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Mysterious red lights spotted over Earth by ISS astronaut
Metro· 2 days agoStation (ISS) over the years. A space snake, UFOs, strange lights. For the snake, you’ll have to ask...
Unwanted passenger on TUI flight leaves Jodie, 26, 'screaming'
This is Staffordshire· 2 days agoA couple were terrified after a 'venomous' scorpion from Cancun hitched a ride to the UK to escape...
La Biologie - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoSuch being the case many important facts have to be omitted, arid much has to be embodied in a general form. It is all very well to say, as does Dr. Letourneau, that the heart is trilocular ...
Prof. Huxley's Lectures on the Evidence as to the Origin of Existing Vertebrate Animals 1 - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoIT will be necessary to preface our remarks as to the origin of the next highest group of Vertebrates-that of Reptiles-by some account of the distinction between them and ...
Batrachians and Reptiles in the Cambridge Natural History 1 - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoIN the preface to this welcome volume the author reminds his readers of the words of Linnæus, “Amphibiologi omnium paucissimi sunt nullique yen.” What progress has been accomplished by the “ ...
Eye Movements and Electroencephalogram Activity during Sleep in Diurnal Lizards - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoIN a recent study of the sleep behaviour of a reptile (tortoise) it has been reported that a paradoxical or rapid eye movement stage was not observed during extended periods ...
Research Items - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoEach and every one of the twenty-eight bones in the human skull is derived from bones present in the skull of certain Devonian air-breathing fishes. To the amphibians man owes the beginnings ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoGeological Society, June 21.—Joseph Prestwich, F.R.S., in the chair.—R. J. Watson, W. T. Scarth, Gen. A. C. Bentinck, and John Brooke were elected Fellows of the Society.—“On some supposed Vegetable ...
The Swallowing of One Snake by Another - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoTHE snake incident, described in NATURE, October 25 last, page 620, as having occurred in the reptile-house in the Zoological Society's menagerie, recalls to my mind two similar ...
Protection of the Galapagos Fauna - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoTHE giant tortoises and large iguanid lizards, which are a noteworthy feature of the fauna of the Galapagos Islands, have been greatly reduced in numbers during the last hundred and fifty years ...
