News tagged with land animals

Algae may be sustainable alternative for animal feed

The pigs and poultry in Professor Xingen Lei's lab have been consuming feed one wouldn't expect in Ithaca: marine algae.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

U.S. announces desert 'solar energy zones'

The Obama administration on Thursday announced its plan for solar energy development, directing large-scale industrial projects to 285,000 acres of desert in the Western U.S. while opening 20 million acres of the Mojave for ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 9

Sustaining young forest communities

The recent Southern Research Station (SRS) publication Sustaining Young Forest Communities: Ecology and Management of Early Successional Habitats in the Central Hardwood Region, USA, addresses a variety of concerns raised ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How the mole got its 12 fingers

Polydactyly is a hereditary anomaly that is relatively common in both humans and animals. Moles also have additional fingers. In their case, however, the irregularity compared to the five-finger formula of ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Body temperatures of dinosaurs measured for the first time

(PhysOrg.com) -- Were dinosaurs slow and lumbering, or quick and agile? It depends largely on whether they were cold or warm blooded. When dinosaurs were first discovered in the mid-19th century, paleontologists ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Dual parasitic infections deadly to marine mammals

A study of tissue samples from 161 marine mammals that died between 2004 and 2009 in the Pacific Northwest reveals an association between severe illness and co-infection with two kinds of parasites normally ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study: Animals populated Madagascar by rafting there

How did the lemurs, flying foxes and narrow-striped mongooses get to the large, isolated island of Madagascar sometime after 65 million years ago?

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Trees evolved camouflage defense against long extinct predator: First evidence of camouflage defense in plants

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many animal species such as snakes, insects and fish have evolved camouflage defences to deter attack from their predators. However research published in New Phytologist has discovered that t ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 30

Study shows Human Sounds may Kill Fish

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anthropogenic, or human generated, sounds have the potential to significantly affect the lives of aquatic animals - from the individual animal’s well-being, right through to its reproduction, migration and ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0