides Insights Into Crop Origin And Evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619152137.htm

Chili pepper

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

Saharan Dust Storms Linked To Enigmatic Fertilizer Plankton In Ocean

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619125903.htm

World’s First-hydrogen Powered Yacht With A Fully Integrated Laboratory Will Study Mediterranean Pollution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619125909.htm

Video: New questions about bottled water

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Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Fishermen Dine on Megachasma and DNA Help for Rhincodon and More for Wednesday, April 8, 2008

Fancy some meat? Chimpanzees exchange hunting booty for sex

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7988169.stm

Pan

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

Studies Of Hyena Skull Development Put Teeth Into New Female Dominance Theory

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331112851.htm

Crocuta crocuta

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

Poison -- It's What's For Dinner: Hunt Narrows For Genes That Let Packrats Eat Creosote

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406072919.htm

Neotoma

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

Creosote

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

Rare megamouth shark caught, eaten in Philippines

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090407/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_rare_shark

Megachasma pelagios

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

DNA Tracks Threatened Whale Sharks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090407145159.htm

Rhincodon typus

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

Antarctic Marine Biodiversity Data Now Online

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331133539.htm

Antarctic marine biodiversity link

http://www.scarmarbin.be/

Cat found alive after 5 weeks under rubble

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090407/od_nm/us_germany_cat

Felis catus

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

Fish farms to fight back with EU help

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7989295.stm

Butterflies hit by damp summers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7988232.stm

Tanzania Study Reopens Debate On Targeting Mosquito Larvae To Control Malaria

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330200718.htm

Malaria

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

Control, Treatment Of Bed Bugs Challenging

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331183504.htm

Cimicidae

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

To Swim Or To Crawl: For The Worm It's A No Brainer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331091254.htm

Caenorhabditis elegans

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

Fragility Of World's Coral Is Revealed Through Study Of Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406132609.htm

Anthozoa

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

Mouse Models Of Leukemia That Predict Response To Chemotherapy Developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331183753.htm

Leukemia

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

Bad Mix Of Bacterial Remnants And Genetics Leads To Arthritis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331101111.htm

‘Junk’ DNA assists evolution

http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20090604-18994.html

Mysterious mouth reaction linked to pollen

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/08/oral.allergy.syndrome/index.html

Oral sex throat cancer link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6639461.stm

Warning issued over some ground beef sold in Manitoba, Sask., Ontario

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/04/08/mb-beeef-recall.html


More pistachios recalled as salmonella verified

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30078271/

Pistacia vera

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

Use Of Native Southern African Plants In Veterinary Medicine

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330123245.htm

Going Bananas For Sustainable Research: Scientists Create Fuel From African Crop Waste

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406132819.htm

Musa

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

Rapid Shifts In Wildfire Hotspots To Come?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090407223642.htm

PM heralds 'green economy' Budget

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7989015.stm

Beach rubbish problem 'piling up'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7988726.stm

What's In Your Water? Disinfectants Create Toxic By-products In Drinking Water And Public Swimming Pools


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331112725.htm
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Friday, February 06, 2009

For Friday, February 6, 2009




Census Of Modern Organisms Reveals Echo Of Ancient Mass Extinction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205142139.htm

Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event

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

Origin Of Claws Seen In Fossil 390 Million Years Old

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205142145.htm

Key Insights Into How New Species Emerge

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205161109.htm

40-foot whale dies on icy beach

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2009/02/05/sotvo.ma.stranded.whale.dead.stringer

Dog gene 'may aid wolf survival'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7872826.stm

Raccoons Sneak Onto White House Grounds

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/02/raccoons-sneak.html

Procyon lotor

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

Birds' Strategic Mobbing Fends Off Parasitic Invaders

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090129122514.htm

Acrocephalus

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

Birds do it: 10 wild animal sex antics

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29042787/

Images: New frog species discovered

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Holy Guacamole: Invasive Beetle Threatens Florida's Avocados

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090204121537.htm

Ambrosia beetle

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

Persea americana

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

Guacamole

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

Ants tricked into raising butterflies

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29038257/

Pathway And Enzyme Unique To Deadly Tularemia Organism Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203110551.htm

Tularemia

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

Understanding Phosphorus In Soils Is Vital To Proper Management

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090204112235.htm

Phosphorus

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

Study: Climate change may reshuffle western weeds

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/ap_on_sc/farm_scene_western_weeds;_ylt=AlwVIg_jueSNST5.PD3_uk4PLBIF
































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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

For Wednesday, January 28, 2009




Cell Phones Dangerous For Child Pedestrians, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126112429.htm

Top doctor admits she made up the condition 'cello scrotum'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7853564.stm

Evolution: Not Just Due To Natural Selection?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126203207.htm

EU calls for US action on climate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7856120.stm

UK gets biofuels research centre

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7851344.stm

Dynamical Theory And Novel 4-D Colorimetric Method Reveal Modus Operandi Of Intact Living Brain

Genetics Of Popularity In Social Networks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126173604.htm

Newborn Infants Detect The Beat In Music

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127083540.htm

New Tree Of Life Sets Lower Metazoans Apart

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126203157.htm

Metazoan

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

DR Congo gorilla numbers up 12.5%

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7852953.stm

Iceland sets major whaling quota

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7854705.stm

Australia denies whaling 'deal'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7852649.stm

Iceland raises quota for whale hunts

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090128/ap_on_re_eu/eu_iceland_whaling;_ylt=AnU9OIY0vtRoiAI.S7aE91cPLBIF

Bears, Gazelles And Rats Inspire New Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Treatment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127170708.htm

OCD

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

Emperor penguins face extinction

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7851276.stm

Aptenodytes forsteri

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

Birds Survived Mass Extinction That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Because Of Their Larger Brains

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127165505.htm

Grouse numbers in north falling

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7853393.stm

Tetrao tetrix

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

Seabird’s Ocean Lifestyle Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126162256.htm

Puffinus puffinus

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

White Eyed Birds Diversify Across A Hemispheric Range Faster Than Any Other Bird

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126173719.htm

Zosteropidae

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

Snowy owls swoop southward, delighting birders

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090128/ap_on_re_us/snowy_owls;_ylt=AnLFTtH.QxYgNaAYmWRGe5MPLBIF

Bubo scandiacus

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

Butterflies Across Europe Face Crisis As Climate Change Looms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126102043.htm

Lepidoptera

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

Honey Bees Can Tell The Difference Between Different Numbers At A Glance

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127202103.htm

Gene-engineered Flies Are Pest Solution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126203205.htm

Bacterial Intestinal Infections: Was It The Chicken Salad, Private Well Water, Or The Swim?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126173831.htm

Idaho's Poor in Danger From Fish?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6747317

Ancient Wounds Reveal Triceratops Battles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127202044.htm

Triceratops

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

Scientists zero in on Earth's original animal

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28865038/

Placozoa

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

N. American Comet Impact Theory Disproved










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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Global Warming is Real - For Wednesday, January 21, 2009

General Mills, Kroger pull peanut butter items

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28749159/

Number sickened by salmonella climbs to 485

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28761177/

Japan study group says cloned animals safe for food

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090120/hl_nm/us_food_cloning_japan;_ylt=AvVZJFkyDlkcxF_RTnJZ.b8PLBIF

Animal rights campaigners jailed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7837064.stm

Scientists 'See' Cell Molecules More Clearly

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090119210535.htm

Welsh bird numbers declining

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7841295.stm

Europe’s Aquatic Birds Will Seek New Nesting Sites In Face Of Global Warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121092357.htm

Plenty spent on endangered species list's tortoise

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090120/ap_on_re_us/desert_tortoise_money;_ylt=Am2Hje0qy.zcpw6gWEWip70PLBIF

Gopherus agassizii

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

Mistaken Identity: Texas State Dinosaur Needs Name Change

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090114/sc_livescience/mistakenidentitytexasstatedinosaurneedsnamechange;_ylt=AoqgA7CZYPDTdMg_1aqnP9kPLBIF

Paluxysaurus jonesi

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


Reptile Fossil Reignites Debate Over New Zealand Submergence

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121092403.htm

Nile run-off 'boosts fish stocks'
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Thursday, January 08, 2009

For Thursday, January 8, 2009



Raphus cucullatus image licensed under Creative Commons by Jeremy Burgin

Every animal counts - zoos begin their annual stock-take

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7817194.stm

Gu Gu strikes again! Panda attacks zoo visitor

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28554008/

Ten Extinct Beasts That Could Walk the Earth Again

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126905.000-ten-extinct-beasts-that-could-walk-the-earth-again.html?full=true

How big Jurassic flying reptiles got off ground

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090108/ap_on_sc/sci_flying_dinos;_ylt=AjbIFGK38SA85VkKzQZMBCes0NUE

'Spookfish' uses mirrors as well as lenses to spot its prey

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7815540.stm

Dolichopteryx longipes

http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=9121&genusname=Dolichopteryx&speciesname=longipes

Hind Wings Help Butterflies Make Swift Turns To Evade Predators, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090108101635.htm

Lepidoptera

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

Asian Grasslands May Hold Global Promise To Restore Grasslands In Arid Areas

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081228193530.htm

First flight of algae-fuelled jet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7817849.stm

USDA taking applications for Cattail eradication








To Climate-change Worries, Add One More: Extended Mercury Threat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090107134635.htm

Avian Flu Becoming More Resistant To Antiviral Drugs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090107122658.htm

Dangerous New Method For Bacterial Toxin Transfer Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090106145004.htm

New Bartonella Species That Infects Humans Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090106145006.htm

Bartonella

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

Wonderful Cheese Is All In The Culture

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090106144945.htm

Testes Stem Cells Change Into Other Tissues

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090105154256.htm

Lab discloses problem with vitamin D testing

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28557342/
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