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Scientists to discover why flamingos are in the pink of health -- in the poo!

... out to discover why flamingos are so in the pink of health - in the poo! Dr David Harper, of ... In Africa the lesser flamingo, with its beautiful pink plumage, stands for everything that is pure and ... to see how well lesser flamingos thrive and how pink they grow, when they are surrounded by heavy ...

Fish farms drive wild salmon populations toward extinction

... extinction. The results show that the affected pink salmon populations have been rapidly declining ... sea lice have killed more than 80% of the annual pink salmon returns to British Columbias Broughton ... back to 1970, the data covers 14 populations of pink salmon (Onchorhynchus gorbuscha) that have been ...

Study shows Darwin was wrong about the origins of chickens

... be important for carotenoid-based pigmentation in other species like the pink color of the flamingo; the yellow legs of many birds of prey including eagles, falcons and hawks; the pink muscles of salmon, and even skin color in humans. ...

Biologist discovers pink-winged moth in Chiracahua Mountains

... flew in and we didn't think much of it because there is a silk moth very much like it, a Doris silk moth that feeds on pines that has dark wings with pink on the hind wings. It's fairly common there." On closer inspection, though, the moth, a female, appeared to be an entirely different species from ...

Male impotence drugs may deserve a second look in women

... Society held in New Orleans April 18-22 as part of the Experimental Biology 2009 scientific conference. Although there was talk years ago of a pink pill for women to parallel the blue Viagra for men, early clinical trials found essentially no response in women. MCG researchers decided to look ...

Ocean fish farming harms wild fish, study says

... Larger numbers of lice are especially dire for salmon because juvenile salmon must transit coastal areas where salmon farms are located. Juvenile pink and chum salmon (Pacific species) suffer most because they spend much of their early life in coastal waters, and they are so small at ocean-entry ...

'A dinosaur dance floor'

... 1,000," Seiler and Chan wrote. And they say the density of tracks is much greater than it is at even larger track sites, such as the one at Coral pink Sand Dunes State Park in Utah. The dinosaur tracks and tail marks near the Wave were preserved in the vast Navajo Sandstone Formation. But unlike ...

Scientists announce top 10 new species, issue SOS

... in 2007. On the list are an ornate sleeper ray, with a name that sucks: Electrolux; a 75-million-year-old giant duck-billed dinosaur; a shocking pink millipede; a rare, off-the-shelf frog; one of the most venomous snakes in the world; a fruit bat; a mushroom; a jellyfish named after its victim; a ...

Deep-sea sharks wired for sound

... metres, says CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship scientist, Dr Alan Williams. This rich belt yields prime table fish such as blue eye trevalla and pink ling, but is also home to several shark species vulnerable to over-fishing. The fishery has taken steps to reduce its impact on sharks by putting ...

Darwin was wrong about the wild origin of the chicken

... Professor Leif Andersson, who directed the project. The scientists believe that the same gene may well be of significance in explaining the pink color of the flamingo, the yellow leg color of many birds of prey, and the reddish meat of the salmon. These characteristics are all caused by ...

Impacts of fossil fuels on fish and people

... delves into how one type of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, a compound found in oil, damaged the developing hearts of Pacific herring and pink salmon embryos after the Exxon Valdez spill of 1989. Certain PAHs were recognized as carcinogenic more than a century ago, but a class of PAHs ...

Ant parasite turns host into ripe red berry, biologists discover

... assistant professor of biology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, who noted that numerous tropical plants produce small red, orange and pink berries. "When you see them in the sunlight, it's remarkable." Dudley chanced upon the infected ants while he, Yanoviak and ant ecologist Michael ...

Buyer beware: Stressed plants won't survive shipping

... (commonly known as paper daisy or strawflower) cultivars Florabella White, Florabella Gold, Dreamtime Cream, and Sundaze Golden Yellow, and Cascadias pink petunia. Starman noted that more conducive environmental conditions, better care, and faster turnover in the retail market are needed to improve ...

New southernpeas developed by ARS, cooperators

... casseroles and fritters, a fried quick-bread. GreenPack-DG forms long, slightly curved pods that hold 12 plump, olive-green peas, each with a pink eye. It is the only pink-eyed southernpea that has two genes for greenness, not just one. Its "DG" initials stand for "double green." The ...

Biotech cotton 8: Bugs 0

... Biotech cotton has beaten back pink bollworm eight years running, reports a team of ... can have 100 percent of plants infested with pink bollworm caterpillars, which live inside the ... Before the use of Bt cotton became widespread, pink bollworm was one of the top three insect pests of ...

Researchers reveal the infectious impact of salmon farms on wild salmon

... individual observations of over 5,500 young wild pink and chum salmon over 60 km of migration route; an ... the infection levels of migrating juvenile pink and chum salmon as they approached and passed a ... as they approached it. Unlike other species, pink and chum salmon leave their natal rivers while ...

'Personality-gene' makes songbirds curious

... second test, they quantified the reaction of the bird towards each of two unknown objects that had been put in its cage. One such novel object was a pink panther (see figure 2). The results from the group of selected birds were confirmed with data from free-living, unselected great tits. In the ...

Mine runoff continues to provide clues to microbial diversification

... pink slime at the surface of water trickling through an old mine in California ... because not everyone’s individual genome will be sequenced.? The pink microbial biofilm communities found in the mine runoff provide perfect ...

Salmon farms kill wild fish, study shows

... migration routes. The result is a cloud of sea lice through which the juveniles must migrate. "It takes only one or two sea lice to kill a juvenile pink or chum salmon," said Krkosek. "The juveniles are so vulnerable because they are so small ?only one to two inches long." "We often worry about ...

Biotech cotton provides same yield with fewer pesticides

... We've wanted to do that for 25 years." Bt cotton has been genetically altered to produce Bt toxin, a naturally occurring insecticide that kills pink bollworm, a major pest of cotton. Bt cotton has been planted in Arizona since 1996. Now more than half of the state's 256,000 acres of cotton fields ...

Avian flu modeled on supercomputer, explores vaccine and isolation options for thwarting a pandemic

... node. The purchase of the Science Appliance was funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration's Advanced Simulation and Computing program. pink is currently a system software research platform, a science appliance cluster concept invented at Los Alamos in the Computer and Computational ...

Robot-based system developed at Carnegie Mellon detects life in Chile's Atacama desert

... environment. This characterization also may explain why such a high proportion of the bacteria from the most arid site are pigmented ?red, yellow or pink ?as they grow in the laboratory, according to Minkley. The first phase of the ASTEP project began in 2003 when a solar-powered robot named ...