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In press at PNAS is the report of the sequence of the mitochondrial genome sequence of the very unusual metazoan Trichoplax adhaerens. Trich...

Stuff on the web/in the news that has caught my eye recently. News There was a letter sent by several leading doctors to the Times calling f...

Damocles serratus a fossil shark from Bear Gulch I have just found this lovely website: Fossil fishes of Bear Gulch "The Bear Gulch Li...

Mimicry is a fascinating and widespread phenomenon where one organism gains some benefit by resembling another organism or thing. This resem...

According to The Guardian the whole of the archive related to the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun is goinf to be made available onli...

A new report called ' The state of butterflies in Britian and Ireland ' by the charity Butterfly Conservation has just been resleas...

Stuff on the web that has caught my eye recently. Papers: The current issue of the journal developmental dynamics has a nice set of evo-de...

Stromatoveris (click for bigger) In the current issue of Science ( 5 May 2006 ) There is a description of an amazing new fossil from the Ch...

In the current issue of Nature ( 27 April 06 ) there is an interesting article about the reason that female Spotted hyaenas ( Crocuta croc...

The famous birthday party initation from Claudia Severa to Lepidina Link Just found this via ABZU : Vindolanda tablets online , This is a co...

The Chernobyl reactor today, from Daniel Cuthbert Today is the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster . There is alot of research on th...

Illustration showing the size of a dwarf elephant It seems to be common theme that when populations of large mammals are isolated on islands...

Some good news from the BBC : "An online petition has been launched allowing the UK public to back medical research using animals. The ...

humuhumunukunukuapuaa Apparently the fish know as humuhumunukunukuapuaa is going to be reinstated as the state fish of Hawaii . This wonder...

Found via Pruned beautiful pictures of fluorescent stained plant cells, more pictures can be found Here , part of Jim Haseloff's Lab...

There has been a fair bit of recent research on the role of positive selection on the evolution of the human brain with the discovery that ...

The Hairy Museum of Natural History has a nice post on Sharovipteryx mirabilis with some more information and an excellent drawing of th...

I love these dinosaur tracks, it looks almost as if the giant sauropods had just walked past: Detail of Sauropod tracks, Large scale bar 5...

This press releass via Eurekalert: Nanopore method could revolutionize genome sequencing "A team led by physicists at the University of...

Well hopefully the beginning of the end, here in Britain at least. New rules have been introduced today which amoung other things will hop...