Darwin's famous finches and Venter's marine microbes
...arine research vessel, was inspired in part by the journeys of the HMS Beagle and the HMS Challenger in the nineteenth century. But unlike those pioneering expeditions, the Sorcerer II team led by J. Craig Venter and a globe-spanning network of collaborators are after tiny microbes, classifying the species th...Exploring polar regions, understanding climate
...pire a whole new generation of scientists. From journeys of discovery to international research campaigns. Internationally coordinated polar research began 125 years ago, with the first International Polar Year 1882/83, an initiative from Carl Weyprecht (who came from Hessen, Germany). The fact that seve...Bats prey on nocturnally migrating songbirds
... storms, when engaging into their transcontinental journeys at night; the forces of a skilled, almost silent nocturnal hunter patrolling the infinite dark space await them... ...Articles on animal migration published in BioScience
...es in behavior, morphology, and physiology enables journeys that may be epic in scale. These feats of endurance and navigation are widely regarded as some of the most astonishing of natures spectacles. Researchers have gained some important insights into the evolution of migration, yet very much remains unkno...Governments should act now to save threatened turtles
...Environment and Duke University, USA, followed the journeys of ten endangered adult females over three years. Using satellite transmitters, the team tracked the turtles travelling as far as Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and the USA. On these long journeys, turtles face the risk of being ca...Space radiation threats to astronauts addressed in federal research study
...l risks and technology obstacles of extended space journeys and is tied to a 2004 presidential mandate to return to the moon by 2020 and then send human travelers on to Mars, said Baker, director of CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. Baker, an internationally known space weather exp...Scientists map the flight of the bumblebee
...researcher, Dr Mark O'Neill, is plotting the bees' journeys using a computer programme, allowing him to build up a pattern of flight paths from different places. He said: "We are trying to find out more about how bees forage, or look for their food. We're particularly interested to see if they find certain ...How satellite tracking revealed the migratory mysteries of endangered Atlantic loggerhead turtles
Their journeys are among the longest in the animal kingdom and th...they used satellite tracking systems to follow the journeys of ten turtles from Cape Verde, West Africa, which is one of the world's largest nesting sites for l...No place like home: Ant navigation skills used in robot navigation
..., Kent [session A4] Ants that return from foraging journeys can use landmarks to find their way home, but in addition they have an internal backup system that allows them to create straight shortcuts back to the nest even when the outbound part of the forage run was very winding. This backup system is called ...Migration study finds that sweeping management changes are needed to protect Atlantic bluefin tuna
... team of marine scientists has mapped the undersea journeys of Atlantic bluefin tuna and concluded that tighter restrictions should be placed on commercial fishing to protect the feeding and breeding grounds of this top migratory predator--one of the most commercially valuable fish in the sea. Researchers fro...Emory study finds monarch health tied to migration
... A new Emory University study has found that these journeys may be the key to maintaining healthy monarch popu...rations of several thousand miles or longer. These journeys can be thought of as animals essentially running a marathon every fall and spring. So if animals are...In the migratory marathon, parasitized monarchs drop out early
... outcome of animal migration is whether these long journeys can limit the spread of parasites by weeding out diseased animals. Monarch butterflies in eastern North America fly up to thousands of kilometers from Canada to Central Mexico one of the longest migrations of any insect species. Emory University res...Albatross study provides new information vital to their conservation
...Ocean. Over half then made amazing round-the-world journeys the fastest in just 46 days. "Knowing where the albatrosses will interact with fishing vessels provides governments and fisheries commissions with accurate information to stop the killing of these charismatic birds. The right combination of measu...Census of Marine Life - Discoveries and Highlights 2004: Scientists add 4m+ records, 13,000 species
...al time. Scientists have observed the transoceanic journeys of tuna from Mexico to Japan, followed salmon sharks on two-year migrations from Alaska to Hawaii, and tracked endangered leatherback sea turtles as they fanned out from their nesting beaches in Costa Rica. The animals provide valuable insights along...Head movements by warblers could reveal basis for birds' geomagnetic sense
...use a magnetic compass to guide them during yearly journeys covering thousands of kilometers, but how these birds detect the reference direction provided by the geomagnetic field, and where the sensory organ for this task is located, has remained unknown. In the new work, Dr. Henrik Mouritsen and coll...