Credit: Melissa Gaskill Since July 2012, I’ve been posting about a study of artificial reefs along the Texas coast. Scientists at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies in... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Seven months ago things looked pretty bleak for the Mangarahara cichlid ( Ptychochromis insolitus ). The only habitat for this rare Madagascar fish species had been destroyed and the cichlid was down... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The South American dinosaur Argentinosaurus huinculensis would have had a hard time getting around. In fact, just standing up might have been difficult for the roughly 90-ton beast. When the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A primate that lives only in wetlands? That alone makes the Alaotran gentle lemur unique. But this tiny lemur lives in incredibly limited constrained habitat, which continues to shrink around it. ... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Image courtesy of Flickr/MrTopher We all know that the male octopus uses his third right arm as a penis. (Oh, you didn’t? It’s true. Sometimes he even detaches it to give to the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
DNA is important stuff. It’s present in all living organisms on the planet (or ‘almost all’ if you wish to remain friends with virologists) and contains the information required to... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
My plan was to get something else finished for Tet Zoo before Christmas but, alas, that just wasn’t possible. So here’s this… [More] -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com