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• Not So Cute: Dolphin Gang-rape

  
  Scienceray — Authority: 537
  Ever since Flipper appeared on our screens we’ve known dolphins to be highly intelligent, social creatures with an advanced communication system and the tendency to help humans when in trouble. Many of us have seen them performing tricks in captivity or watched them on television displaying the same manoeuvres in ...
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• The Big & Small Of Symbiosis

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 628
  Ever wonder why the slow moving sloth has a slightly greenish hue? Ever consider the sloth at all? Well, perhaps not. Location, location, location, is the mantra for many of us in our macro world, but it is also true for the small world of algae. read more
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• Baby Kai

  
  Virginia Hughes — Authority: 124
  It’s been awhile since I’ve done a cheap Zooborns knock-off post, right? Sorry, just can’t resist… This is 3-month-old Kai, a baby hyena from the Denver Zoo . Despite their bad rap, hyenas are both intelligent and affectionate, Andrew says !
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• Hawaii turtles recovering from severe tumor disease

  
  Raising Islands--Hawai'i science and environment — Authority: 111
  The debilitating tumor disease that racked Hawaiian green sea turtle populations starting in the 1950s appears to have declined since its peak, and some individual turtles seem to be able to overcome it. Its a hopeful sign in the upbeat story of turtle recovery in the Islands. (Image: A healthy green sea ...
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• The Raven’s Cousin: The Blue Jay Bird

  
  Scienceray — Authority: 537
  Blue Jays are particularly beautiful birds, known and named for their deep blue color and strong black and white striping on their wings. They are also known for being very loud and territorial, often chasing other types of birds away from feeders so that they can claim a feeder or particularly abundant food source as ...
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• Richard Dawkins and the crappy humanoid dinosaurs that just wont die

  
  Tetrapod Zoology — Authority: 541
  Regular readers will know that Im not exactly a fan of the idea - discussed here and there in the technical (Russell & Séguin 1982, Russell 1987), popular (Hecht 2007, Socha 2008, Naish 2008) and speculative literature (McLoughlin 1984, Magee 1993) - that non-avian theropod dinosaurs might have evolved into ...
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• Study suggests dinosaurs were warm-blooded and nimble

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  A new study of their skeletons suggests dinosaurs like T rex were nimble, warm-blooded creatures Tyrannosaurus rex was an athletic, warm-blooded animal that jogged rather than lumbered around its territory, according to a new study. Researchers led by Herman Pontzer at the University of Washington, St Louis, ...
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• Animals Who Steal

  
  Scienceray — Authority: 537
  There are many nefarious characters in the animal kingdom.  They are brazen and do not beat around the bush.  They do not sneak or tippy toe and they do not worry about retribution.   Animals will steal under the cover of darkness or boldly pull a daylight robbery without giving it a second thought.  Crows steal ...
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• Is It a Spider? is It an Octopus? No, It’s an Echinoderm!!?

  
  Scienceray — Authority: 537
  For those of you who are as uninformed as I was an echinoderm is a sea creature.  Amongst it’s many talents it can attach itself to surfaces via tubes on its arms which enables it to protect itself from predators by hanging on for dear life and it also helps it to grasp food.  And most echinoderms have the ...
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• What Do You Get When You Cross A Wombat With A Rectal Exam?...

  
  Some Guy's Blog — Authority: 116
  Answer: [IMG: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U84fPuQrKzI/SvmFodi0ulI/AAAAAAAAExw/fsi1wQz_BSg/s400/wombat_wideweb__470x276,0.jpg]
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• Busting Marine Myths: Sharks DO Get Cancer!

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 628
  There are a lot of myths out there about the marine world, but by far the one that bothers me the most is the notion that sharks dont get cancer. This simply untrue statement has led to the slaughter of millions of sharks via the industry for shark cartilage pills, which are sold to desperate cancer patients under the ...
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• The Morae River

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 736
  Brynn Metheny is a freelance illustrator based in Oakland, California who loves to draw imaginary creatures. Metheny has taken this fascination with made-up animals and extended it to the point of conjuring up an entire continent, Orcura , through which flows The Morae River . The river basin has a bestiary and a ...
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• A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 106
  You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket.  Apples in June.  Watermelons in February.  Oranges in December.  Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season.  So how do we have these fruits and vegetables when it is not time for them to be picked. Most of our ...
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• Squid Fronts And Backs, Ups And Downs

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 628
  One of my favorite zoologist habits is to gesture on ones own body when describing an animals anatomy. The weirder the animal, the funnier the implicit analogy. "These worms have a ventral nerve cord," I explain, drawing a line from my collarbone to my navel. "This mollusc has gills on its dorsal surface," reaching ...
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• A new discovery in the Hawaiian web of life

  
  Raising Islands--Hawai'i science and environment — Authority: 111
  The Hawaiian islands are connected, not only geologically, but with an intricate web of life. This fact has been reestablished in the past week with the announcement of the discovery of a series of closely related moths on three islands of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands—moths that have been evolving in the ...
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• November 7, 1840 (a Saturday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 126
  On this date, the Russian founder of comparative embryology and experimental histology Aleksandr Onufriyevich Kovalevsky was born. He was the first to establish that there was a common pattern in the embryological development of all multicellular animals.Kovalevsky began by studying the lancelet, a fish-shaped sea ...
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• Hallucigenia

  
  Genetologic Research — Authority: 106
  Martin Walde AHIS , 2009 Thin walled glas bodies, filled with several different gases, are made to shine through high frequency technology. They are made to look like ancient small animals millions of years old which have been found in Kanada in 1977. S.C. Morris discovered these animals and called them ...
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• Black Cat / White Cat

  
  Genetologic Research — Authority: 106
  South Korean scientists have cloned cats that look reddish under ultraviolet light by modifying a protein gene to change their skin color. The team at Gyeongsang National University produced three Turkish Angora cats possessing altered fluorescence protein (RFP) genes. The Ministry of Science and Technology said, ...
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• A beautiful spider …

  
  Mr. Barlow's Blog — Authority: 128
  … NOT! The Peacock spider or Gliding spider ( Maratus volans ) is a species of jumping spider . The spider is only found in Australia and measures about 5mm in size.  The males have a colourful pattern on flaps that extend from their abdomen during breeding/mating.  In addition to this, they raise their ...
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• Male sabertoothed cats were pussycats compared to macho lions

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 626
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