Deep sea buffet for bone-devouring worms
Press release based on a recently published article in Environmental MicrobiologyAn unusual relationship between bacteria and a newly discovered group of marine worms is the only known partnership (or symbiosis) which uses sunken marine mammals as its sole source of nutrition. In the September issue of Environmental Microbiology, Dr Shana Goffredi and her colleagues reveal this unique part...A buffet for early human relatives
University of Utah scientists improved a method of testing fossil teeth, and showed that early human relatives varied their diets with the seasons 1.8 million years ago, eating leaves and fruit when available in addition to seeds, roots, tubers and perhaps grazing animals. "By analyzing tooth enamel, we found that they ate lots of different things, and what they ate changed during the year...'Super Bowl': The Super Buffet Table
According to a new study, 'Even the food you see when you watch the Super Bowl can lead you to ‘Blimp' out', says researcher Collin Payne, Ph.D., of the Cornell Food and// Brand Lab. The Super Bowl ranks #1 in terms of home parties (it even beats New Year's Eve), and it ranks #2 in food consumption, according to the book, Mindless Eating (Bantam 2006). In 2004, Super Bowl partiers ate 4...