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Coyote Size Forces Smartness

mardi 21 octobre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Environment, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Psychology

Topping out at about 20 kilograms, a coyote has to be able to hunt both smaller and bigger prey, and avoid being prey itself, a combination that selects for intelligence. Steve Mirsky... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Island Nation Sets Up Worldâ€™s First Crowdfunded Marine Protected Area

mardi 21 octobre 2014 — More Science, Society & Policy, Energy & Sustainability, Environment, Evolution, Technology, Communications, Computing

Palau raises over $50,000 to support the creation and enforcement of a Pacific Ocean no-fishing zone the size of France -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Fossils Rewrite History of Sex

lundi 20 octobre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Evolution, Archaeology & Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology

Evidence of bony organs in ancient fish suggests that they copulated, although many of their descendants stopped doing so -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Human or Hobbit?

lundi 20 octobre 2014 — Advances, More Science, Biology, Evolution, Archaeology & Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology

The arguments over an ancient skeleton just won’t die -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Lizard Stowaways Revise Principle of Ecology

lundi 20 octobre 2014 — Energy & Sustainability, Environment, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology

The movement of lizards around the Caribbean is forcing an accounting for human activity in even the most basic ecological models -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

The Starry Night Beneath the Caribbean Sea

lundi 20 octobre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Everyday Science, Environment, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology

One of the most astounding events of my life was immediately preceded by one of the scariest: I turned out my dive light in the ocean at night. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Genes Explain Even Rube Goldbergâ€“Like Homes of Many Creatures

lundi 20 octobre 2014 — Features, More Science, Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology

The homes that animals build are just as much a product of evolution as the creatures themselves -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

War Dogs: Canines of Many Talents

lundi 20 octobre 2014 — More Science, Biology, History of Science, Society & Policy, Evolution

In this adapted excerpt from a new book, the author combines her experience with military working dogs and the science of dogs’ special abilities to make a case for our war dog force -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Plant Thorns Increase When Defense Needed

samedi 18 octobre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Environment, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology

In areas with few herbivores acacia plants don't bother to churn out many of the off-putting thorns. Cynthia Graber reports -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American