eBay purchase is new species

You can buy anything on eBay ! from pictures of the underwear your husbands over sized girlfriend left behind in your bed, to a new species. " ...

'Horror frog' breaks own bones to produce claws

""Amphibian horror" isn't a movie genre, but on this evidence perhaps it should be. Harvard biologists have described a bizarre, hairy frog with cat-like extendable claws. Trichobatrachus...

Boiiiiiiiing! Five New Frog Species Found :: MAXINE

"This Oblate Spheroid holds so many secrets left to uncover and expose to the rest of our consciousness. Suriname, a country located on the northeast coast of South America, has become a most recent hotbed of new...

Tarbosaurus: Rare dinosaur fossil unearthed by Korea-led team

From The Hankyoreh (Korea): An international team supported by the Gyeonggi provincial government has excavated a rare dinosaur fossil in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.Hwaseong City in Gyeonggi Province and an international dinosaur excavation team led by Lee Yung-nam, a...

Velociraptor: Dinosaur Used Claws For Climbing

Scientists at Manchester University (UK) have discovered that a dinosaur traditionally regarded as one of the most violent actually used its giant razor-sharp claw to climb trees.The velociraptor* was immortalised in Steven Speilberg's 1993 film Jurassic Park, where it was...

Neanderthal Women Joined Men in the Hunt

From the New York Times (may require free registration): A new explanation for the demise of the Neanderthals (background info), the stockily built human species that occupied Europe until the arrival of modern...

First time Hybrid Speciation found in Animals

High in the Sierra Nevada mountains, a new species of butterfly has emerged as a hybrid of two existing species. It is the first time that this type of species formation has been shown in animals, according to the...

Synchrotron Reveals How Neanderthal Teeth Grew

Scientists from the United Kingdom, France and Italy have studied teeth from Neanderthals (info) with X-rays from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). They found that the dental development of...

isolation

"Recent observations in the wild have confirmed that the males among the Common Chimpanzee troops are extraordinarily hostile to males from outside of the troop. Murder parties are organized to "patrol" for the unfortunate males who might be living nearby in a solitary state....

Fact or fallacy: Sexy tree too much for some Westside neighbors

Phallic tree growing on neighbor's front lawn. Tree has testicle-bosoms.  (This is an unusual news story from the archives) Copy & Click this URL: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2002/May/08/local/stories/05local.htm   

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