An Echidna Snuggles in for a Snooze
After nearly two months of wandering the Southern Hemisphere and a few weeks of recovery post-return, it's time to get back into the blogging here at the Artful Amoeba.
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The Overlooked Joy of the Christmas Tree Worm
Put your gills in the air like you just don't care . . . Christmas tree worms, Spirobranchia giganteus. Creative Commons Nick Hobgood. Click image for link to image and license.
The Glowing Spider-Worms of New Zealand
Imagine you are a tiny caddisfly pupa. When you emerge from your pupal case, it is dark, but not pitch black, and high above you, you see the faint glow of a starry sky.
Postcards from Rangitoto, Part 2
When we left the volcano Rangitoto two posts ago, I promised more Down Under fern excitement. For the six of you still here, here we go!Toward the beginning of my hike I saw signs pointing to a kidney fern glen or gully.
Ferns, Secret Ninja Ferns, and their Alluring Asexual Bits
A beautiful young New Zealand fern frond unfolding, with mature leaves at left. (C) Jennifer Frazer. A fern may seem a simple thing. It's a leaf; it sprouts from the forest floor.
Postcards from Rangitoto
A week and a half ago I stepped off a plane and into the Southern Hemisphere for the first time in my life. In spite of 12 hours of cramped legs and loud children heedless of fellow travelers' sleep needs, it was an exhilarating feeling.
Mitochondria Are Related to Ocean Bacteria, But Not to the Ones We Thought
Your floor-model animal mitochondrion. Public domain. Click for link. Two billion years ago, around the time atmospheric oxygen levels were rising, one cell engulfed another, and instead of becoming lunch, the ingestee became an Earth-changer and, eventually, a vital part of you: mitochondria.These microscopic cell inhabitants/engines allowed their host cell to suddenly begin to burn oxygen when digesting their food, an energy source that vastly expanded the amount of energy they could harvest from a given morsel of food.
Could a Mystery Virus be the Culprit in Kawasaki Disease?
In the Nature podcast interview that went along with my Kawasaki Disease story at Nature (look for the interview halfway down the page at the story here), I talked about the tantalizing work of Dr.
Can Diseases Cross Oceans By Wind?
Aneurysms in the coronary arteries of a Kawasaki victim. Public domain; click for source. That's the question I examine in my first feature story for Nature , published today online and in the print magazine April 5.
Another Bat Die-Off Leads to Discovery of First European Ebola Virus Relative
Marburg Virus. Note distinctive "Shepherd's crooks". CDC/ Dr. Erskine Palmer, Russell Regnery, Ph.D., CDC Public Health Image Library #275; Public Domain.
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