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- Ancient crocodile competed with Titanoboa, world's largest snake, for food, paleontologists discover
- When do products (and money) literally make your mouth water?
- This beetle uses eggs as shields against wasps
- Hitchhiking snails fly from ocean to ocean
- Self-delusion is a winning survival strategy, study suggests
- Amateur botanists in Brazil discover a genuflexing plant
- Woolly mammoth's secrets for shrugging off cold points toward new artificial blood for humans
| Ancient crocodile competed with Titanoboa, world's largest snake, for food, paleontologists discover Posted: 14 Sep 2011 04:23 PM PDT Did an ancient crocodile relative give the world's largest snake a run for its money? In a new study, researchers describe a new 20-foot extinct species discovered in the same Colombian coal mine with Titanoboa, the world's largest snake. The findings help scientists better understand the diversity of animals that occupied the oldest known rainforest ecosystem, which had higher temperatures than today, and could be useful for understanding the impacts of a warmer climate in the future.  |
| When do products (and money) literally make your mouth water? Posted: 14 Sep 2011 12:44 PM PDT In certain situations, people actually salivate when they desire material things, like money and sports cars, according to a new study.  |
| This beetle uses eggs as shields against wasps Posted: 14 Sep 2011 12:43 PM PDT Seed beetles often will stack their eggs, using them as shields to protect the bottom egg from attacks by parasitic wasps, reveals new research.  |
| Hitchhiking snails fly from ocean to ocean Posted: 14 Sep 2011 11:36 AM PDT Scientists report that snails successfully crossed Central America, long considered an impenetrable barrier to marine organisms, twice in the past million years -- both times probably by flying across Mexico, stuck to the legs or riding on the bellies of shorebirds and introducing new genes that contribute to the marine biodiversity on each coast.  |
| Self-delusion is a winning survival strategy, study suggests Posted: 14 Sep 2011 10:13 AM PDT Harboring a mistakenly inflated belief that we can easily meet challenges or win conflicts is actually good for us, a new study suggests.  |
| Amateur botanists in Brazil discover a genuflexing plant Posted: 14 Sep 2011 08:58 AM PDT A new plant species that buries its seeds -- the first in its family -- was discovered in the Atlantic forest of Bahia, Brazil, by an international team of amateur and professional scientists.  |
| Woolly mammoth's secrets for shrugging off cold points toward new artificial blood for humans Posted: 14 Sep 2011 08:58 AM PDT The blood from woolly mammoths -- those extinct elephant-like creatures that roamed Earth in pre-historic times -- is helping scientists develop new blood products for modern medical procedures that involve reducing patients' body temperature.  |
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