Articles in the Category: New Species
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.
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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...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Genetics, New Species, Podcast, Video on 12 17th, 2007 | 2 Comments
Glow in the dark cats
Just in time for the Holidays. Cats that glow under ultraviolet light. Researchers in South Korea have successfully inserted a fluorescent gene into cloned cats. The purpose is to show that cats can be created with genetic disorders to be better studied and to find cures to human hereditary diseases....
First video of “Mickey Mouse of the desert”
A rare rodent has just been caught on video. It looks like a mouse but with giant ears. And, it hops like a kangaroo. It lives in Mongolia and could be threatened by a common predator—the house cat.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Discoveries, New Species, Podcast, SciClips on 09 25th, 2007 | No Comments
Hobbits are real (and our 2nd cousins)
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, New Species, Podcast, SciClips on 08 28th, 2007 | No Comments
Golden Archaea
Photo courtesy of K. Knittel and A. Boetius
Life used to fit into two categories. Plant or animal. Then we got complicated. Now we have three domains for all life. Bacteria, eukaryotes (plants, people and everything in between) and archaea. Archaea looks like a bacteria but its DNA is different. Now...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biology, New Species, Podcast, SciClips on 08 8th, 2007 | No Comments
Forest Find
photo by Andy Plumptre, Wildlife Conservation Society
As more and more biologists are worried about mass extinctions, a group of researchers has just discovered a treasure trove of new plant and animal species in an unlikely place–the war-torn Congo.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Health and Medicine, Marine Science, New Species, Podcast, SciClips on 08 3rd, 2007 | No Comments
Microbial Mats
courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The International team of researchers plumbing the 2.5-mile depths of the Arctic Ocean didn’t find what they were looking for—exactly. But they didn’t come up empty-handed either.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Marine Science, New Species, Podcast, SciClips on 08 1st, 2007 | No Comments
Glass Sponges
courtesy of University of Victoria
An extraordinarily rare sea creature has just been spotted off the coast of Washington state. Believed to be extinct for 100 million years the reef-building glass sponge is thriving in the chilly Pacific, out in the open ocean.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Biology, Geology, New Species, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, Politics, SciClips on 07 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment
Soiled Again
courtesy of NSF
Washington state will not be the home to the world’s deepest underground science lab. That distinction is going to South Dakota where scientists in the not too distant future will conduct research on dark energy, earthquakes and micro organisms.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Around the Americas, New Species, Podcast, SciClips on 05 24th, 2007 | 7 Comments
Clovis Comet
Douglas Kennett
Jon Erlandson
A controversial new theory about the disappearance of Clovis man and 35 North American animal species is making waves in geology circles. Two University of Oregon anthropologists are part of a group of 26 who think a comet crashed into Earth 13,000 years ago, causing...
