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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Discoveries, Evolution, New Species, Video on 01 12th, 2012 | No Comments

Tiniest Vertebrate Hops into the Limelight

Every few years biologists struggling to understand the evolutionary constraints placed on the largest and smallest of animals happen upon — usually by accident– a new contender. But that little creature then gets replaced by the next littlest critter. The competition goes on and biologists...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Discoveries, Marine Science, New Species, Video on 11 14th, 2011 | No Comments

Dead Sea Teems with Tiny Life

It turns out the Dead Sea isn’t so dead after all. Microscopic life is thriving in the super salty environment, according to new findings by a German and Israeli team of scientists. They found new species of life in freshwater fissures in the seafloor. Fresh, bubbling water containing the ingredients...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Backyard Science, Biology, Citizen science, Discoveries, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, Math, New Species, Video on 08 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Millions of Species Yet to be Discovered

According to a new study it could take 1,200 years, 300,000 researchers and $364 billion to identify and catalog all the species on Earth. New research in the online journal PLoS Biology, a publication of the Public Library of Science uses a new way of calculating just how many plants and animals inhabit...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Discoveries, Diseases, Environment, Health and Medicine, New Species, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, Video on 08 18th, 2011 | No Comments

Yale Undergrads Find Plastic-Eating Fungus

The growing garbage problem may have a new solution–fungus that eats plastic. For years mounting mounds of plastic have been choking landfills and polluting the ocean. Now an annual undergraduate trip to the rain forest may have found a solution to the plastic problem. Unleashing creativity in...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Discoveries, Marine Science, New Species, Video on 07 12th, 2011 | No Comments

Science Prospectors Find 300 New Species

Biologists from the California Academy of Sciences and its counterpart in the Philippines have found over 300 new species of animal life, both on land and in the sea. Ranging from a starfish that only eats sunken driftwood to an inflatable shark, scientists say that over 90% of the world species have...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, New Species, Oceanography, Plants, Video on 06 27th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Northwest Passage Opens for Whales, Plankton Not Just People

This video from May 2010 tells the tale of a gray whale lost, half a world away from home. Biologists immediately thought it was a hoax but after studying the 43-foot whale more closely they discovered that it must have gotten off it’s north-south Pacific Ocean migration track thanks to an ice-free...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biology, Discoveries, Diseases, Earthquake, Environment, Genomics, Geology, Health and Medicine, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, New Species, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Space on 12 31st, 2010 | No Comments

2010 Science Roundup

On the last day of 2010, the final day of the last year in the first decade of the 21st Century, we bid farewell to another year. Let’s take a look back over the last 12 months through the eyes of science. First, physicist Dr. Michio Kaku looks back over the natural disasters that rocked the world...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Astrobiology, Biology, New Species, Physiology, Video on 12 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

NASA Discovers New Life

In Mono Lake, California, NASA says that a form of life, never before found on Earth, is thriving. This potato-shaped microbe is not proof of aliens among us but it is a big deal for scientists. NASA’s announcement on Thursday of radical new bacteria that survive by incorporating arsenic instead...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Marine Science, New Species, Oceanography, Video on 07 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Marine Biologists Find New Species

Marine biologists believe they have discovered several new species of underwater creatures, including sponges, corals and sea stars

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biology, Climate Change, Ecology, Endangered Species, New Species, SciClips on 10 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Tiny Frog Now Big Hawaiian Pest

A little green frog is causing big problems across Hawaii, where the coqui has become the latest invasive species to get a strong foothold. But Hawaii may be the only place experiencing a surging frog population. Around the world, frogs are dying in droves from a fungus called a chytrid. What can we...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Discoveries, Geology, New Species, Video on 10 6th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Ardi, the Oldest Hominid Found in Ethiopia

Last week, after 17 years of secrecy, scientists announced they had found the oldest example of the human lineage. Her name is Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus, and she is a 4.4 million year old fossil. Ardi was found in the famous Rift Valley of Ethiopia, where other fossils, like Lucy were discovered....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Bioethics, Biofuels, Biology, Diseases, Featured Articles, Genomics, Greenovation, Health and Medicine, New Species, SciClips on 09 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Synthetic Biology Takes on a Life of Its Own

A Yeast Cell with Synthetic Genes, courtesy of Dr. Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School Life is often stranger than fiction. But the direction that biology is heading, synthetic life could be stranger than science fiction. The emerging field of synthetic biology is moving closer and closer to creating...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biochemistry, Biology, Diseases, Genomics, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, New Species, Oceanography, SciClips on 09 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Discovering an Ocean of Medicine

Amy Wright Collects Samples While Diving, courtesy of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University Cures to the most mundane and deadly illnesses have been found deep in the jungles, high in the mountains and hidden in the rainforests. But until recently not many scientists were...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Featured Articles, Marine Science, New Species, Video on 08 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Endangered Deep Sea Coral May Save Lives

Watch the video Deep Sea Adventure In Caribbean Coral Reefs. Deep sea coral reefs found just several decades ago off the United States’ southeastern coast hold promise for the discoveries of new species and cures for cancer and other diseases. But the reefs may face danger from energy exploration–whether...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Featured Articles, New Species, SciClips, Video on 05 26th, 2009 | No Comments

On the Origin of the Specious (Discovery)

A new fossil in the ever-growing list of incremental species that outline the history of human evolution may not be the missing link after all. A week after Ida’s debut on the paleontological scene, scientists are taking a closer look at her place in our phylogenetic map. A new documentary on...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Biology, Endangered Species, New Species, SciClips on 11 25th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Trailing Tarsiers

Pygmy Tarsier, Sept. 2008, courtesy of Sharon Gursky-Doyen, Texas A&M. They look like the animated robots, called Furbys, from the 1990s. And, they could be mistaken for the fictional gremlins. But pygmy tarsiers are real. And, much to the surprise of many scientists, they are not extinct. They...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Geology, Marine Science, New Species, SciClips on 07 25th, 2008 | No Comments

Discoveries in the Deep Biosphere

Mystery jellyfish at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, courtesy of the Mareano Program The deep sea is about as understood and explored as outer space. And, it is home to alien lifeforms that look otherworldly. An international research team is sailing back from an expedition to the bottom...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Marine Science, New Species on 04 14th, 2008 | No Comments

Name a Sea Creature

Orange, speckled nudibranch, courtesy of Scripps Institution of Oceanogrpahy, UCSD How would you like to see a sea creature with your name? The Scripps Oceanographic Institute is allowing donors to name some newly discovered ocean animals and fish. If the price is right, a sea slug could get your...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Marine Science, New Species, SciClips on 04 3rd, 2008 | 1 Comment

New Fish Angles for Recognition

zebrastripe-frogfish.jpg A new family of anglerfish might be added to the history books. The new species of frog fish, as they are commonly known, is found around Indonesian coral reefs. It looks like something you’d see in the mind of glass artist Dale Chihuly. With its flat face and wrinkled...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biofuels, Environment, Ethanol, Genomics, Marine Science, New Species, SciClips on 03 31st, 2008 | 1 Comment

Talking Trash About Biofuel

Steven Hutcheson, professor of cell biology and molecular genetics and president and CEO of Zymetis Inc. (right), and Ben Woodard, (left), director of the UMd Mtech Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility. A super synthesizing microbe is turning trash into gold. Or at least sugar which can be refined into biofuel....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, New Species, Video on 02 19th, 2008 | No Comments

New Antarctic Creatures Caught on Video

A census of life at the bottom of Southern Ocean near Antarctica is revealing odd creatures — ranging from new fish, glass-like sea creatures called tunicates and giant sea spiders. After a recent 20-day collection trip, scientists announced that 25% of the animals they found were new to science.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in New Species, Podcast, SciClips, SciLebs on 01 30th, 2008 | No Comments

The Beetle Namer

Image courtesy of Arizona State University/Artist: Charles J. Kazilek. Dr. Quentin Wheeler is legitimately the bug guy at Arizona State University but he has become famous for his clever naming of the insects rather than for his discoveries. The Beetle Namer [ 2:25 ]

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, New Species, SciClips, Video on 01 3rd, 2008 | 1 Comment

New animals found in Indonesia

Scientists in Indonesia have discovered a giant rat and a tiny possum. The rat is about five times the size of a normal city rat and the possum is now among the world’s smallest marsupials. This is the first time either animal has been seen. Biologists believe more new species are left to be found...

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