The oldest-known animal eggs and embryos, whose first pictures made the cover of Nature in 1998, were so small they looked like bugs � which, it now appears, they may have been. (…)
Entries from December 2006
Oldest-known animal eggs and embryos may have been bacteria
December 21st, 2006 · No Comments
Tags: General
Virgin Birth of the reptile kind - Komodo dragon reproduce without mating
December 21st, 2006 · 5 Comments
A Komodo dragon has laid fertile eggs that hatched into male baby lizards at Chester Zoo in England. (…)
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Wolves inbreeding negative effects are less than expected
December 21st, 2006 · No Comments
Increasing levels of inbreeding is a threat against the viabi lity of the Scandinavian wolf population. (…)
Tags: General · Natural Selection
Evolution vs religion in the news again
December 20th, 2006 · 1 Comment
School Board Ends Evolution Warning Drive
Georgia School Abandons Defense Of Cautionary Stickers On Science Books
(AP) A school board in suburban Atlanta has given up on its years-long defense of placing stickers critical of the theory of evolution on high school science books. (…)
Tags: General · Science and Religion
Carps change function of kidney under changing environment
December 20th, 2006 · No Comments
The naked carp in Lake Qinghai of China have been adjusting their physiology to cope with increasing salinity of the water which had been depleting. (…)
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