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Free the Elephants and Orcas in Captivity [Editorial]

Such large, intelligent animals suffer when stuffed in a zoo -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Algae in Glass Cases Could Determine Fracking’s Toll

Tiny diatoms would add precision to the ongoing efforts to measure the natural gas boom’s effects on water quality -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

"Game Face" Evolved as Plea for Help

The determination on children's faces as they struggled with a difficult task was not observed in chimpanzees involved in the same study, suggesting that the expression is an evolutionary trait -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Famous Fossil Bed in China Yields Feathered and Bucktoothed Dinos, Gliding Mammals and a Pterosaur

The fossil-rich layers date from the period when dinosaurs and birds split from a common ancestor -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Hell yes: Komodo dragons!!! (again)

What with all the monitor-themed goodness around these parts lately (see links below), it seems only fitting that I provide a re-vamped, substantially updated version of this Tet Zoo ver 2 classic... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

25 Years after Exxon Valdez Spill, Sea Otters Recovered in Alaska’s Prince William Sound

It took a quarter century, but the northern sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) living in Alaska’s Prince William Sound have finally recovered from the effects of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Oil Pollution is Making Gulf Dolphins Sick

For eighty-seven days in 2010, 210 million gallons of oil from wells below the Deepwater Horizon poured into the Gulf of Mexico. Researchers announced recently that as a result, Bottlenose dolphins... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

First Americans Lived on Bering Land Bridge for Thousands of Years

mardi 4 mars 2014 — Evolution, Archaeology & Paleontology
Genetic evidence supports a theory that ancestors of Native Americans lived for 15,000 years on the Bering Land Bridge between Asia and North America until the last ice age ended -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Book Review: The Diet Fix–Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

mardi 4 mars 2014 — Society & Policy, Evolution, Health
  The Diet Fix: why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work, by Yoni Freedhoff, MD, is available March 4, 2014. It starts with a prescription for chocolate. Clearly this is not your average... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

200-Year Drought Doomed Indus Valley Civilization

A monsoon hiatus that began 4,200 years ago parallels a dry spell that led to the collapse of bronze age civilizations in Egypt, Greece and Mesopotamia -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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