New research shows plants can shuffle and paste gene pieces to generate genetic diversity
...th a changing world. Thus, instead of being beasts of burden, Pack-MULEs may serve rice as a tool of evolutionary change. ...Neanderthals used both hands to kill
...ophisticated killers capableof bringing down large beasts from a distance. The first direct evidence of thrown spears dates back to about 19,000 yearsago. That's the age of the first known atlatl, or spear thrower- a devicethat allows a long, flexible dart to be thrown accurately at a range of 35metres or m......s to the reasons why horses didn't replace oxen as beasts of burden. "I had no idea that there was this enormous history of treadmill technology for making animals and humans produce power without actually going anywhere. It was a surprise that there were so many devices for lifting water and so forth, po...Unique social system found in famous Tsavo lions
...ying lions in Tsavo indicates that the king of the beasts has a lot of tricks up its sleeve that confuse and astound those who would type-cast it. Claims to fame The Tsavo lions, which live in the dry, scrubby grasslands of East Africa, represent the only well documented population of maneless lions. T...New study shows bison dont favor groomed roads in Yellowstone National Park
...udent who spent two winters documenting the shaggy beasts precise movements in the parks western section. Most of the travel is not taking place on groomed roads, said Dan Bjornlie, who finished his masters degree in ecology at MSU last spring. He currently works for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department....Bones of Crocodile-like Beasts Tell Tale of Global Warming
... The find of bones from several crocodile-like beasts known aschampsosaurs, along with turtles and fish - champsosaurs' favorite foods - isdetailed in the Dec. 18 issue of Science. Analysis of the find was done by theRochester team in collaboration with researchers from the Royal Tyrrell Museumof Paleon...New Evidence From Dinosaur Footsteps Show Massive Herds Once Roamed Northern Alaska
...North America during early Cretaceous time. "These beasts were trampling theirway across Alaska. It is what we expected, and now we have some conclusive evidence," Gangloff said. These new dinosaur finds combined with discoveries near Ocean Point establish Alaska as thepremier high latitude dinosaur regio......heir individual 5 millionyear periods, these giant beasts shared a very similar pattern of decline. "No one has ever put both graphs on the same chart before," saysCuffey. "Because the patterns appear to be similar, perhaps we canlearn something about the decline of the dinosaurs from the more recentdeclin...