Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid ...

Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf

Biology / Other

3 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.

Bigger not necessarily better, when it comes to brains

Biology / Plants & Animals

Nov 17, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (18) | 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London.

Extinct goat was cold-blooded

Biology / Plants & Animals

Nov 18, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (33) | 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extinct goat that lived on a barren Mediterranean island survived for millions of years by reducing in size and by becoming cold-blooded, which has never before been discovered in mammals.

Right-handed chimpanzees provide clues to the origin of human language

Biology / Plants & Animals

Nov 16, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 7

Most of the linguistic functions in humans are controlled by the left cerebral hemisphere. A study of captive chimpanzees at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center (Atlanta, Georgia), reported in the January 2010 issue ...