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How Fake Fossils Pervert Paleontology [Excerpt]

samedi 15 novembre 2014 — More Science, History of Science, Society & Policy, Evolution, Archaeology & Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Evolutionary Biology

A nebulous trade in forged and illegal fossils is an ever-growing headache for paleontologists -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Call of the Orangutan: Injuries and Their Limitations

samedi 15 novembre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Energy & Sustainability, Environment, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology

This last month has been extremely stressful for all of us at Sikundur research station in North Sumatra while we've been following two of our favorite orangutans, Suci and her 3-year-old infant... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Doctors Without Borders Fight on Ebola's Front Lines

vendredi 14 novembre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Society & Policy, Environment, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Health, Infectious Diseases, Pharmaceuticals

Scientific American health and medicine correspondent Dina Fine Maron talks with Armand Sprecher of Doctors Without Borders, who has fought Ebola in Guinea and Liberia. And Steve talks Ebola with... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Doctors Without Borders Fight On Ebola's Front Lines

vendredi 14 novembre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Society & Policy, Environment, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Health, Infectious Diseases, Pharmaceuticals

Scientific American

Animal Armaments: Evolution Girds Species for Battle [Slide Show]

jeudi 13 novembre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology

For predation, defense or dominance, evolution has weaponized bodily features on many species to give them the upper horn, tusk, tooth or pincer in the fight for survival -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Critically Endangered Gecko Discovered in Madagascar

jeudi 13 novembre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Society & Policy, Energy & Sustainability, Environment, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology

The island of Madagascar is home to a pretty amazing and diverse collection of geckos, with nearly 70 species from 10 different genera. Now you can add one more species to the list: Paroedura... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

That Comet? That's You, 4.5 Billion Years Ago

jeudi 13 novembre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Space, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Extraterrestrial Life, Galaxies, Space Exploration

As the European Space Agency’s Philae lander bounced and settled onto the surface of comet 67P/C-G’s crumbly nucleus it wasn’t just space exploration, it was time travel. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

`Proto-Ichthyosaur' Sheds Light on Fish-Lizard Beginnings

mercredi 12 novembre 2014 — Evolution, Archaeology & Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Evolutionary Biology

Regular readers will know that I have a major interest in ichthyosaurs, the so-called fish-lizards of the Mesozoic (see links below). As you'll know if you keep your finger on the pulse of Mesozoic... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

How Zooplankton Bust a Move

mercredi 12 novembre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Physics, Environment, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology

Though plankton drift with the ocean currents, that doesn’t mean they’re incapable of any movement. Many of them can move to find food or mates, and they do so in some surprising and... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Mind-Blowing Fossil Preserves Tiny Horse Carrying Unborn Foal

mardi 11 novembre 2014 — Evolution, Archaeology & Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology

BERLIN: The former oil shale mining site of Messel, near Frankfurt, Germany, is well known for its spectacular fossils of organisms that lived between 47 million and 48 million years ago, during the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American