Five funky and 5 fun facts about fishes
Posted on January 25, 2012
A selection of fascinating facts about fishes from the new book "Fishes: The Animal Answer Guide" [...more]
Posted on January 25, 2012
A selection of fascinating facts about fishes from the new book "Fishes: The Animal Answer Guide" [...more]
Posted on January 24, 2012
An excavation at a site in South Africa has unearthed the 190-million-year-old dinosaur nesting site of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus–revealing significant clues about the evolution of complex reproductive behavior in early dinosaurs. [...more]
Older forests with just the right fungi may be secret to saving these vulnerable plants. [...more]
People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn 2,000 years earlier than previously reported and before ceramic pottery was used there, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [...more]
Scientists studying genetic variation and gene flow in a population of tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) in California’s Mojave Desert, were surprised recently to discover that two roads built in the desert in the 1970s had a noticeable impact on the population’s genetic structure. [...more]
A mineral dealer from Dallas recently donated this fine specimen of Chinese cinnabar–the common ore of mercury–to the Department of Mineral Sciences of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. This twinned crystal is approximately 3 centimeters across. The specimen was donated to replace one that was damaged during the Aug. 23, 2011 earthquake. (Photo by Jeff Scovil)