Lizards Undergo Rapid Evolution After Introduction To A New Home Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Limb Loss In Lizards: Evidence For Rapid Evolution Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Small skink lizards, Lerista, demonstrate extensive changes in body shape over geologically brief periods. 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.
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Male lizards do push-ups just to get attention Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
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 "look at me" technique: They perform multiple full body, four-legged push-ups to get their fellow lizards to turn their heads.
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Study: Most lizards live on islands Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
U.S. study has confirmed what biologists have long observed -- most lizards live on islands than on the mainland.
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Fastest Evolving Creature is 'Living Dinosaur' Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
The tuatara resembles a lizard and is found only in New Zealand.
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 — at a DNA level — faster than any other animal yet examined.
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Transvestite lizard discovered Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Italian Goverment concludes Aliens caused fires Posted: 2 years ago by Proverb
A leaked Italian government report concludes "aliens testing secret weapons" 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.
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Swedish Landlord Makes Gruesome Find Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
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.
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Limbless reptiles discovered onboard an aeroplane Posted: 2 years ago by pocksucket
Filipino airport security staff discover 50 lizards, 39 cobras and 21 vipers in plastic bottles in a passenger's bag.
I went with the BBC article because they were the only one who didn't go with the obvious headline.
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Animal Crew Returns from Space Posted: 2 years ago by maxriter
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.
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Approved British exams say imaginary creatures can disprove Evolution Posted: 4 months ago by equinox
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. The course materials also claim that apartheid was a very good thing for South Africa.
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Evolution is slowing snails down Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
Natural selection is favouring snails with reduced metabolic rates, researchers in Chile have discovered.
It is the first time that evolution has been shown to select for this trait in individuals of any species.
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IOGEAR is looking for America's most cable cluttered Home Posted: 8 months ago by iamamaniac
Finally, a reward for having a messy, out of control computer desk or Home Theater setup in your home. IOGEAR is running a fantastic give away that will help you get your rat’s nest of a cable pile-up under control with their award winning prizes.
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$250k to anyone who can prove evolution Posted: 11 months ago by eastcoast1978
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.
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Scientists find missing evolutionary link using tiny fungus crystal Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Mystery of Rapid Star Birth Solved Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Child's body found at care home Posted: 2 years ago by topofall
Parts of a child's body have been found at a former children's home in Jersey.
Picture not related.
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Researchers successfully simulate photosynthesis and design a better leaf Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Can your environment change your genes? Posted: 9 months ago by 2manyusernames
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 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 can change ones genes.
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Student suspended for prank done at home Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Roving Defender of Evolution, and of Room for God Posted: 2 years ago by mutil8or
An evolutionary biologist and geneticist at the University of California, Irvine, he speaks often at universities, in churches, for social groups and elsewhere, usually in defense of the theory of evolution and against the arguments of creationism and its ideological cousin, intelligent design.
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