News tagged with natural history
Land animals, ecosystems walloped after Permian dieoff
The cataclysmic events that marked the end of the Permian Period some 252 million years ago were a watershed moment in the history of life on Earth. As much as 90 percent of ocean organisms were extinguished, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Toothed pterosaur: Tiny fossil fragment reveals giant-but-ugly-truth
New research from the Universities of Portsmouth and Leicester has identified a small fossil fragment at the Natural History Museum, London as being part of a giant pterosaur – setting a new upper limit ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Help scientists record invasion of Chinese mitten crabs
Its name might sound cuddly but the Chinese mitten crab is one of the worlds worst invasive species and scientists need help recording sightings in the UK.
Sep 27, 2011 |
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Invasive amphibians, reptiles in Florida outnumber world
Florida has the world's worst invasive amphibian and reptile problem, and a new 20-year study led by a University of Florida researcher verifies the pet trade as the No. 1 cause of the species' introductions.
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Storing vertebrates in the cloud
What Google is attempting for books, the University of California, Berkeley, plans to do for the world's vertebrate specimens: store them in "the cloud."
Aug 24, 2011 |
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'Fossil eel' squirms into the record books
A new species of eel found in the gloom of an undersea cave is a "living fossil" astonishingly similar to the first eels that swam some 200 million years ago, biologists reported on Wednesday.
Aug 17, 2011 |
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'Supergene' is key to copycat butterflies
Since Charles Darwin, biologists have pondered the mystery of "mimicry butterflies", which survive by copying the wing patterns of other butterflies that taste horrible to their predators, birds.
Aug 12, 2011 |
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'Pregnant plesiosaur' examined
A paper to be published on August 12, 2011 in Science reveals that Dr. F. Robin O'Keefe of Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. and Dr. Luis Chiappe, Director of the Natural History Museum's Dinosaur Institute, have d ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Colugos glide to save time, not energy
Gripping tightly to a tree trunk, at first sight a colugo might be mistaken for a lemur. However, when this animal leaps it launches into a graceful glide, spreading wide the enormous membrane that spans its legs and tail ...
Jul 28, 2011 |
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Dual-sex butterfly hatches at Natural History Museum
A rare half-male and half-female butterfly has emerged at the Natural History Museum's Sensational Butterflies exhibition.
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Sun to strike NY streets in magical 'Manhattanhenge'
It is dubbed "Manhattanhenge" and happens two times a year when the Sun aligns at dusk with streets in a glowing magic trick as rays of sunlight span across New York perfectly, from west to east.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 11, 2011 |
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New US exhibit probes dinosaur mysteries
Dinosaurs have captivated the public for decades, but a new US exhibit aims to show that there is still much about the giant reptiles that baffles experts and amateurs alike.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 09, 2011 |
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Darwin's personal library put online
Darwin's personal scientific library, the majority of which is held at Cambridge University Library, has been digitised in a collaborative effort involving Cambridge, the Darwin Manuscripts Project at the ...
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Scientists reveal a first in Ice Age art
Researchers from the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Florida have announced the discovery of a bone fragment, approximately 13,000 years old, in Florida with an incised image ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 21, 2011 |
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New large crab species discovered in Costa Rica
A new species of large land crab was discovered on Cocos Island in Costa Rica, a local newspaper reported on Monday.
Jun 21, 2011 |
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