How did research on sponges explain Darwin’s Paradox?

Image: Blue-violet Oscarelle (Oscarella lobularis) and blue encrusting sponge (Phorbas tenacior) in the Mediterranean Sea near Banyuls. Follow the link to see the annotations to this ... Continue Reading →

Who is Porifera, and could he/she really be 640 million years old?

VIDEO 2 min. 23 sec. Of the 5,000 (some say up to 10,000) species of sponges considered to have been identified, the above is just one example of the diversity within the Porifera phylum, ... Continue Reading →

Advanced LIGO Heard Gravitational Waves on Day One

Image: The LIGO Livingston [Louisiana] control room as it was during Advanced LIGO’s first observing run (O1). This panoramic was sewn together from several images. Image: Opened ... Continue Reading →

Ants don’t taste good, but their larvae and their dinner do.

Do you believe anteaters like to eat ants? Read this. When we were investigating characteristics of ants for our ant “ugh” counteraction poll, we discovered a curious fact: Ants ... Continue Reading →

DIY Presentation Apps Due for Maker Faire

Help! My favorite tech gadget has been phased out! Google Glass, despite its successful use in health fields, did not reach the popularity needed to succeed in the marketplace, and ... Continue Reading →

Bronze Age Town Found Preserved in Silt in Britain

Must Farm is shedding light on Britain’s bronze age. Above image is of the reconstructed Bronze Age roundhouse at [[Flag Fen]] in [[Cambridgeshire]], Eastern England. Photographed ... Continue Reading →

VIDEO: Watch wood ants spray formic acid.

If you have read about the yellow crazy ants’ use of formic acid to blind their prey in a mass attack, and wondered how this is done, here’s your chance to see how that ... Continue Reading →

Yellow crazy ant sets the bar for dangerously invasive species.

* Supercolonizing ant with fascinating behavior destroys ecological balance. “Yellow crazy ant,” the common name of the species Anoplolepis gracilipes–seems a whimsical ... Continue Reading →

Pre-dinosaur native of New Zealand hatched in England’s Chester Zoo.

Dinosaur lovers can thank Isolde McGeorge, an animal caretaker at the Chester Zoo, in Chester County, United Kingdom, for overseeing care of two pre-dinosaur eggs until hatching. The ... Continue Reading →

Who is threatening the red crabs of Christmas Island?

Ian Usher, author and public speaker, traveled to Christmas Island, Indonesia, just to watch red crabs exit en masse from underground burrows, during monsoon rains. But the experience ... Continue Reading →