Life Sciences

Piecing Together an Extinct Lemur, Large as a Big Baboon
An extinct face. The reconstructed skull of Hadropithecus in three-quarters view. The scale bar is 10 mm. Credit: Timothy Ryan, Penn State University
Fedoroff Awarded Honorary Degree at Rockefeller University
World's Smallest Snake Found in Barbados
The snake named Leptotyphlops carlae, as thin as a spaghetti noodle, is resting on a U. S. quarter. Credit: Blair Hedges, Penn State
Eight-Day Undersea Mission Begins Experiment to Improve Coral Reef Restoration
Scientists are conducting an experiment to determine why some species of coral survive transplanting after a disturbance, such as a storm, while other species die.
Woolly-Mammoth Gene Study Changes Extinction Theory
Penn State University genomicists Webb Miller and Stephan C. Schuster, in front of the Roche / 454 Life Sciences' Genome Sequencer 20 System that was used to sequence mammoth mitochondrial DNA from the hair of 10 woolly mammoths. Credit: Lynn Tomsho, Penn State
A Survivor in Greenland: A Novel Bacterial Species is Found Trapped in 120,000-Year-Old Ice
Credit: Penn State A scanning electron microscope image of the Chryseobacterium greenlandensis bacteria found in a Greenland glacier.
Climate Change Does Double-Whammy to Animals in Seasonal Environments
Credit: Eric Post, Penn State Plant-eating animals like caribou in highly seasonal environments like the Arctic face two climate-related challenges in locating nutritious food. Not only are these animals arriving at their breeding grounds after the plants there have passed their peak nutritional value, but these animals now are less able to find good food by moving their calves to other locations where, prior to global warming, plants had been available later in the season.
Postle Elected Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology
Charles Fisher Receives Conservation Award from Department of the Interior
Team Led by Fisher Receives Conservation Award from Department of the Interior
Charles Fisher
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