Category - Current Biology

Animals
atomic theory • climbing • coffee maker • Current Biology • Engineering • fairyfly • filter-feeders • Flight • gecko • Intelligent Design • Jasmine Nirody • manta ray • News • Oxford University • paramecium • ricochet separation • Rockefeller University • Science Advances • sea anemones • Spider-man • superhydrophic skin • The Conversation • Tinkerbella nana • van der Waals force • walking • wasps • water • whales • wings

Gecko, Fairyfly, Manta Ray: Animals Push the Limits of the Possible

5 months ago

If people can’t but obtain these feats with our greatest engineering information, what are we to assume of humble animals that make the semi-miraculous...

Cambrian explosion
animals • Anomalocaris • arthropods • B. Deline • body plans • boxing • Burgess Shale • Cambrian animals • Cambrian Explosion • Cambrian News • Charles Marshall • Current Biology • Darwin's Doubt • Darwinians • Debating Darwin's Doubt • digestive system • Evolution • Evolution News • Graham Budd • Intelligent Design • James B. Dorey • lineages • locomotion • Michael S. Y. Lee • morphospace • muscles • nerves • News • paleontology • radiations • reproduction • sensory system • Stephen Meyer • taxa • velvet worms • Winston Churchill

In Cambrian Explosion Debate, ID Wins by Default

6 months ago

Typically you win a recreation by default. The loser won’t acknowledge dropping, however fails to point out up.  Image a world champion prize fighter who...

Design of Life
Aarhus University • arctic tern • black-bellied seedcrackers • Bridgett vonHoldt • butterflies • cameroon • CRISPR • Current Biology • Darwin Devolves • Darwin's Finches • Design of Life • dolphins • echolocation • Entomological Society of America • Evolution • Flight: The Genius of Birds • Florida • gene hacking • George Washington University • glyphosphate • Illustra Media • Intelligent Design • Living Waters • Lund University • Mark Johnson • mexico • Michael Behe • migration • Monarch butterflies • Nature (journal) • New Scientist • News • Princton University • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Richard Sternberg • salmon • Susanne Åkesson • Sweden • Tom Smith • University of Seville • University of St. Andrews • whales • WorldView-3 satellite

Encore Performances in the Design of Life

6 months ago

The celebs of Illustra Media’s “Design of Life“ movies proceed acting on the stage of science with new tips, confounding evolution as they go. An ID roundup:...

Wildebeest
ATP • Bos taurus • Botswana • Cataglyphis fortis • Connochaetes taurinus • cost of transport • Current Biology • Darwin's tree • dependency graph • desert ant • Fiordland crested penguin • fruit fly • GPS • ID The Future • Intelligent Design • Journal of the Royal Society Interface • Life Sciences • limpets • Max Planck Institute • memory • Muscle • Nature (journal) • New Zealand • News • Patella vulgata • penguins • PLOS ONE • PNAS • Thomas Mattern • University of Otago • wildebeest • Winston Ewert

Ants, Wildebeest, Penguins, and More: A Zoo of Animal Designs

7 months ago

Let’s take a different take a look at animals from giant to small that arouse marvel on the superb designs constructed into them. Penguin Feat When you think...

Migration
arctic tern • bar-tailed godwit • bees • cardenolides • circadian clock • copepods • Current Biology • Cyrus Martin • Darwinians • dragonflies • dung beetle • eel • Evolution • flies • free-tailed bats • globe skimmer dragonfly • homing pigeons • Intelligent Design • Johan Bäckman • Kenneth Lohmann • migration • milkweed • Monarch butterflies • moths • News • olfaction • Pacific Salmon • sea turtle • Thomas Alerstam • tuna • whale • zebra • zooplankton

Marvelous Migrations at All Scales

8 months ago

Consider the straightforward causes for animals emigrate forwards and backwards from one space to a different. They could have to search for meals. They could...