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New research reveals why chili peppers are hot
... seeds, so it doesn't make sense for that fruit to be painfully hot, said University of Florida zoology professor and evolutionary ecologist Douglas Levey. But according to new research by Levey and ...New research challenges long-held assumptions of flightless bird evolution
... did have the ability to fly, according to new research conducted in part by University of Florida zoology professor Edward Braun. The new research, which appears this week in the online edition of ...America's smallest dinosaur uncovered
... -era ancestors of birds, completed his PhD at the University of Calgary under the supervision of zoology professor Anthony Russell. In September 2006 Longrich argued that that earliest known ancestor ...Warming in Yosemite National Park sends small mammals packing to higher, cooler elevations
... and amphibians initiated early last century by Joseph Grinnell, founding director of the museum and a zoology professor at UC Berkeley. With a large number of colleagues and students, Grinnell ...Cousin marriage laws outdated
... an opinion article published in the US open-access journal PLoS Biology, University of Otago Department of Zoology Professor Hamish Spencer and Professor Diane Paul, a Research Associate at ...Evolution, ecosystems may buffer some species against climate change
... of work is focused on just individual species," says UW-Madison zoology professor Anthony Ives. "To understand what happens to any one particular species, you need to broaden your ...Mighty diatoms: Global climate feedback from microscopic algae
... . The microscopic algae are a major component of plankton living in puddles, lakes and oceans. Zoology professor Elena Litchman, with MSU colleague Christopher Klausmeier and Kohei Yoshiyama of the ...Optimum running speed is stride toward understanding human body form
... pace were thought to balance out the difference in metabolic cost, says Karen Steudel, a zoology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. However, Steudel and Cara Wall-Scheffler of Seattle ...Charles Darwin egg leaves Cambridge museum thrilled after cracking code
... Mike Brooke, curator of ornithology, he traced the acquisition of the egg back to the notebook of a late 19th century zoology professor, Alfred Newton, a friend of Darwin and his son Frank ...
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