A new study out in PNAS finds that chytrid fungi dominate the fungal cummunities at high elevations in places as distant as the Himalayas and the Rocky Mountains in the U.S.
There’s also a short piece on this in the Scientist.
October 13, 2009
October 9, 2009
Make your own zebra
In an era when the general public is often concerned about genetic engineering, a zoo in Gaza has developed its own low-tech approach (donkey + tape + hair dye) to create zebras. The best part? You can ride these zebras!
September 24, 2009
Lower Pleistocene hominins involved in more than just passive scavenging
New paper out in Journal of Human Evolution provides potential evidence from a Lower Pleistocene Olduvai Gorge site that hominins were engaged in more than just passive scavenging of small to medium-size mammal carcasses. Combined with information for early usage of fire by hominins in the Lower Pleistocene, there seems to be a gradually building case that hominins have been active modifiers of the African landscape for a very long time.
September 16, 2009
September 2, 2009
EOL’s LifeDesks
Check out the (relatively) new LifeDesks pages, available thanks to the Encyclopedia of Life.
Possibly a very cool way to organize new projects!