This is a beautifully written overview of the history of the life sciences targeted to teens, and is the first of a planned four-volume series © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee Sample pages: Discovering Life’s Story: Biology’s Beginnings by Joy Hakim. (Credit: MITeen Press) Joy Hakim / MITeen Press Providing a …
When a thirsty and lonely male zebra finch changes his mind from getting a drink of water to prioritizing courtship, his dopamine-releasing brain cells reflect his new intensions © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee A pair of Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata), male on the left, in Sturt National Park, NSW, … …
A new study combines fossil and archaeological records with DNA samples to trace the history of Amazona parrots in the Caribbean from the Pleistocene through the Holocene © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee The authors pieced together the long history of parrots in the genus Amazona, focusing on two … [+] …
High-tech tracking reveals red-crowned parrots have four main roosts in Texas: Brownsville, Harlingen, Weslaco and McAllen © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee Red-crowned Parrot (Amazona viridigenalis) Redlands, California. (Credit: Tom Benson / CC BY-NC-ND … [+] 2.0) Tom Benson via a Creative Commons license After conducting a high-tech survey of red-crowned …
The bright lights of big cities could be causing an evolutionary adaptation for smaller eyes in some birds, a new study indicates. © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee Adult male Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), is a species that often lives in cities. … [+] (Credit: Andrej Chudý / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) …
Songbirds with the most complex vocal learning abilities were also the best problem solvers and had the largest brains relative to body size © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) in Woodbridge, Virginia. (Credit: Judy Gallagher / CC BY 2.0) Judy Gallagher via a Creative Commons license European …
Photographed on a private game reserve in central Namibia, this young Angolan giraffe is the first spotless giraffe recorded in the wild in Africa © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee A so-far unique wild spotless giraffe has been spotted in Namibia. This distinctive all-brown calf … [+] was photographed as it …
An engaging book about the viruses that prey on bacteria, packed with inspirational stories of eccentric scientists, medical miracles and interwoven with how science and history affect each other © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee Transmission electron micrograph of multiple bacteriophages attached to a bacterial cell wall; the … [+] magnification …
Global warming isn’t only affecting animals like polar bears and emperor penguins. African wild dog populations may also collapse due to climate change © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee African wild dog (Lycaon pictus pictus), Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa. A new study finds … [+] that higher temperatures could mean …
Our love of nature is highly individual and how we plan our cities and urban green spaces should take this into account, say scientists © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee Gapstow Bridge in autumn in Central Park, NYC. This ornamental stone pedestrian bridge was built in … [+] 1896 and spans …