News: Snakes trick prey for easy meal Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 26th June 2009 03:30 PM GMT] Water snakes trick their fish prey into swimming directly into their waiting jaws, according to a study published in PNAS last week (June 19). With a subtle body movement, the ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: A downside to female promiscuity Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 25th June 2009 07:00 PM GMT] A new study has revealed a mating conundrum in the animal kingdom: Less fit male seed beetles father more offspring than their high quality competitors when they mate with the same female, says a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Evolution speeds up in the tropics Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 24th June 2009 12:01 AM GMT] Tropical mammals are evolving faster than those found at high latitudes or elevations, according to a study published online today (June 23) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. This pattern had previously been found in plants and marine protists ... Click to continue View comments (11) | Comment on this news story News: Finch researchers win Kyoto Prize Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 20th June 2009 12:00 AM GMT] Peter and Rosemary Grant, emeritus professors at Princeton University ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Ancient bivalve had huge sperm Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 18th June 2009 07:00 PM GMT] Sexually reproducing ancient crustaceans had sperm that were literally larger than life, according to a new study to be published in next week's issue of Science. The finding suggests that despite the extreme energetic costs of producing such sperm, ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Can monkeys mislead? Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 3rd June 2009 12:01 AM GMT] Capuchin monkeys cry "predator" to trick more senior members of their troop into fleeing the dinner table, leaving more food for themselves, according to a ... Click to continue View comments (14) | Comment on this news story

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