Zoology

Connelly And Bettany Are Origin Of The Species

Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | yesterday

They've evolved from co-stars to spouses to co-stars again.

• Connelly and Bettany to star in Darwin biopic - Reuters UK
• Newsbites: The docs and biopics edition! - FilmChat
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100 Species Challenge

Here in the Bonny Glen (Free subscription) | yesterday

New entries in our 100 Species Challenge: Lily of the Nile and pelargonium.

Endangered monkey species doubles population in China

Thaindian News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Guiyang (China), Sep 6 (Xinhua) The number of wild snub-nosed monkeys, an endangered species found only in China’s southwestern Guizhou province, has more than doubled to around 850 over the past three decades, officials said. The monkey, the rarest among the three species of golden monkeys found in China, mainly lives in the 419-sq-km mountainous [...]

GGNRA Endangered Species Big Year Presidio Expedition

Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday

Baker Beach North Parking Lot http://maps.google.com/maps'f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Battery+Chamberlin+Rd,+San+Francisco,+CA+94129&sll=37.798933,-122.474213&sspn=0.029231,0.058022&ie=UTF8&ll=37.79873,-122.478762&spn=0.029231,0.058022&z=14

Endangered Species Demonstrators Cited by Highway Patrol

Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

Two environmental rights advocated were ordered to take down their freeway sign today, a sign that was calling attention to SMART's (Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit's) harmful impact on endangered species in Gallinas Creek.

Prions jump species barrier

Darwiniana (Free subscription) | yesterday

gnxp Test tube experiments may help identify the most hazardous prion proteins. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080904/full/news.2008.1080.html

Bringing extinct species back from the dead

CNN (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

The word "extinct" sounds pretty final -- and as a concept, it certainly should be. But the normal harbinger of bad news - the "Red List" issued by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) - will actually reveal some good news when it is published in October, for one species at least.

Volunteer parents an endangered species

Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

The Parent Teacher Association is off to a slow start this year at Houston High School.

Species will be green only in summertime

The Eagle (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

Dear Neil: I was successful in bringing my bougainvillea through last winter. It's full and healthy-looking, but no colorful leaves -- only green. What can I do ...

Endangered Monkey Population Doubles in Three Decades in SW China

China Digital Times (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

From Xinhua: The number of wild gray snub-nosed monkeys, an endangered species only found in southwest China's Guizhou Province, has more than doubled to about 850 over the past three decades. The monkey, the rarest among the three species of golden monkeys in China's Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Hubei provinces, mainly lives ...

Creating New Infectious Diseases

thomasfortenberry.net (Free subscription) | yesterday

Great, now we’re able to better bioengineer bioweapons. Cell informs us: Infectious, test tube-produced prions can jump the ’species barrier’ Researchers have shown that they can create entirely new strains of infectious proteins known as prions in the laboratory by simply mixing infectious prions from one species with the normal prion proteins of another species. The findings are [...]

• Infectious, Test Tube-produced Prions Can Jump The 'Species Barrier' - Science Daily
• Infectious, test tube-produced prions can jump the 'species barrier' - Eurekalert
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My Quest: To Visit all the Harry Potter Film Sites in London, Part 1

Living the Scientific Life (Scienti (Free subscription) | yesterday

tags: London England , Harry Potter film sites London , Harry Potter , photography , photoessay Classic telephone box in London. These are an endangered species. Telephone boxes appear throughout the Harry Potter films, particularly as an entrance into the Ministry of Magic in the fifth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix . When the telephone in the box is dialed (62442, the...

The katydid of irony

The annotated budak (Free subscription) | yesterday

Something's amiss when folks in cooler climes can count over 500 species in their 'little' yard while my duck is lucky to see two miserable spiders a year in this tropical abode. So when the cat 'brought' to this katydid to my attention one evening, it got a full hour's...

Astronomer Makes Super-Human in Spore

http://videogameplayerz.net/rss.xml (Free subscription) | yesterday

Being that humans are on the top of the food chain you would think we have evolved into the perfect species on this big blue globe. Not so says astronomer Frank Drake, creator of the famous Drake’s Equation (used to quantify the existence of extraterrestrials) who was at a launch event for Spore last night at a not-yet-opened science museum in San Francisco. The 78 year old astronomer joked (we hope)...

Misleading Statements Coming From All Sides

Donklephant (Free subscription) | yesterday

While Justin is keeping us abreast of the lies, misstatements and fudges coming from Republicans, I thought I’d take a moment for a little site balancing and remind everyone that obfuscation is congenital not to any particular party but to the entire species known as politicians. Unsurprisingly, a scan of PoliFact reveals some recent dodges, [...]

Leslie Tripathy of Orissa issue

william duke | 01/06/2008

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 All you need is a chance to display yourself to the world'-Princess Leslie of Orissa After she was stalked by a deadly psycho,whose life's only obsession was to marry Leslie the good girl who is 'one-in-a-billion-kind-rare species', Leslie's efforts to redefine herself and her life took on an edge of urgency. She had given up her patronage of most of the charities she once represented....

An Attenborough style take on the Labour Chimps

news rage uk | 09/05/2008

Watching the political landscape at the moment is a bit like watching a wildlife program. I could probably use any species of animals that have been striped of their privacy for our entertainment over the decades but for the purposes of this article, I am going to use the politicians themselves on location because I think the halls of Westminster have become just as dangerous as the Serengeti plains...