Posts Tagged ‘eggs’
Abalone plume draws in sperm
U. WASHINGTON (US) — A molecule notorious for making us sleepy at Thanksgiving also makes it easier for red abalone sperm to hit their target. Continue…
Monday, August 15, 2011 14:53 - 0 Comments
Health & Medicine - Dec 6, 2010 16:09 - 1 Comment
This stands between you and pandemic
U. ROCHESTER (US) — Eggs—hundreds of millions of them—have to be available to make flu vaccines happen each year. But a new study with bacteria suggests there may be a way to skip the eggs. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 10, 2010 13:39 - 2 Comments
Eggshells preserve elephant bird DNA
Like an outsized ostrich, Aepyornis stood nearly 3m high and its eggs are the largest bird eggs ever known, with a capacity of 11 litres—equivalent to 180-240 chicken eggs or seven ostrich eggs. Most of the birds appear to have died out before AD 1000, when a lost civilization emerged in the south of Madagascar. (Courtesy: U. Sheffield)
Science & Technology - Mar 3, 2010 11:13 - 1 Comment
Snake caught in the sauropod-eating act
U. MICHIGAN (US)—The remains of an extraordinary fossil unearthed in 67-million-year-old sediments from Gujarat in western India provide a rare glimpse at an unusual feeding behavior in ancient snakes. (more…)
