Tag Archives: Biology

Furry forerunners: Jurassic arboreal, burrowing mammals unearthed

Interesting stuff, if you’re interested in biology and/or evolution. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It may not have been the most opportune time to be a furry little critter, what with all those … Continue reading

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Hands and Fins Share Common Genetic Origin

Scientific research continues to prove, time and time again, that evolution is factual and not just a fanciful suggestion by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace. Naturally, this is in conflict with religious belief that suggests, incorrectly so, that God created … Continue reading

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Shocking news: Electric eels exert remote control over prey

The wonders of nature. Evolution is such an interesting field; studying how animals and plants have adapted to the environment throughout hundreds of thousands and millions of years… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham December 4, … Continue reading

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Scientists invent new letters for the alphabet of life

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) – Scientists have taken the first steps toward writing the blueprint of life in an alphabet unknown to nature, they reported online in the journal Nature. Until now, … Continue reading

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Ancient flying reptile from China fills evolutionary gap

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham April 24, 2014  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It was the start of something big – really big. Scientists on Thursday said they have found a fossil from 163 million … Continue reading

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Scientists publish ‘navigation maps’ for human genome

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Kate Kelland  LONDON (Reuters) – A large international team of scientists has built the clearest picture yet of how human genes are regulated in the vast array of cell types … Continue reading

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Male Spiders Must Twerk — or Be Eaten

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Stephanie Pappas, Senior Writer  Miley Cyrus may have made “twerking” a household word, but male black widow spiders are the real masters of the rump-jiggling dance move. These arachnids twerk … Continue reading

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Strange Ancient Fish Had Front And Back Legs

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience Contributor The closest known relative of the ancestors of limbed animals such as humans likely evolved the foundation for rear legs even before the move to … Continue reading

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Ants Stay Clean by Squirting Antimicrobials from Their Butts

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Laura Poppick, Staff Writer December 21, 2013 2:28 PM Ants may not seem particularly germaphobic, since they live in bacteria-rich dirt and often eat decaying plants and animals. But some … Continue reading

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Does Age Bring Death? Not For All Species

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Stephanie Pappas | LiveScience.com Humans have a pretty straightforward view of aging: They’re born, they mature, they gradually become weaker and lose fertility, and eventually, they die. But in nature, … Continue reading

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Cockroaches Munched on Dinosaur Poop

Interesting stuff… TGORefer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Tanya Lewis, Staff Writer  Scientists now have an answer to a question you never knew you had: What happened to all the dinosaur dung? Cockroaches vacuumed it up, a new study … Continue reading

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Could Human Beings Be Cloned?

Interesting article… I agree that we shouldn’t be messing with science when it comes to cloning human beings; not for any religious or “moral” reasons – just because. Of course, we know that it will someday happen, if not happening … Continue reading

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Richard Dawkins: “The Likelihood of God”

I suspect that most people have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn’t quite big enough to explain everything about life. All I can say as a biologist is that the feeling disappears progressively the more you read about … Continue reading

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Frogs Surprisingly Like Humans, Genetically Speaking

Informative article for those interested in biology and evolution… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Senior Writer livescience.com African clawed frogs have more in common with humans than you might think, according to their newly sequenced … Continue reading

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Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution

I feel really bad for children whose parents are such simple-minded, ignorant and ill-informed fools that they still believe the fairy-tale Bible’s ridiculous stories (there are two of them) about “creation.” One of the reasons that some of these parents … Continue reading

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