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• Startled Snake Spits Out New Chameleon Species!

  
  Green Options — Authority: 149
  A snake in Tanzania was enjoying a leisurely bite to eat, when a scientist walked nearby.  The startled twig snake spit out the undigested meal and sped off, leaving the dead lizard at the feet of Dr. Andrew R. Marshall , a scientist from the University of York’s Environment Department.  Read more of this ...
  2 weeks ago

• Have we still forgotten Planicoxa?

  
  why I hate theropods — Authority: 406
  Six years ago, I wrote a post on the Dinosaur Mailing List discussing the phylogenetic position of Planicoxa , an iguanodontian dinosaur ( link ). Planicoxa was described in a chapter in Mesozoic Vertebrate Life , but has since remained neglected in subsequent works on iguanodontians. To my knowledge, it has never ...
  2 weeks ago

• More Human Evolution Diagrams

  
  A Three-Pound Monkey Brain — Authority: 106
  Im nearing the end of work on a review of the case for human evolution. Ive uploaded some of the diagrams to my Flickr account before. Some of these were just updated and some new ones were added: see The Case for Human Evolution (Flickr set) . This is probably my favorite of the lot, showing the congruence between ...
  3 weeks ago

• Probiotics, Prebiotics, Gut Microbiota, and Obesity

  
  Bariatric Times — Authority: 109
  by Margaret Furtado, MS, RD, LDN Bariatric Times . 2009;6(11):27–30. INTRODUCTION Probiotics are nonpathogenic live microorganisms that are believed to confer health benefits to the host when ingested. Researchers have suggested weight loss and/or antiobesity effects are among these benefits. Prebiotics are ...
  3 weeks ago

• More dinosaur than we thought

  
  Archetype — Authority: 413
  Familiar to many, you can know how old is a tree and how fast it has grown by counting the number of rings in a cross section . Well, you can do the same with the long bones of vertebrates. Now Gregory M. Erickson and co-workers published a paper in which they did just that to a specimen of one of the most famous ...
  5 weeks ago

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