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Bat Breath Reveals The Identity Of A Vampire's Last Victim
August 18, 2007 — Farmers are observing vampire bats satisfying their need for blood by attacking cattle instead of wild mammals. To document this change in behaviour, scientists analysed the stable carbon isotope ... > full story -
Bones Beat Trees As Markers For Environmental Change
August 17, 2007 — Environmental change in the Earth's atmosphere is clearly writ in the bones of wolves, scientists have discovered. To track atmospheric change caused by human activity, researchers have long studied ... > full story -
Fruit Bats Discovered To Have Menstrual Cycles
August 5, 2007 — Scientists have discovered that a type of fruit bat menstruate in a similar way to women. They say their findings could lead to bats being studied by researchers trying to understand human menstrual ... > full story -
Rare Example Of Darwinism Seen In Action
July 31, 2007 — A research team has found experimental evidence that supports a controversial theory of genetic conflict in the reproduction of those animals that support their developing offspring through a ... > full story -
Mystery Of Mammalian Ears Solved
July 27, 2007 — A 30-year scientific debate over how specialized cells in the inner ear amplify sound in mammals appears to have been settled more in favor of bouncing cell bodies rather than vibrating, hair-like ... > full story -
Back To The Future: Mastodon Extends The Time Limit On DNA Sequencing
July 24, 2007 — The first complete mitochondrial DNA genome for the mastodon extends the age range for genomic analyses by almost a complete glacial cycle, and resolves the relationships among African and Asian ... > full story -
Paleontologists Study A Remarkably Well-Preserved Baby Siberian Mammoth
July 22, 2007 — Paleontologists are examining the frozen, nearly intact remains of a 4-month-old female woolly mammoth. "It's the best and most complete mammoth carcass--baby or adult--ever found," according to one ... > full story -
Killer Whales Metabolize Contaminants, Yet Still Show Record-High Contamination Levels
July 21, 2007 — Killer whales hold the gloomy record of being the most-polluted European arctic mammal, says a new study published in the latest issue of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Levels of ... > full story -
Climate Change Reduces Bat Population In Queensland, Australia
July 9, 2007 — A central eastern Queensland mine has turned up bat fossils which show climate change has had a negative impact on the state's bat population. Researchers are currently sifting through what is the ... > full story -
Wolves Of Alaska Became Extinct 12,000 Years Ago, Scientists Report
July 4, 2007 — The ancient gray wolves of Alaska became extinct some 12,000 years ago, and the wolves in Alaska today are not their descendents but a different subspecies, an international team of scientists ... > full story
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