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Reconstructing Cambrian Food Webs

Category: Ecology

A walk-through of a recent PLoS paper that models food webs from the remains in the Burgess and Chengjiang Shales.

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A Link Between Dugongs and Elephants

Category: Animals

A comparison of carbon/oxygen isotope ratios from the tooth enamel of two early proboscideans, Moeritherium and Barytherium to other animals of the same era (circa 37 mya) revealed to researchers the possibility of a ancient, semi-aquatic animal, linking the speculated...

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Birdfeeders Disrupt Ecology, Natural Selection

Category: Animals

It has been claimed in the past that birdfeeders were bad for the environment, and now a couple of researchers are looking into published literature on whether or not birdfeeders significantly disrupt the ecology and future evolution of birds. The...

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Before Predation, the Sex Was Great

Category: Ecology

There's a neat study being published today in Science discussing the reproductive potential of ecological systems 570 mya. The findings are based on the new discovery of a "tube-like" organism (so say the PRs) called Funisia dorothea, which apparently was...

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How to Take an Interesting Paper and Make It a Snore Fest

Category: Journalism

It's quite simple really. Just leave out the details: The near extinction of the western barred bandicoot has led to the identification of a novel virus exhibiting characteristics of two ancient virus families. The western barred bandicoot (WWB), an Australian...

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Finding Little Cubists the Perfect Gift

Category: Art

Discussing art and evolution as they're taught to children.

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The Evolution of a Holiday Appetizer: The Blue Crab

Category: Animals

The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science recently published an article discussing some progress in blue crab research and conservation, and mentioned a related report: The Chesapeake Bay blue crab population has stabilized, but at historically low levels according...

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WoW Taxonomy II: Ailurus

Category: Animals

How many Ailuruses are there in the World of Warcraft?

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A Short History of the Eastern Hemlock II

Category: Ecology

In Part I we looked at the eastern hemlock's northwestern progression after the last ice age, and the frequency of the hemlock along a slope-oriented moisture gradient: The distribution pictured above is almost exactly the case in the Laurel Hill...

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I Love This Stuff

Category: Ecology

Catch up on all of your fall foliage science with Carl at The Loom. He has all the links you need, even one to his interview on ABC News....

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