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Ears tuned to water

(PhysOrg.com) -- For bats any smooth, horizontal surface is water. Even so if vision, olfaction or touch tells them it is actually a metal, plastic or wooden plate. Bats therefore rely more on their ears than ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study finds surprising new branches on arthropod family tree

Any way you look at it -- by sheer weight, species diversity or population -- the hard-shelled, joint-legged creepy crawlies called arthropods dominate planet Earth. Because of their success and importance, scientists have ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 10, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ancient cave draws MSU archaeologists to southeast Montana

(PhysOrg.com) -- Eryka Thorley had already excavated ancient fire hearths and stone flakes, but a severe thunderstorm on the final day of field work added a new dimension to the archaeology dig in southeast ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 23, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Remarkable journeys may save bat species

Researchers have new hope for the future of an endangered species of bat after two of the flying mammals traveled 110 miles to a Welsh cave to live.

Biology /

created Jul 12, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Remote Island Provides Clues on Population Growth, Environmental Degradation

Halfway between South America and New Zealand, in the remote South Pacific, is Rapa. This horseshoe-shaped, 13.5 square-mile island of volcanic origin, located essentially in the middle of nowhere, is “a microcosm ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 28, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0


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