Zoology News

By Leah Dill Blackard Special to the Daily Sun With school starting in just a few months the Navarro Council of the Arts is gearing up for another year of presenting an exciting season of the arts to all the schools in Navarro County.

In a study with important consequences for studies on the effects of chemicals on steroid responses in humans, a team of French and American scientists, including Michael E. Baker, PhD, professor in UC San Diego's Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology-Hypertension, have found that - contrary to earlier assumptions - enzymes used for the ...

Bristol-based zoologist and TV presenter Dr Charlotte Uhlenbroek tells Andy Welch why she'd rather be in the jungle with chimps than at home listening to the traffic F or many people, living in a Tanzanian jungle for four years with no creature comforts would be an absolute nightmare.

The annual Psychic/Paranormal Faire returns to Fort Knox, Saturday and Sunday, July 4th and 5th, 10 AM until 4 PM.

People who attend singing zoologist Lucas Miller's performances Thursday and Friday practically are asking to get a song stuck in their heads.

Due to his station as director of the society's Department of Tropical studies and the wide popularity of his travel memoirs, he knew every important conservationist from Teddy Roosevelt to Rachael Carson.

Scientists are scouring the Jacquet River Gorge in northern New Brunswick to catalogue as many species as they can in the protected area.

The Schonbrunn Zoo in Vienna has launched an art installation that puts its animals side-by-side with symbols of humanity's trashing of the environment -- including abandoned cars, rusty bathtubs and toxic waste.

Researchers have discovered the skeleton of a whale that died around 10,000 years ago in connection with the extension of the E6 motorway in Stromstad, The University of Gothenburg reported.

New research by zoologists at the University of British Columbia indicates that elevated water temperatures and heightened concentrations of carbon dioxide can dramatically increase the growth rate of a keystone species of sea star.

A whale skeleton, thought to be around 10,000 years-old, has been uncovered during construction of the E6 motorway near Stromstad in western Sweden.

18, 1944, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. Main American zoologist who contributed substantially to the study of eugenics and heredity and who pioneered the use of statistical techniques in biological research.

Rooks are as clever at making and using simple tools with their beaks as chimpanzees are with their hands, British zoologists said.

Brothers River and West Williams of Camden had the chance to hang out Saturday morning at Aldermere Farm with some new friends - several silky-soft cashmere goat kids that were born just three weeks ago.

Profile With six years of phd work on theropod dinosaurs behind him, Darren Naish mostly spends long hours in the library, hunched over his laptop.

The first photo taken of a jaguar, Panthera onca , on the Barro Colorado Island, in Panama.

Shillong, May 4 : Researchers have discovered aquatic lives in the form of fossils in Meghalaya's Janiaw village under East Khasi Hills district.

This spring, Mervyn King, the doughty governor of the Bank of England, has good reason to think about the birds and bees - " alongside other matters linked to zoology, epidemiology or ecology.

In my quest for positive data, I came across a report from Codfish Island, a tiny island south of New Zealand.

The fears of the former communist regime in then Czechoslovakia have paradoxically protected a unique territory in Prague that is home to many endangered zoological and botanical species, daily Mlada fronta Dnes wrote in its Prague supplement Thursday.