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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