Wildlife officials have tried everything to keep sea lions from eating endangered salmon, dropping bombs that explode under water and firing rubber bullets and bean bags from shotguns and boats. Now it has come to issuing death sentences to chronic offenders.
A California sea lion last week became the first salmon predator to be euthanized this [...]
February 28, 2010 – 11:40 am
A veteran SeaWorld trainer was leisurely rubbing Tilikum the killer whale from a poolside platform when the 12,000-pound creature shot up, grabbed her ponytail in its mouth and dragged her down underwater.
Horrified visitors who had stuck around after a noontime show watched the animal charge through the pool with the trainer in its jaws. [...]
January 17, 2010 – 2:45 pm
Tell your local farming buddies…
The group of scientists who sequenced the genomes of three different minute wasp species, say that their work has proven that the bees have qualities, useful for both pest control and medicine. They could even improve understanding of genetics and evolution.
The tiny insects lay their eggs inside larger hosts, including [...]
January 7, 2010 – 7:36 pm
Scientists in Poland have discovered fossilized footprints of tetrapods which roamed a muddy basin in what is now southeastern Poland, 397 million years ago. Tetrapod species are four-legged animals that had backbones, such as amphibians.
The significance of this discovery is the shift in the timing of transition from our fish-like ancestors to land creatures. [...]
January 3, 2010 – 8:55 am
Japanese scientists have developed goldfish whose beating hearts can be seen through their translucent scales and skin. The developing of transparent creatures, such as the new goldfish and the frogs which were developed in 2007, are part of efforts to reduce the need for dissections.
Associate Professor in the department of Life Science at Mie University, [...]
November 27, 2009 – 4:43 pm
In 2008 Vladimir Putin shot a five-year-old female tiger with a tranquilizer gun and helped put a transmitter around her neck. The transmitter allowed people to follow the animal’s perusing through Russia’s Far East.
On Wednesday Vladimir Krever of the World Wildlife Fund said that the satellite tracking devise has been silent since mid-September; which [...]
November 26, 2009 – 1:28 pm
Are you one of those people who are fascinated by outer-space and the abysmal depths of the deep blue? One who lives for the mysteries? If so check out this news from the bottom of the ocean…
A report released last Sunday recorded 17,650 species living below 656 feet. This is the point where sunlight ceases. [...]
October 22, 2009 – 4:31 pm
I found this list floating around that was just too…unique to pass up. Recommended foods to eat “just once before you die”, or in my words, to serve to your loved on as a once-in-a-lifetime gift. “Just once,” probably because they are unavailable in your local Winn Dixie, America’s supermarket every day, or whatever the [...]
October 7, 2009 – 12:16 pm
Scientists have expanded the lifespan of rats by shutting down the production of S6K1 protein. All I have to say is, thank goodness. Now rats will live even longer! The most important implication is that we won’t have to replace them as often when we test things on them and such.
Yes, I’m joking. I’m sorry [...]
October 3, 2009 – 2:59 pm
In the past, we reported on manure powered dairy farms. Now, in Israel, they’re developing a chicken waste powered coop with wind turbines and solar sells. Being touted as the “Coop of the Future,” the Agrotop coop also has special egg collection chutes designed to enable birds to more easily lay eggs – and nearly [...]
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