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- Bigger, scarier weapons help spiders get the girl
- A small step for lungfish, a big step for the evolution of walking
- A whole new meaning for thinking on your feet: Brains of small spiders overflow into legs
- 'Matrix'-style effortless learning? Vision scientists demonstrate innovative learning method
- World's smallest frogs discovered in New Guinea
| Bigger, scarier weapons help spiders get the girl Posted: 12 Dec 2011 12:31 PM PST If you're a red-headed guy with eight bulging eyes and a unibrow, size does indeed matter for getting the girl. More specifically, the bigger a male jumping spider's weapons appear to be, the more likely his rival will slink away without a fight, leaving the bigger guy a clear path to the waiting female.  |
| A small step for lungfish, a big step for the evolution of walking Posted: 12 Dec 2011 12:31 PM PST The eel-like body and scrawny "limbs" of the African lungfish would appear to make it an unlikely innovator for locomotion. But its improbable walking behavior, newly described, redraws the evolutionary route of life on Earth from water to land.  |
| A whole new meaning for thinking on your feet: Brains of small spiders overflow into legs Posted: 12 Dec 2011 09:47 AM PST Smithsonian researchers report that the brains of tiny spiders may fill their body cavities and overflow into their legs. As part of research to understand how miniaturization affects brain size and behavior, researchers measured the central nervous systems of nine species of spiders, from rainforest giants to spiders smaller than the head of a pin. As the spiders get smaller, their brains get proportionally bigger, filling up more and more of their body cavities.  |
| 'Matrix'-style effortless learning? Vision scientists demonstrate innovative learning method Posted: 12 Dec 2011 09:46 AM PST It may be possible to use brain technology to learn to play a piano, reduce mental stress or hit a curve ball with little or no conscious effort, new research suggests. It's the kind of thing seen in Hollywood's "Matrix" franchise.  |
| World's smallest frogs discovered in New Guinea Posted: 12 Dec 2011 09:39 AM PST Field research has uncovered the world's smallest frogs in southeastern New Guinea. The discovery also makes them the world's smallest tetrapods (non-fish vertebrates). The frogs belong to the genus Paedophryne, all of whose species are extremely small, with adults of the two new species -- named Paedophryne dekot and Paedophryne verrucosa -- only 8 to 9 millimeters in length.  |
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