by Piter Kehoma Boll
Lesula (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) the newly discovered monkey with a disturbing-to-look-at human-like face. Photo by Maurice Emetshu.
News
- Guess Who’s Chopping Down The Amazon Now? Since the deforestation of the Amazon Forest in Brazil started to fall, it started to rise in the neighbour countries.
- Species multiply as Earth heats up, just as in the tropics.
- One-fifth of invertebrate species at risk of extinction. Invertebrates are so important, yet so neglected!
- Science wins over creationism in South Korean. Aha! Deal with it!
- Creativity Predicts a Longer Life. Let’s brainstorm!
- New animal species now official when published online. A big step and less printing on paper!
- Lemon sharks ‘learn’ skill by watching each other. Nature is always surprising us!
- A New Kind of Monkey, With Colors That Set It Apart. It’s kinda disturbing to look at it…
- Men and Women Really Do See Things Differently. Hunters and Collectors genetically bound to us.
- Bacteria replicate close to the physica limit of efficiency. Escherichia coli, always impressive!
- Element 113 at last? Will the gap be filled?
Blog
- Tiny Carboniferous Steps. Brian Switek talks about the smallest known fossil vertebrate footprints.
- Sexual selection in the fossil record. How far can we guess the bizarre things hidden in the past?
- What’s Sexy to a Dinosaur? More about fossil sexual selection!
- Why do killer whales go through menopause? There are grannies even in the sea.
- Ruminations on sauropsid cheeks. Reptilian cows.
- Bumblebees Quickly Learn Best Paths to Sweet Flowers. Insects are way more intelligent than we think!
- A Cretaceous Haidomyrmex as the first trap-jaw ant? Even the earliest ants had complex jaws!
- What Do Animals Think of Their Dead? An interesting question!
- Nature’s hidden beauty – A tangent from Intro Bio. A nice post link photosynthesis, vision and pollination beautifully!
Art
I had no particular art works to post this month, so I made some random search on deviantART and found some interesting paintings and I thought they would be worth sharing!
- Cat, by MGee-AD. I really like the face details. It’s as cute as a real cat!
- Puffin Couple, by Nairalin. Lovely!
- Northern Shoveler, by Misted-Dream. Serene!
Books
- Dinosaur Art – The World’s Greatest Paleoart, by Titan Books, edited by Steve White. Read PK’s review here!
Scientific Articles
- The Smallest Known Tetrapod Footprints: Batrachichnus salamandroides from the Carboniferous of Joggins, Nova Scotia, Canada. Ichnofossils are always interesting ways to know about the interactions of past beings with their environment.
- Evidence for a bacterial mechanism for group-specific social odors among hyenas. It’s an infected smelly group.
- Lesula: A New Species of Cercopithecus Monkey Endemic to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Implications for Conservation of Congo’s Central Basin. The disturbing-to-look-at monkey,
- Rediscovery of the Bizarre Cretaceous Ant Haidomyrmex Dlussky (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with Two New Species. Entraped in amber and having amazing jaws!
- Extreme Reproduction and Survival of a True Cliffhanger: The Endangered Plant Borderea chouardii (Dioscoreaceae). If it’s hard to find a seed disperser, use the pollinator for that too!
- Male Microchimerism in the Human Female Brain. Boys, your mom has a part of you in her brain, literally.
- Catapulting Tentacles in a Sticky Carnivorous Plant. This plant is though!
- The Power of Kawaii: Viewing Cute Images Promotes a Careful Behavior and Narrows Attentional Focus. ^^
- A New Maatrichtian Species of the Centrosaurine Ceratopsid Pachyrhinosaurus from the North Slope of Alaska. Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum sp. nov., a new dinosaur!
- New Large Leptictid Insectivore from the Late Paleogene of South Dakota, USA. Megaleptictis altidens gen. et sp. nov., a new leptictid!
- A New Omonyid Primate from the Earliest Eocene of Southern England: First Phase of Microchoerine Evolution. Melanerevia schrevei sp. nov., a new (fossil) primate!
- Three new species of Monogenea (Platyhelminthes) parasites of fish in the Guandu river, southeastern Brazil. As you can see, there seems to be no limits for biodiversity findings!
(If you are willing to read some of the articles but got no access to them, please contact us and we’ll send you a copy through e-mail!)
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