<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Lizards Undergo Rapid Evolution After Introduction To A New Home : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>Lizards Undergo Rapid Evolution After Introduction To A New Home : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-11-29T07:42:54+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Lizards Undergo Rapid Evolution After Introduction To A New Home]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/58779/1/" /><id>58779</id><summary><![CDATA[Lizards Undergo Rapid Evolution After Introduction To A New Home]]></summary><issued>2008-04-18T00:09:30+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-18T00:09:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In 1971, biologists moved five adult pairs of Italian wall lizards from their home island of Pod Kopiste, in the South Adriatic Sea, to the neighboring island of Pod Mrcaru. Now, an international team of researchers has shown that introducing these small, green-backed lizards, Podarcis sicula, to a new environment caused them to undergo rapid and large-scale evolutionary changes.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Research published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology shows that several species of these skinks have rapidly evolved an elongate, limbless body form.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Male lizards do push-ups just to get attention]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/82897/1/" /><id>82897</id><summary><![CDATA[Male lizards do push-ups just to get attention]]></summary><issued>2008-11-26T08:53:23+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-26T08:53:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Grabbing someone's attention from a distance is a challenge, particularly under noisy conditions but, according to a new study, anole lizards have devised a successful &quot;look at me&quot; technique: They perform multiple full body, four-legged push-ups to get their fellow lizards to turn their heads.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Study: Most lizards live on islands]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18749/1/" /><id>18749</id><summary><![CDATA[Study: Most lizards live on islands]]></summary><issued>2007-05-02T09:44:23+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-02T09:44:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[U.S. study has confirmed what biologists have long observed -- most lizards live on islands than on the mainland.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Fastest Evolving Creature is 'Living Dinosaur']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/55863/1/" /><id>55863</id><summary><![CDATA[Fastest Evolving Creature is 'Living Dinosaur']]></summary><issued>2008-03-26T16:24:58+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-26T16:24:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The tuatara resembles a lizard and is found only in New Zealand.<br/><br/>To make the estimate of evolutionary speed, researchers recovered DNA sequences from the bones of ancient tuatara. The team found that although tuatara have remained largely unchanged physically over very long periods of evolution, they are evolving &#8212; at a DNA level &#8212; faster than any other animal yet examined.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Swedish Landlord Makes Gruesome Find]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/46804/1/" /><id>46804</id><summary><![CDATA[Swedish Landlord Makes Gruesome Find]]></summary><issued>2008-01-10T22:38:02+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-10T22:38:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Swedish landlord inspecting a recently vacated cottage got an ugly surprise when she found dozens of dead or ailing snakes, mice, rats and lizards locked up in cages inside the house.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Limbless reptiles discovered onboard an aeroplane]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31161/1/" /><id>31161</id><summary><![CDATA[Limbless reptiles discovered onboard an aeroplane]]></summary><issued>2007-08-11T19:05:03+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-11T19:05:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Filipino airport security staff discover 50 lizards, 39 cobras and 21 vipers in plastic bottles in a passenger's bag.<br/><br/>I went with the BBC article because they were the only one who didn't go with the obvious headline.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Transvestite lizard discovered]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/97406/1/" /><id>97406</id><summary><![CDATA[Transvestite lizard discovered]]></summary><issued>2009-03-03T08:30:56+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-03T08:30:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Young male lizards in South Africa imitate females to fool aggressive older males into leaving them alone, in an example of transvestism in the natural world, researchers have found.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Italian Goverment concludes Aliens caused fires]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39945/1/" /><id>39945</id><summary><![CDATA[Italian Goverment concludes Aliens caused fires]]></summary><issued>2007-10-29T17:58:02+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-29T17:58:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A leaked Italian government report concludes &quot;aliens testing secret weapons&quot; are responsible for a series of strange, spontaneous fires that erupted from appliances and other home furnishings all over the village of Canneto di Caronia three years ago.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Animal Crew Returns from Space]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36758/1/" /><id>36758</id><summary><![CDATA[Animal Crew Returns from Space]]></summary><issued>2007-09-26T07:55:56+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-26T07:55:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Foton-M3 satellite, with mice, butterflies, lizards, snails and cockroaches on board, will land in the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after 12 days of experiments, including the one in which scientists cut off some body parts of 20 lizards to find out how gravity and ionic radiation can affect the ability of the tissue to regenerate.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Evolution is slowing snails down]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/113421/1/" /><id>113421</id><summary><![CDATA[Evolution is slowing snails down]]></summary><issued>2009-05-11T10:09:11+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-11T10:09:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Natural selection is favouring snails with reduced metabolic rates, researchers in Chile have discovered.<br/><br/>It is the first time that evolution has been shown to select for this trait in individuals of any species.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[$250k to anyone who can prove evolution]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/88234/1/" /><id>88234</id><summary><![CDATA[$250k to anyone who can prove evolution]]></summary><issued>2009-01-07T22:20:49+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-07T22:20:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A standing offer of $250,000 to anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution.* My $250,000 offer demonstrates that the hypothesis of evolution is nothing more than a religious belief.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Approved British exams say imaginary creatures can disprove Evolution]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/130841/1/" /><id>130841</id><summary><![CDATA[Approved British exams say imaginary creatures can disprove Evolution]]></summary><issued>2009-08-15T21:01:27+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-15T21:01:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Exams for which pupils are expected to believe that the Loch Ness monster disproves evolution have been deemed equivalent to international A-levels by a UK government agency. 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IOGEAR is running a fantastic give away that will help you get your rat&#8217;s nest of a cable pile-up under control with their award winning prizes.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mystery of Rapid Star Birth Solved ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/82468/1/" /><id>82468</id><summary><![CDATA[Mystery of Rapid Star Birth Solved ]]></summary><issued>2008-11-21T06:54:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-21T06:54:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped astronomers solve a longstanding mystery as to why a small, nearby, isolated galaxy is pumping out new stars faster than any galaxy in our local neighborhood.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Researchers successfully simulate photosynthesis and design a better leaf]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/41434/1/" /><id>41434</id><summary><![CDATA[Researchers successfully simulate photosynthesis and design a better leaf]]></summary><issued>2007-11-12T09:21:03+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-12T09:21:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[University of Illinois researchers have built a better plant, one that produces more leaves and fruit without needing extra fertilizer. The researchers accomplished the feat using a computer model that mimics the process of evolution. Theirs is the first model to simulate every step of the photosynthetic process.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Can your environment change your genes?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/97197/1/" /><id>97197</id><summary><![CDATA[Can your environment change your genes?]]></summary><issued>2009-03-02T10:17:47+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-02T10:17:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jean-Baptiste Lamarck</a> was a brilliant man who was an early proponent of evolution. He is infamous for his belief that giraffes stretching their necks made their necks longer which was passed on to their children. Although this was proven false, perhaps environment <i>can</i> change ones genes.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Child's body found at care home]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51803/1/" /><id>51803</id><summary><![CDATA[Child's body found at care home]]></summary><issued>2008-02-23T13:33:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-23T13:33:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Parts of a child's body have been found at a former children's home in Jersey.<br/><br/>Picture not related.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Scientists find missing evolutionary link using tiny fungus crystal]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/45896/1/" /><id>45896</id><summary><![CDATA[Scientists find missing evolutionary link using tiny fungus crystal]]></summary><issued>2008-01-03T10:06:23+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-03T10:06:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The crystal structure of a molecule from a primitive fungus has served as a time machine to show researchers more about the evolution of life from the simple to the complex. By studying the three-dimensional version of the fungus protein bound to an RNA molecule, scientists have been able to visualize how life progressed from an early self-replicating molecule that also performed chemical reactions to one in which proteins assumed some of the work.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Student suspended for prank done at home]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44021/1/" /><id>44021</id><summary><![CDATA[Student suspended for prank done at home]]></summary><issued>2007-12-12T20:00:03+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-12T20:00:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The father of a Texas girl suspended from school for taking a cell phone photo of a fellow cheerleader's bare back at home on a weekend isn't happy. Michael Bailey's 13-year-old eighth grade daughter was suspended Nov. 6 after the photo was sent to several male classmates in Alvin, south of Houston.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[So That's Why Chickens Have Combs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/81680/1/" /><id>81680</id><summary><![CDATA[So That's Why Chickens Have Combs]]></summary><issued>2008-11-12T08:25:00+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-12T08:25:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The origins of hair date back 310 million to 330 million years ago to the last common ancestor of mammals, birds and lizards, according to a new study that discovered genes associated with hair production in living green anole lizards and chickens.]]></content></entry></feed>