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Wild Carpathia - Filming the Last Untouched European Wilderness
Posted Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:41:00 GMT by Julian JacksonDocumentary featuring Prince of Wales premieres on Travel Channel. Wild Carpathia is a stunning documentary about a little-known part of Europe. Romania has a huge virtually-untouched area of mountains almost the size of Britain.
Wild Carpathia - Filming the Last Untouched European Wilderness
The Coral Triangle in Print
Posted Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:21:00 GMT by Dave CollierA book has been commissioned by the WWF to highlight the importance of the Coral Triangle. Covering approximately 6 million square kilometres of land and sea, the Coral Triangle is one of the world's most important natural habitats. It includes several nations including Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines and provides sustenance for over 120 million people.
The Coral Triangle in Print
A low oxygen switch may save crops from flooding
Posted Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:27:01 GMT by Dave CollierResearchers have been investigating the mechanisms that allow some rice varieties to survive flooding. They believe that this will result in flood resistant crops.
A low oxygen switch may save crops from flooding
Bees Please
Posted Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:49:01 GMT by Dave ArmstrongPersonally speaking, a new species always delights the soul and two new stingless bees can't get up anyone's nose. David Roubik of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute thinks that changing sea levels brought a 'new' bee to western Panama before Coiba and Rancheria were separated from the mainland, presumably after an Ice Age.
Bees Please
Coral Diversified
Posted Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:09:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongAs corals go, Seriatopora hystrix, the bird's nest coral, is one of the attractive stony (scleractinian) corals that people love to see on the reef. The fact that it has different varieties (is 'genetically partitioned') on the northern Barrier Reef, means that for the first time, we can study the mechanisms of the natural selection of their symbiont algae and the corals themselves.
Coral Diversified
Flatworm Sexuality
Posted Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:57:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongThe Turbellarian flatworms are cute, minute slug-like metazoans that are so primitive, they havent got a body space (or coelom) like the rest of the animal nation. We know that some flatworms, such as Dugesia, have at least three races with different reproductive modes: asexual race, sexual race, and physiological race.
Flatworm Sexuality
Piranha Pop
Posted Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:27:01 GMT by Dave ArmstrongMessrs Millot, Vandewalle and Parmentier took some piranhas to Liege and lost half of a finger. In the process, though, they managed to record the Red Belly sound. The red-bellied piranha, Pygocentrus nattereri has a good bark when it is picked up from the water, as do many of its kind.
Piranha Pop
Bringing up (T. rex) Baby
Posted Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:18:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongFive brave researchers have completed a computer analysis of Tyrannosaurus rex, looking especially at the implications for locomotion, ontogeny and growth. Giant dinosaurs grew quickly as far as we know, and the process is ultimately fascinating to everyone. From a 10 kg hatch weight to the 6000 kg adult Tyrannosaurus rex in 20 years is a speedy growth of a kind rarely found outside theropod dinosaurs.
Bringing up (T. rex) Baby
Birds like it sweet, bees like it sweeter
Posted Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:16:00 GMT by Dale KieferMIT mathematicians delved into the arena of biology recently to explore optimization in nature. It turns out, bees are 'dippers' who feed by probing flowers with their tongues. For them, a thicker, sweeter fluid is best. But birds and butterflies draw nectar through thin tubes, and that's easier when flowers supply a thinner, less sugary fluid.
Birds like it sweet, bees like it sweeter
Release the 'Kraken', well the Artistic Triassic Cephalopod
Posted Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:07:00 GMT by Dave CollierA strange explanation is given for a puzzling arrangement of Triassic era fossils. It could seem strange to apply the word 'artistic' to a Triassic creature but an in-depth examination of Ichthyosaur fossils has renewed the general confusion about what happened to the animals on display at Nevada's Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park.
Release the 'Kraken', well the Artistic Triassic Cephalopod
Polar photography exhibition by Earth Times writer Louise Murray
Posted Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:55:00 GMT by Louise MurrayThe Earth Times environmental writer and award-winning photographer Louise Murray has a new exhibition of her polar photography at the Lacock Photography Gallery in the UK from October 15th 2011 to 31st January 2012.
Polar photography exhibition by Earth Times writer Louise Murray
Jumping like a fish out of water
Posted Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:20:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongProf. Alice Gibb watched the catch jump from the net back into the water. It had jumping skills and knew what it wanted to do. Her study of feeding behaviour was abandoned and 'studies of stranding' became the new research aim. By now, she has achieved unbelievable results relevant to the (possibly frequent) evolution of land vertebrates from the fish, more than 300 million years ago.
Jumping like a fish out of water
Acrocanthosaurus atokensis dino tracks discovered in Arkansas
Posted Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:29:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongDiscovery of giant tracks from the Cretaceous in Arkansas from 120 million years ago. Acrocanthosaurus atokensis is one of the largest carnivores that ever existed. It is likely that the 60 cm x 30 cm footprint fit its profile, perfectly preserved in the desert-like Cretaceous mud.
Acrocanthosaurus atokensis dino tracks discovered in Arkansas
Largest ever butterfly map completed
Posted Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:37:00 GMT by Colin RickettsA European atlas recording the distribution of all of Europe's 441 butterfly species will be a vital tool to record how climate change is affecting these lovely creatures. The work of 272 field volunteers, say the publishers, has been vital to this grand new publication project.
Largest ever butterfly map completed
Tasmanian Devils fight hardest battle yet
Posted Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:21:00 GMT by Colin RickettsThe Tasmanian Devil, an animal with a ferocious reputation is fighting for its life against an infectious cancer that is now beyond culling control according to a new study. While culling of diseased livestock is a relatively common agricultural practice, it remains controversial where wild animals are concerned.
Tasmanian Devils fight hardest battle yet
Chick attacks highlighted in study on the Nazca booby
Posted Wed, 05 Oct 2011 07:26:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongNazca Boobies, related to other ocean travellers such as the famous wandering albatross, live in the Galapagos. Unfortunately, parents have to leave nestlings frequently to fish long-distance. On the islands, such as this booby colony on Isla Espanola, there is an intense interest by certain adults in unrelated chicks, especially when its parents are necessarily absent for long periods.
Chick attacks highlighted in study on the Nazca booby
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