Colobus Monkey wallpaper, Apes in Peril, E. Coli Conservatives and Mad Cow disease

Colobus monkey – Kenya wallpaper 1280×1024 
Colobus monkeys are unusual among the apes in they do not have thumbs, thus in someone’s mind that correlated to naming them after the Greek word for “mutilated”.  They could have called them salt n’ pepper tree dwellers for both their color and their tendency to spend almost all their [...]

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Babcock Park Mill wallpaper, Bee mystery still unsolved, Cell level communication between species

Babcock Park Mill and Creek wallpaper 
I meant to post this a couple days ago, but just like papers get misplaced so do text files, Who killed the honeybees?
It is a discussion rather then an article. The round table of experts can’t put their finger on one answer. Its not radiation from cell phone towers. At [...]

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Just duckey pochard wallpaper, Why oh why do people resist science, A victory for endangered fur animals

 
Just duckey red-crested pochard wallpaper 1280×1024 
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Chordata
Class:     Aves
Order:     Anseriformes
Family:     Anatidae
Genus:     Netta
Species:     N. rufina
A diving duck and native of southern Europe and parts of Asia. The female, as is the case in many bird species is duller in colorations – photos of the female here.
Why some people resist [...]

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Crystal clear lake wallpaper, Starch plus enzymes equals hydrogen fuel, Watch out for that monkfish

Crystal clear mountain lake wallpaper 
Running Cars on Hydrogen Made from Starch
The new system produces a higher yield of hydrogen than previous experimental systems that used enzymes for converting sugars into hydrogen. But while the yield of hydrogen is high, so far the rates at which the gas is produced are extremely low. That’s in part [...]

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Mountain blossoms wallpaper, Fingers evolved from fins, Croc hunter’s daughter starts wildlife show

Mountain blossoms wallpaper  
How Fins Became Fingers – Fins of living fossil fish governed by same genetic program as human limbs
A living fossil fish is giving researchers a peek into the genetic machinery that would eventually lead to our hands and feet. The fins of the modern paddlefish Polyodon spathula, which evolved perhaps 200 million [...]

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