American Museum of Natural History
Microscopic morphology adds to the scorpion family tree
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 ...
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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African thicket rat malaria linked to virulent human form
Even though the most deadly form of malaria for humans, Plasmodium falciparum, has been linked to malaria found in chimpanzees, this group has been fairly isolated on the malarial family tree—until now. A ...
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Dec 22, 2008 |
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Cookie cutter in the sky: Seeing the shape of material around black holes for first time
Black holes can now be thought of as donut holes. The shape of material around black holes has been seen for the first time: an analysis of over 200 active galactic nuclei—cores of galaxies powered by disks ...
Dec 16, 2008 |
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Goose eggs may help polar bears weather climate change
As polar bears adapt to a warming Arctic—a frozen seascape that cleaves earlier each spring—they may find relief in an unlikely source: snow goose eggs. New calculations show that changes in the timing of ...
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Dec 15, 2008 |
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Dwarf crocodiles split into three species
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 ...
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Dec 12, 2008 |
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Death by hyperdisease: DNA detective work explains the extinction of Christmas Island's native rats
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. ...
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Nov 05, 2008 |
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Revealing the evolutionary history of threatened sea turtles
It's confirmed: Even though flatback turtles dine on fish, shrimp, and mollusks, they are closely related to primarily herbivorous green sea turtles. New genetic research carried out by Eugenia Naro-Maciel, ...
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Oct 15, 2008 |
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Luck gave dinosaurs their edge
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 ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 11, 2008 |
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Sky islands: metaphor or misnomer?
The term "sky islands" sounds intriguing, but it may be more lyrical than useful when discussing mammal distributions, according to new research from Eric Waltari of the Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics at the American ...
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Aug 13, 2008 |
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Big brains arose twice in higher primates
After taking a fresh look at an old fossil, John Flynn, Frick Curator of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, and colleagues determined that the brains of the ancestors of modern Neotropical ...
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Jul 09, 2008 |
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Bee species outnumber mammals and birds combined
Scientists have discovered that there are more bee species than previously thought. In the first global accounting of bee species in over a hundred years, John S. Ascher, a research scientist in the Division of Invertebrate ...
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Jun 11, 2008 |
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Climate change hastens extinction in Madagascar's reptiles and amphibians
New research from the American Museum of Natural History provides the first detailed study showing that global warming forces species to move up tropical mountains as their habitats shift upward. Christopher Raxworthy, Associate ...
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Jun 09, 2008 |
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