Monthly Archives: May 2009
Give Up, Seahorse.
Two years after the preserved proteins of a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex were published by NCSU paleontologist, Mary Schweitzer, and her team, they’ve come back to describe the discovery of some 80-million-year-old femur bone proteins belonging to the duckbilled hadrosaur, Brachylophosaurus … Continue reading
Filed under Archosaurs, Fossils, Sea Creatures
Fox, I’ve Got Some More Bad News.
Well it’s bad enough that foxes already have to deal with increasing amounts of frost-resistant Trichina worms being all up in their shit (hopefully not literally), but it’s just been reported that the rabies virus could become a real threat … Continue reading
Tiny Gypsies: Beware The Bad-Luck Froglets
For those of us who have a problem with weeny thimble-gypsies trying to steal our shoelaces to put into their stews, West Australian herpetologists have just found the ultimate solution. Sure, you could just continue to throw regular-sized bad-luck frogs … Continue reading
Filed under Animals, New Species!, Science
