News tagged with natural history
Darwin meets Facebook
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Natural history plans to chart life on earth, yet the discipline risks being buried under a landslide of painstakingly collected data that isn't always used. Now researchers at London's Natural History Museum have created ...
Ants get their place in Smithsonian exhibit
May 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Running a museum is no picnic, but the Smithsonian is attracting ants anyway.
47-million-year-old fossil could shed light on primate family tree
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A 47-million-year-old primate fossil, a purported "missing link" between primates and humans, was unveiled this week in New York. The fossil, formally called Darwinius masillae but nicknamed ...
Fossil fish shows oldest live birth
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Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A 380-million-year-old fossil fish that shows an unborn embryo and umbilical cord has been discovered, scientists report in the journal Nature.
Fossilised pregnant fish was one of the first animals to have sex
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Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A pregnant fossil fish at the Natural History Museum in London has shed light on the possible origin of sex, according to a study published in Nature today by an international team includ ...
Move over, sponges: New evidence confirms Placozoans are the closest living surrogate to the ancestor of all animals
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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A new and comprehensive analysis confirms that the evolutionary relationships among animals are not as simple as previously thought. The traditional idea that animal evolution has followed a trajectory from ...
'Great speciators' explained: It's intrinsic
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Jan 26, 2009 |
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New molecular research shows that birds within the family Zosteropidae—named white eyes for the feathers that frame their eyes—form new species at a faster rate than any other known bird. Remarkably, unlike ...
Microscopic morphology adds to the scorpion family tree
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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Modern microscopy technology has allowed two scorpion biologists, Carsten Kamenz of the Humboldt University in Berlin and Lorenzo Prendini of the American Museum of Natural History, to study and document what ...
Dwarf crocodiles split into three species
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Dec 12, 2008 |
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You'd think that if scientists were to discover a new species, it would be in some remote, uncharted tropical forest, not a laboratory in New York. But a team from the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics ...
Death by hyperdisease: DNA detective work explains the extinction of Christmas Island's native rats
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Nov 05, 2008 |
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It took less than a decade for native rats to become extinct on the Indian Ocean's previously uninhabited Christmas Island once Eurasian black rats jumped ship onto the island at the turn of the 20th century. ...
Luck gave dinosaurs their edge
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Sep 11, 2008 |
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By comparing early dinosaurs to their closest competitors, the curuotarsans, Steve Brusatte of the American Museum of Natural History and colleagues have found that dinosaurs had no special ability to dominate ...
