News tagged with rare specimen

BBC top 10 new species of decade includes stick-insect

A spectacular stick-insect, a rare specimen of which is looked after at the Natural History Museum, is in a top 10 new species of the decade list.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fossil fish shows oldest live birth

(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.

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created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0