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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

ScienceDaily: Most Popular News

ScienceDaily: Most Popular News


Paleontologists discover new fossil organism

Posted: 09 May 2014 02:29 PM PDT

Paleontologists have discovered a fossil of a newly discovered organism from the Ediacara Biota. Plexus ricei was a broadly curving tube that resided on the seafloor. Individuals range in size from 5 to 80 cm long and 5 to 20 mm wide, and comprise a rigid median tubular structure and a fragile outer tubular wall. Plexus ricei evolved around 575 million years ago, disappearing from the fossil record around 540 million years ago.

Super-charged tropical trees: Borneo’s productive trees vitally important for global carbon cycling

Posted: 08 May 2014 04:23 PM PDT

A team of scientists has found that the woody growth of forests in north Borneo is half as great again as in the most productive forests of north-west Amazonia, an average difference of 3.2 tons of wood per hectare per year.

Mummy-making wasps discovered in Ecuador

Posted: 08 May 2014 08:10 AM PDT

Field work in the cloud forests of Ecuador has resulted in the discovery of 24 new species of Aleiodes wasps that mummify caterpillars. Among the 24 new insect species described by Shimbori and Shaw, several were named after famous people including the comedians and television hosts Jimmy Fallon, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Ellen DeGeneres, as well as the Ecuadorian artist Eduardo Kingman, American poet Robert Frost, and Colombian singer and musician, Shakira.

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