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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News


Like mama bears, nursing mothers defend babies with a vengeance

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:53 PM PDT

Women who breast-feed are far more likely to demonstrate a "mama bear" effect -- aggressively protecting their infants and themselves -- than women who bottle-feed their babies or non-mothers, according to a new study.

'Landlubber' fish leap for love when tide is right: Research sheds light on how animal life first evolved to colonize land

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 07:25 AM PDT

One of the world's strangest animals -- a unique fish that lives on land and can leap large distances despite having no legs -- has a rich and complex social life, a new study has found. The odd lifestyle of the Pacific leaping blenny (Alticus arnoldorum) has been detailed for the first time in research findings that throw new light on how animal life first evolved to colonize the land.

Panda poop may be a treasure trove of microbes for making biofuels

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 10:12 AM PDT

Panda feces contains bacteria with potent effects in breaking down plant material in the way needed to tap biomass as a major new source of "biofuels" produced not from corn and other food sources, but from grass, wood chips and crop wastes, scientists report.

Death from above: Parasite wasps attacking ants from the air filmed for the first time

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 08:45 AM PDT

Flight attacks of small parasitoid wasps (no larger than two millimeters in size) on ant workers have been filmed by researchers. The four species of wasps show amazing adaptations and enormous differences in the tactics they use. Two of the four filmed species are new to science.

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