Texas Tech Professor to Coach Olympiad Trainees

Jun 1, 2010

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New Orleans faces a 'slime wave'

Jun 1, 2010

The Gulf oil spill could end up blasting New Orleans with crashing waves of black muck.

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Holy hybrids Batman! Caribbean fruit bat is a mash-up of three species

Jun 1, 2010

Most mammals can trace their origins to a single ancestral species. But in the Caribbean islands of the Lesser Antilles, there is a fruit bat with a far more complex family tree. Artibeus schwartzi’sgenome is a hybrid mish-mash of DNA inherited from no less than three separate ancestors. One of these is probably extinct and the other two of which still live on the same island chain. It’s a fusion bat, a sort of fuzzy, winged spork.

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Biologists Discover Secret of Success For Mysterious Caribbean Bats

May 31, 2010

Research has uncovered what was necessary for an uncommon hybrid species of bats to thrive where other mammal hybrids have failed.

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