News tagged with zoology museum

Darwin egg from Beagle voyage found by museum volunteer

(PhysOrg.com) -- An egg collected by Charles Darwin while on HMS Beagle - and thought to be the last such specimen known to exist - has been rediscovered by an octogenarian volunteer at Cambridge University's Zoology Museum.

Biology / Other

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (11) | comments 2




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Blind moles use beauty for function, not fancy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long wondered why a blind mole that lives in underground darkness has beautiful iridescent hair. After all, many animals or birds with magnificent features exhibit their colorful ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Genome tree of life is largest yet for seed plants

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, The New York Botanical Garden, and New York University have created the largest genome-based tree of life for seed plants ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New creatures from the deep identified

(PhysOrg.com) -- Strange deep sea creatures discovered by Aberdeen researchers have been confirmed as three new species previously unknown to science.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Unravelling the causes of the Ice Age megafauna extinctions

Was it humans or climate change that caused the extinctions of the iconic Ice Age mammals (megafauna) such as the woolly rhinoceros and woolly mammoth?

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Using satellite data to decode disease origins

Uncovering the origin of illness is like finding a needle in a haystack, but that search is getting easier with the help of powerful tools like genetic analysis and satellite data.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Sabre-toothed squirrel': First known mammalian skull from Late Cretaceous discovered in South America

Paleontologist Guillermo Rougier, Ph.D., professor of anatomical sciences and neurobiology at the University of Louisville, and his team have reported their discovery of two skulls from the first known mammal ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A new species of gall makers in the aphid genus of plant lice was found in China

Aphid researchers from Chinese Academy of Sciences found one new species, Aleurodaphis sinojackiae Qiao & Jiang, 2011 from Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces, China. It forms leaf galls on Jack trees (Sinojackia x ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Unknown species and larval stages of extremely long-legged beetles discovered by DNA test

The unknown larval stages and a new species of the curious Spider Water Beetles were described after their assignment by DNA sequences. These taxonomic works are groundwork for the development of water quality ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In bubble-rafting snails, the eggs came first

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's "Waterworld" snail style: Ocean-dwelling snails that spend most of their lives floating upside down, attached to rafts of mucus bubbles.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

DNA confirms existence of NZ bird thought extinct

(PhysOrg.com) -- An examination of ancient and modern DNA by the University of Otago has confirmed that the New Zealand storm-petrel, once thought to be extinct, is a bird which continues to fly our southern ...

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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