Blonde By Nature

With the help of 30 international labs, research biologist Linda Holland has solved the sequence of the amphioxus genome (aka lancelet). Although it’s not a well-known marine animal, the worm-like creature has stolen the scientific spotlight since it is the closest invertebrate relative to vertebrates, despite the genetic split from vertebrates over 520 million years [...]

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Everything in the natural world is connected and the indicator of our successes and failures is apparent in the fragile balance of ecosystems. Ultimately, an ecosystem is “a community of living and non-living things that work together in harmony and balance” and if it becomes corrupt, frogs are the first to effectively communicate the ailments [...]

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There is some exciting news around one of the most well known men in history.
(Excuse me while I geek out for a minute)
The son of Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood, Charles Robert Darwin was born in The Mount located in Shrewsbury, England two days before Valentines Day in 1809. He developed a keen interest [...]

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On January 21st, 2007 a fisherman called the authorities with a description of a “’strange eel-like fish with razor sharp teeth’” – a very very very rare female Frilled Shark had been spotted!
This was a special event indeed as it is a shark that has never been seen alive because it lives 4,200 feet deep [...]

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The dodo bird has been extinct since the mid-to-late 17th century and genetically speaking its closest living relatives today are pigeons and doves - although it’s lineage is somewhat murky. During the Eocene era the dodos ancestors were capable of flight however the AC dodo was strictly a land animal found only on the [...]

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