Montana And Other Scientists Report On Life In The Ice
...t that of atypical freezer. "When [British explorer R.F.] Scott came walking down these valleys I'msure he never thought there was something alive," Priscu said. The key is liquid water. Adams figured out from trenching into the icethat the bits of gravel and sand in the sediment layer absorb ...Fossil Eggshells Hold Clues To Major Animal Extinctions As Reported In Science
...lionyears ago to the present). Over a century ago, explorer Alfred Russell Wallace wrote that "we live in azoologically impoverished world, from which all the hugest, and fiercest, andstrangest forms have recently disappeared...." The dearth of these animal species(collectively known as "megafauna," for their...Reefs and atolls of the Australian outback
When the Australian explorer Charles Sturt went looking for an inland sea, he wasn't wrong; just a few million years too late. Oceans once covered great areas of what is now inland Australia. Their traces remain in fossils, minerals and geological formations that reveal much abo...Study: King Midas' feast offered golden opportunity for fungi
...les from the historic camp established by American explorer Adolphus Greely, who set out to lead a military expedition to the North Pole in 1882. The voyage ended in disaster when supply ships failed to reach his group. Filley and Blanchette plan to continue their research in the Arctic next summer. Collabora...Giant icebergs, unprecedented ice conditions threaten Antarctic penguin colonies
...0 pairs, but was the first discovered. Members of explorer Robert Falcon Scott's expedition first visited the colony at the beginning of the 20th century. A classic story of Antarctic science and adventure, "The Worst Journey in the World," by Apsley Cherry-Garrard includes a description of an attempt by t...African predator rediscovered in Tanzania
...described by, and subsequently name after, British explorer and naturalist Willoughby Lowe. Lowe's description of the skin noted that the animal differed from other servaline genets both in its range and coloration, specifically the presence of orange in the animal's white facial spots and lighter feet and l...Researchers create 'supersized' molecule of DNA
..., maybe here or on another planet. So when we send explorer robots to Jupiter's moon, Europa, and look under the ice, we'll have an idea about what sort of life we should be looking for.'' The Science study was co-written by Stanford graduate students Haibo Liu (lead author), Jianmin Gao and Lystranne Mayna...Census finds mountain gorillas increasing
...of Natural History in the early 20th Century, U.S. explorer Carl Akeley became concerned about the future of the mountain gorilla, helping to establish Africa's first national park--now Parc National des Virunga--in 1925 to protect the gorillas. In 1959, George Schaller, senior vice president of WCS's Science...The Rosetta space probe's long trek to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
...ngary, Ireland, Italy and Great Britain. The comet explorer carries ten scientific instruments. Their job is to draw out the secrets of the comet's chemical and physical composition and reveal its magnetic and electrical properties. Using a specially designed camera, the lander will take pictures in the macro...The scoop on poop: Insect feces, dead leaves may provide clues to health of world
...s in real science, not just textbook theory," said explorer Robert Ballard, founder of the JASON Foundation for Education and best known for his discovery of the Titanic. Participating schools around the world play an active role in the research through experiments they will be conducting in their local commu...Changes to insect-seeking calls of horseshoe bats may drive new species formation
...acea" after Alfred Russell Wallace, a 19th century explorer who, together with Charles Darwin, posited some of the basic ideas that form current evolutionary theory. This region abounds in bat species. The researchers focused on the large-eared horseshoe bat, speculating that the different sizes might indic...