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Quest for Extinct Giant Rats Leads Scientists to Ancient Face Carvings
February 11, 2011 — Ancient stone faces carved into the walls of a well-known limestone cave in East Timor have been discovered by a team searching for fossils of extinct giant ... > full story -
Death in the Bat Caves: Disease Wiping out Hibernating Bats
February 3, 2011 — Conservationists across the United States are racing to discover a solution to white-nose syndrome, a disease that is threatening to wipe out bat species across North America. Although WNS has ... > full story -
The 'Rodney Dangerfield' of Halloween Icons
October 27, 2010 — While many people will be pursuing the latest pop culture icons as Halloween costumes this year, one of the annual icons of Halloween might be viewed as the Rodney Dangerfield of Halloween symbols. ... > full story -
Adapting to Darkness: How Behavioral and Genetic Changes Helped Cavefish Survive Extreme Environment
September 14, 2010 — Biologists have identified how changes in both behavior and genetics led to the evolution of the Mexican blind cavefish from its sighted, surface-dwelling ancestor. They identified a behavioral shift ... > full story -
True Causes for Extinction of Cave Bear Revealed: More Human Expansion Than Climate Change
August 24, 2010 — The cave bear started to become extinct in Europe 24,000 years ago, but until now the cause was unknown. An international team of scientists has analyzed mitochondrial DNA sequences from 17 new ... > full story -
Bats Facing Regional Extinction in Northeastern US from Rapidly Spreading White-Nose Syndrome
August 5, 2010 — A new infectious disease spreading rapidly across the northeastern United States has killed millions of bats and is predicted to cause regional extinction of a once-common bat species, according to ... > full story -
Extreme Archaeology: Divers Plumb the Mysteries of Sacred Maya Pools
July 22, 2010 — Steering clear of crocodiles and navigating around massive submerged trees, a team of divers began mapping some of the 25 freshwater pools of Cara Blanca, Belize, which were important to the ancient ... > full story -
Remarkable Fossil Cave Shows How Ancient Marsupials Grew
July 15, 2010 — The discovery of a remarkable 15-million-year-old Australian fossil limestone cave packed with even older animal bones has revealed almost the entire life cycle of a large prehistoric marsupial, from ... > full story -
Geochemist Raises Questions About Carbon Sequestration
June 16, 2010 — As carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rise, policy makers and scientists are looking at carbon sequestration as a way to tackle the problems associated with the greenhouse ... > full story -
Stalagmite Reveals Carbon Footprint of Early Native Americans
April 15, 2010 — A new study suggests that early Native Americans left a bigger carbon footprint than previously thought, providing more evidence that humans impacted global climate long before the modern industrial ... > full story
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