Tortoises/Turtles/Herptiles in the News, The Permian Extinction and More for Friday, May 29, 2009

* Dermochelys coriacea image (right) and image (left) licensed under Creative Commons by Paul Mannix

China volcano may have caused mass extinction

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_sc/us_sci_volcano_extinction;_ylt=AqqENEvXU52v1UvNNVj5B2.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlNG90bDliBHBvcwMxMTkEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNjaGluYXZvbGNhbm8-

Permian Extinction

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

Red Glow Sheds Light on Ocean Health

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090529/sc_livescience/redglowshedslightonoceanhealth;_ylt=AicPkj8Ey5KgBPtJxMWKzGYPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTNsZTYxZnVxBGFzc2V0Ay9saXZlc2NpZW5jZS8yMDA5MDUyOS9zY19saXZlc2NpZW5jZS9yZWRnbG93c2hlZHNsaWdodG9ub2NlYW5oZWFsdGgEcG9zAzEEc2

Report: Climate change crisis 'catastrophic'

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/29/annan.climate.change.human/index.html

Climate pressure 'building on US'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8073434.stm

Most Polluted Ecosystems Can Recover, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527105713.htm

Greening Arctic Not Likely To Offset Permafrost Carbon Release

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527130826.htm

Spring Agricultural Fires Have Large Impact On Melting Arctic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526140850.htm

U.S. company finds "safer" way to make stem-like cells

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54r6ti-us-stemcells-reprogramming/

Why Coral Reefs Around The World Are Collapsing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528142819.htm

Malaria parasites 'resist drugs'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8073118.stm

Beavers return after 400-year gap

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8072443.stm

Castor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_(genus)

Rare Madagascan tortoises stolen

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8072000/8072511.stm

Geochelone yniphora

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

Astrochelys yniphora (IUCN Red List Link Species notation: Geochelone yniphora nomenclature not located in the IUCN Red List nor the EOL pages. Only Astrochelys yniphora could be located). Critically endangered.

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/9016/0

Astrochelys yniphora (EOL Link – no image)

http://eol.org/pages/794291

* 'Crazy' woman saves sea turtles from slaughter

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/28/cnnheroes.suzan.lakhan.baptiste/index.html

Dermochelys coriacea

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

Dermochelys coriacea (IUCN Red List Link)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/6494/0

Dermochelys coriacea (EOL Link)

http://eol.org/pages/815711

Everglades swamped with invading pythons

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090528/od_nm/us_everglades_pythons;_ylt=AmBwHA7bgxDK5Rw39xaTnmqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFmaDY5MHJyBHBvcwMyMDYEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9vZGRfbmV3cwRzbGsDZXZlcmdsYWRlc3N3

Pythonidae

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

Toothy sharks once ruled Tuscany

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30987630/


Non-toxic Hull Coating Resists Barnacles, May Save Ship Owners Millions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528110623.htm

Cirripedia

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

Honey Bee Colony Losses In U.S. Almost 30 Percent From All Causes From September 2008 To April 2009

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090522180642.htm


Waxy Plant Substance Key For Absorption Of Water, Nutrients

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090522154506.htm

Suberin

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

Discoveries Upend Traditional Thinking About How Plants Make Certain Compounds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526094249.htm

Unexpected Bacterial Diversity On Human Skin

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528142821.htm

New killer virus found in Africa

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30989694/

Lujo virus

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


Virtual Reconstruction Of A Neanderthal Woman’s Birth Canal Reveals Insights Into Evolution Of Human Child Birth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528133423.htm

Homo neandethalensis

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

Study: Climate change kills 300,000 a year

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30998907/

Lessons From The Past: Research Examines How Past Communities Coped With Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527103528.htm

Climate change

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


Antibiotic Multi-resistance: Why Bacteria Are So Effective

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527170308.htm

Carbon capture technology tested

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8072583.stm

Aker Clean Carbon

http://www.akercleancarbon.com/index.cfm

Ancient Mudstones Could Provide Alternative Source Of Energy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527110137.htm

Mudstone

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

Obama moves to curb road-building in forests

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_roadless_forests;_ylt=AvTmbw5.dA7uNp__kF5jGoCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlNjlocG03BHBvcwMxMjEEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNvYmFtYW1vdmVzdG8-

Decreased Ice Melt - Due to Lead? and More for Friday, May 15, 2009

Ice sheet melt threat reassessed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8050094.stm

Global Warming Curbed By Lead Pollution?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512093542.htm

Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513130942.htm

Breakthrough In The Treatment Of Bacterial Meningitis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513121048.htm

New Tissue Scaffold Regrows Cartilage And Bone

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511122429.htm

Brain chemical may play key role in anxiety

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54b6v6-us-anxiety-brain/

Basic fibroblast growth factor 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibroblast_growth_factor_2

Eating Fish, Nuts And Olive Oil May Be Associated With Reduced Risk Of Age-related Blindness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511164235.htm

Neandertals Sophisticated And Fearless Hunters, New Analysis Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514084115.htm

Homo neanderthalensis

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

Swine flu closes schools

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1072102

Human noses too cold for bird flu

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8050523.stm

Tall story: Scientists fail to get to the bottom of giraffe evolution

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8050000/8050298.stm

Giraffa camelopardalis

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

Australian court halts killing of kangaroos

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090514/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_killing_kangaroos;_ylt=Agc3N8_zytePmxJ1kQqSndkPLBIF

Surfer rescues drowning kangaroo

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8051264.stm

Exhibit explores world of weird mammals

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20090514/ap_tr_ge/us_travel_brief_extreme_mammals;_ylt=AhDkxpY1r0cufJYY10XK0VOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkMG9zMzhkBHBvcwMxNjUEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl90cmF2ZWwEc2xrA2V4aGliaXRleHBsbw--

More Critically Endangered Birds On Red List

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513224124.htm

Anodorhynchus leari

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

Eriocnemis isabellae

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

Heteromirafra sidamoensis

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

Camarhynchus pauper

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

Bizarre bird gets private beach in Indonesia

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090515/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_bird_beach;_ylt=ArSGvqRjbESsUhuzXXiZ7gIPLBIF

Macrocephalon maleo

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

Hopes of fitting tags to ospreys

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8050529.stm

Fish that triggers hallucinations found off British coast

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5318202/Fish-that-triggers-hallucinations-found-off-British-coast.html

Sarpa salpa

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=204&genusname=Sarpa&speciesname=salpa

For Northern Shrimp Populations In North Atlantic, Timing Is Everything

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507145749.htm

Pandalus borealis

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

Oldest Example Of Mutualism: Termites And Protozoa Discovered Together In Ancient Amber

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514153139.htm

George O Poinar Jr. Description of an early Cretaceous termite (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) and its associated intestinal protozoa, with comments on their co-evolution. Parasites & Vectors, 2009; 2 (12) DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-2-12

http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-2-12



Dire warnings of insect extinctions may be wide of the mark

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8040000/8040926.stm

Scorpion Sting: Antivenom Results In Prompt Recovery From Nerve Poisoning, Study Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513173452.htm

How Bees Hold Onto Flowers: 'Velcro'-like Structures On Flower Petals Help Bees Stick

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514125148.htm

Coral: Climate Change Could Displace Millions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513130953.htm

The plant that can water itself

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8049000/8049850.stm

Rheum palaestinum

http://www.zipcodezoo.com/Plants/R/Rheum_palaestinum.asp

Ginger Found to Ease Nausea of Cancer Treatment

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/health/15cancer.html?ref=global-home

Medicinal Plant Kava Safe And Effective In Reducing Anxiety, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511122619.htm

Piper methysticum

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

Potential Anti-ulcer Herb Medicine: Rocket 'Eruca Sativa'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507101824.htm

Eruca sativa

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

Medicinal Plant, St John's Wort, May Reduce Neuronal Degeneration Caused By Parkinson's Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511181252.htm

Hypericum perforatum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_Wort

Switchgrass Genome May Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512134651.htm

Panicum virgatum

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

Grilling With Charcoal Less Climate-friendly Than Grilling With Propane, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512093254.htm

For Saturday, July 5, 2008

Golden eagle photo licensed under Creative Commons by insecta62

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080705/ap_on_sc/asia_orangutans

Study: Orangutan populations declining sharply - Yahoo! News


http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080702/sc_livescience/tigersvanishinnepal;_ylt=Ak9NWaQNczyIqs99ps6J4nUPLBIF

Tigers Vanish in Nepal - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080702/ts_afp/environmentsciencespeciesextinction;_ylt=Ar16KpJVRFWFu4WeZB9muMIPLBIF

Extinction risks vastly underestimated: study - Yahoo! News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/7490202.stm

BBC NEWS Have Your Say Tofu 'may raise risk of dementia'

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

Tofu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2008/07/tofumentia.html

Tofumentia


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7489038.stm

BBC NEWS Americas Stolen fossils back in Argentina

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7483451.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Diamonds hint at 'earliest life'

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

Hadean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7489000.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Badger cull proposals 'rejected'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger_%28animal%29

Badger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7485839.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature True cost of the ocean heist

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7486169.stm

BBC NEWS Africa Africa moves to stop fish theft

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7483750.stm

BBC NEWS UK Scotland Highlands and Islands Report finds golden eagle decline

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7483832.stm

BBC NEWS Health Cold sore virus secret revealed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex_virus_1

Herpes simplex virus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080703145849.htm

'Mind's Eye' Influences Visual Perception


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080702132219.htm

Worms Do Calculus To Find Meals Or Avoid Unpleasantness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080702160950.htm

Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence Located In Ohio, Indiana

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080703160749.htm

Agriculture Linked To Frog Sexual Abnormalities

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080703181839.htm

Puzzle In The Control Of Cell Division Unraveled

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080704154143.htm

To Multiply, Ant Colonies Adapt To Environmental Conditions


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25502281/

Rising temperatures could doom reptile - LiveScience- msnbc.com

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

Sphenodon

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/07/03/medicine.biomimic/index.html

Humpback whales pioneer new heart treatment - CNN.com