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World's rarest whale washes up on New Zealand beach
RTÉ News· 3 hours agoIt was identified by marine-mammal experts from New Zealand's Department of Conservation and the national museum, Te Papa, as a male spade-toothed whale....
Has ‘world’s rarest whale’ washed up on a beach? Scientists are scrambling to find out | CNN
CNN.com· 3 hours agoIf so, it’ll be the first opportunity for scientists to dissect one of the creatures, which could...
Species declared extinct in the US after hurricanes ravaged the South
Daily Mail· 6 days agoScientists in Florida have confirmed the first local species to be driven to extinction by...
Secret 'sky island' rainforest saved by new discoveries
BBC News· 10 hours agoPerched on a remote mountain top and surrounded by lowlands, Mabu is what's known as a "sky island"...
Rare Florida cactus becomes first US species lost to sea rise
AFP via Yahoo News UK· 7 days agoA rare species of tree cactus has gone extinct in Florida, in what is believed to be the first ...
Recent Acquisitions of the British Museum (Natural History) - Nature
Nature· 15 hours agoADDITIONS to the study series of mammals in the Zoological Department of the Museum include the skins of a male and female golden cat (Profelis aurata) from the.... Carpenter ...
Rare whale found on beach could provide wealth of data for experts
Daily Echo· 22 hours agoIt is thought that the dead mammal which was found on a South Island beach is a spade-toothed whale, which has never been seen alive in the wild. No-one knows how many there ...
Scots university calls for more research on the impact of shipping on whales
Herald Scotland via Yahoo News UK· 1 day ago“We also need to consider how any potential impacts such as increasing noise and collision risk...
Scientific Serials - Nature
Nature· 13 hours ago—On the existence of a fourth species (B. borealis) of the genus Balæn-optera in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans...Researches on spermatogenesis in the Selacians (Scyllium ...
The Size of the Brain in the Insectivore Centetes - Nature
Nature· 22 hours agoThe greatest diameter of the brain is 16 mm.; the skull in that region is from 28 to 40 mm. The small size of the brain relatively to the skull has been frequently commented upon and figured ...
