Computer analysis shows scientists could reconstruct the genome of the mammalian common ancestor
...dinosaurs more than 75 million years ago--a small, furry nocturnal animal that was the common ancestor of all placental mammals, including humans. Knowing this ancestral mammal's complete genome--the sequence of As, Cs, Ts, and Gs in the DNA that made up its chromosomes--would not mean that scientists cou...Hooked on fishing, and we're heading for the bottom, says scientist
...ve finned creatures the public profile of cute and furry ones. "It's time for leadership on global fisheries issues. It's time to act," says Dr. Pauly, Director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. "We don't need more science. This is a message that's differen...New test of snow's thickness may 'bear' results key to polar climate studies, wildlife habitat
...p the thickness of snow has a legion of unexpected furry fans hailing from one of the world's coldest regions: polar bears. From mid-March to mid-April, researchers embark on an Arctic field experiment using a new airborne radar to determine the accuracy of satellite measurements of snow's thickness atop p...Retired FSU professor captures a 'living fossil' on video
...-- The first images of a live specimen of a small, furry animal once believed to have gone extinct more than 11 million years ago have been captured during a Southeast Asian expedition led by a retired Florida State University researcher. The remarkable video and photos shot by David Redfield, a professor ...MIT engineers probe spiders' polymer art
...der this big. I never grew up around anything with furry knuckles." But he quickly settled into dissecting the peanut-sized and -shaped protuberance on the spiders' backs containing their silk-producing glands and spinnerets. Spiders don't actually spin ("spinning" refers to the age-old art of drawing out...Extreme life, marine style highlights 2006 ocean census
... mythological Polynesian goddess of shellfish. Its furry or hairy appearance justified its species name, hirsuta. A squid that chews Among the 80,000 organisms encompassing 354 families, genera and species that Census deep-sea investigators collected from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge was the reference specim...Transport interrupted -- Texas A&M biologists trace cause of early blindness to tissue defect
...t. "Most people think of mice, monkeys and other furry animals, rather than fish, when they think of research subjects for human diseases," Perkins says. "An advantage of zebrafish is the ability to inexpensively perform forward genetic screens. Using chemicals, we can induce random mutations throughout ...