News tagged with egg laying mammal
Wildlife Conservation Society supports world's first study of egg-laying mammal
Jun 09, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
0
A Wildlife Conservation Society research intern working in the wilds of Papua New Guinea has successfully completed what many other field biologists considered "mission impossible"—the first study of a rare ...
Search results for egg laying mammal
Wood ant queen has no egg-laying monopoly
Biology /
Jun 28, 2007 |
3 / 5 (3) |
0
The reproductive monopoly of the ant queen is not as strong as is often thought. Dr. Heikki Helanterä and Prof. Lotta Sundström, biologists working at the University of Helsinki, Finland, investigated worker ovary development ...
Scientists Discover Which Waters Egg-Laying Mosquitoes Like Best
Biology /
Jul 10, 2008 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
0
Scientists at Tulane and North Carolina State universities have identified the chemical cues in water that entice yellow fever mosquitoes to lay their eggs. The study is the first to isolate the compounds that the finicky ...
How do marine turtles return to the same beach to lay their eggs?
Biology /
Feb 26, 2007 |
4.1 / 5 (7) |
0
Marine turtles almost always return to the same beach to lay their eggs. The egg-laying sites are often far from the feeding areas and the females cross several hundred kilometers of ocean with no visual landmarks. How do ...
Why solitary reptiles lay eggs in communal nests
Sep 03, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
Reptiles are not known to be the most social of creatures. But when it comes to laying eggs, female reptiles can be remarkably communal, often laying their eggs in the nests of other females. New research in the September ...
Loss of egg yolk genes in mammals and the origin of lactation and placentation
Biology /
Mar 18, 2008 |
4.1 / 5 (8) |
0
If you are reading this, you did not start your life by hatching from an egg. This is one of the many traits that you share with our mammalian relatives. A new paper in this week’s PLoS Biology explores the ge ...
Happier, healthier, more productive hens on omega-3?
Jul 13, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Most of us are aware of the potential health benefits of omega-3 found in fish oil and flax seed. Now researchers are looking at how omega-3 may help laying hens avoid bone damage.
Small furry animal lived with dinosaurs
Jan 12, 2006 |
4.2 / 5 (6) |
0
The fossil of a small, furry insect-eating animal that walked like a platypus has been found in China.
Scientists discover chemical cues that stimulate egg laying by pregnant mosquitoes
Biology /
Jul 07, 2008 |
not rated yet |
0
North Carolina State University scientists have figured out one reason why pregnant yellow fever mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti), one of the most important disease transmitters worldwide, choose to lay their eggs in certain outdoo ...
Paleontologists discover a new Mesozoic mammal
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 08, 2009 |
4.2 / 5 (10) |
0
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA…An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of mammal that lived 123 million years ago in what is now the Liaoning Province in northeastern China. The ...
Early bird doesn't always get worm, researcher finds
Biology /
Mar 12, 2008 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
Competing against older brothers and sisters can be tough work, as any youngest child will tell you. But new research from a biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that when it comes to some birds, ...
List of search results for egg laying mammal
