Science news articles about 'academy of natural sciences'

... new species named after him. Gallagher was The Academy of Natural Sciences' affable mailroom supervisor for 37 ... gallagheri, a new species of catfish described by Academy fish scientist Dr. Mark Sabaj ...

PHILADELPHIA, June 11 (UPI) -- Officials at the Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia say they have named a new fish species after a "dedicated" former mail room supervisor.

... chairman of malacology (the study of mollusks) and an evolutionary biologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, who already has developed a biotic database documenting more than 25, ...

... Sciences in Philadelphia discovered Tiktaalik roseae (tik-TAHL-ik RO-zay) in 2004, ... paleontologists. Jason Downs, a scientist at the Academy of Natural Sciences and lead author of this week's paper, ...

... America, collected about 12,000 shells from 107 sites in Maine, depositing them for safe keeping at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The Penn team discovered the body size ...

... are migrating from the second row into the first row," said John Lundberg, curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and a co-author of the study. If this is so, Megapiranha may be ...