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Biologist Names ‘Neil Young’ Spider Posted: 6 months ago by mutil8or
An East Carolina University biologist has brought his admiration of Neil Young to a whole new class.
Or species, to be exact.
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Mass. Biologist Dies Of Plague Posted: 1 year ago by dollyllama
A wildlife biologist at Grand Canyon National Park most likely died from the plague contracted while performing a necropsy on a mountain lion that later tested positive for the disease, officials said Friday.
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Plague Emerges in Grand Canyon,Kills Biologist Posted: 4 weeks ago by Nateebiinature
One day last October, Eric York lugged the carcass of an adult mountain lion from his truck and laid it carefully on a tarp on the floor of his garage...
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New type of peccary discovered in Amazon region Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Dutch biologist Marc van Roosmalen has discovered a new species of peccary in the basin of the Rio Aripuanã in the south-eastern Amazon region.
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Christian biologist fired for beliefs, suit says Posted: 11 months ago by hoimaha
if your studying biology as profession in life, it seems that you must accept evolution otherwise your religion will be a conflict of interest to your job.
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Florida Biologist Rescues Drowning Bear Posted: 5 months ago by 2manyusernames
A 375-pound male black bear was saved from a drowning death Saturday after a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologist pulled the tranquilized animal from the Gulf of Mexico (about 40 miles from Tallahassee)
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Mystery Creature In Utah Baffles Biologists Posted: 7 months ago by mutil8or
A fanged creature found in Utah after some ice melted on a pond has stumped biologists trying to determine what it is.
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Biologists on the Verge of Creating New Form of Life Posted: 2 months ago by willster09
A team of biologists and chemists is closing in on bringing non-living matter to life.
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The Truth About Sharks Posted: 1 year ago by Orato
Watching this year's 20th anniversary of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, world-renowned marine biologist and shark researcher Samuel Gruber was shocked to see every myth about the shark's violent nature come to life on screen. Pandering the lowest common denominator, the Discovery Channel's coverage of the majestic shark has failed to educate the public on the shark's true nature and fallen prey to the public's need to paint the sleek species as blood-thirsty, brainless killers, he says. Here, he tells us way he fell in love with sharks - and why we should, too. Check it out at
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Lots of Animals Learn, but Smarter Isn’t Better Posted: 7 months ago by DerAlt
“Why are humans so smart?” is a question that fascinates scientists. Tadeusz Kawecki, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Fribourg, likes to turn around the question.
“If it’s so great to be smart,” Dr. Kawecki asks, “why have most animals remained dumb?”
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A Journey to Baseball’s Alternate Universe Posted: 8 months ago by Bornbad
The sport’s most mythic achievement is Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, a feat that has never come even close to being matched. Fans and scientists alike, including Edward M. Purcell, a Nobel laureate in physics, and Stephen Jay Gould, the evolutionary biologist, have described the streak as well-nigh impossible.
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New Species Of Frog Discovered: Smallest Indian Land Vertebrate Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
The India’s smallest land vertebrate, a 10-millimeter frog, has been discovered from the Western Ghats of Kerala by Delhi University Systematics Biologist, S D Biju and his colleagues.
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Darwin Was Right: Natural Selection Speeds Up Speciation Posted: 8 months ago by mutil8or
In the first experiment of its kind conducted in nature, a University of British Columbia evolutionary biologist has come up with strong evidence for one of Charles Darwin's cornerstone ideas -- adaptation to the environment accelerates the creation of new species.
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What's wrong with science as religion? Posted: 4 months ago by siennablue
Piercing a Communion wafer with a nail and throwing it in the garbage, as one crusading biologist recently did, does science no favors.
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Nobel-winning biologist apologizes for remarks about blacks Posted: 1 year ago by proverb
"To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologize unreservedly."
Follow up to
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Caribbean Monk Seal Declared Extinct Posted: 5 months ago by dollyllama
Kyle Baker, a biologist for NOAA's Fisheries Service southeast region, said the species is the only seal to become extinct from human causes.
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HIV Research at an Impasse Posted: 9 months ago by TchEngRox
Scientists are no further forward in developing a vaccine against HIV after more than 20 years of research, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist has said.
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Nobel winner suspended Posted: 1 year ago by proverb
Nobel laureate biologist James Watson was suspended Friday from his longtime post at a research laboratory and canceled his planned British book tour after controversial comments that black people are not as intelligent as white people.
Follow up to the follow up
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Roving Defender of Evolution, and of Room for God Posted: 7 months 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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Scientists spot white killer whale off Alaska Posted: 9 months ago by dollyllama
"I had heard about this whale, but we had never been able to find it," said Holly Fearnbach, a research biologist with the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle who photographed the rarity. "It was quite neat to find it."
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