Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Monday, October 10, 2011
Monday, October 03, 2011
Bank Voles are Size Queens
The secret to social dominance for bank voles appears to be the size of their genitals, according to scientists.
The link was made by researchers from Europe who were studying the small brown mammals' reproductive behaviour.
Read more here.
The link was made by researchers from Europe who were studying the small brown mammals' reproductive behaviour.
Read more here.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Earthquake felt in Toronto
And as the news seems to be it is centered in NYC, that's pretty damn far.
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Friday, August 21, 2009
Runway found for flying reptiles
O..k..sure
An ancient runway for flying reptiles called pterosaurs has been found in France, say researchers writing in a Royal Society journal.
Read more here.
An ancient runway for flying reptiles called pterosaurs has been found in France, say researchers writing in a Royal Society journal.
Read more here.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
Cretaceous and Cambrian news
The great explosion in flowering plants during the Cretaceous period is one of the great enigmas of evolution.
Charles Darwin had no explanation, calling it an 'abominable mystery'.
But now scientists think they've solved the riddle of how flowers came to dominate the conifers and ferns that preceded them.
Read more here.
Earth's 4.5-billion-year history is filled with several turning points when temperatures changed dramatically, asteroids bombarded the planet and life forms came and disappeared. But one of the biggest moments in Earth's lifetime is the Cambrian explosion of life, roughly 540 million years ago, when complex, multi-cellular life burst out all over the planet.
Read more here.
Charles Darwin had no explanation, calling it an 'abominable mystery'.
But now scientists think they've solved the riddle of how flowers came to dominate the conifers and ferns that preceded them.
Read more here.
Earth's 4.5-billion-year history is filled with several turning points when temperatures changed dramatically, asteroids bombarded the planet and life forms came and disappeared. But one of the biggest moments in Earth's lifetime is the Cambrian explosion of life, roughly 540 million years ago, when complex, multi-cellular life burst out all over the planet.
Read more here.
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Ball Lightning
As I have actually seen ball lightning, I can relate...
A 1960 study found that as many as 5% of the US population claimed to have witnessed ball lightning, while there have been over 10,000 sightings during the past few decades, with the numbers continuing to pile up year on year.
Read more here.
A 1960 study found that as many as 5% of the US population claimed to have witnessed ball lightning, while there have been over 10,000 sightings during the past few decades, with the numbers continuing to pile up year on year.
Read more here.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Mammoths may have survived in Britain until 14,000 years ago
Research which finally proves that bones found in Shropshire, England provide the most geologically recent evidence of woolly mammoths in North Western Europe publishes today in the Geological Journal. Analysis of both the bones and the surrounding environment suggests that some mammoths remained part of British wildlife long after they are conventionally believed to have become extinct.
Read more here.
Read more here.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Monday, December 22, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Orangutan attempts to hunt fish with spear
A male orangutan, clinging precariously to overhanging branches, flails the water with a pole, trying desperately to spear a passing fish.
It is the first time one has been seen using a tool to hunt.
Read more here.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
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