Animal News

New Wet suit:

Australia is very famous for its many shark attacks on surfers. In general thee surfers' wet suits never protected them from sharks and sometimes even attracted sharks since it made surfers look like seals. But the Australians have come up with a simple yet very efficient answer. They have designed a stripped wet suit. In nature, usually, animals with black and white stripes indicates that they are poisonous. These suits have been tested on humans and they worked incredibly well, the sharks wouldn't even get close to it!

An incredible memory! :

The planarian warms have an incredible capability to regrow any body part, including the brain! This is because their body  is stuffed with a huge amount of stem cells. But searchers from Tuft university discovered something something even more incredible: after being decapitated they are able to regrow a brain with all of its memory! The searchers suspect that this is possible because the memory was copied in some of the stem cells.

Titi Monkey

Titi Monkeys' Song

 This magnificent specie of monkey developed  an incredible adaptation. Biologist from the University of St.Andrews and of the University of Neuchatel have this specie for years.  They have discovered that these monkeys emit different pitch cries to indicate different type of predators and their emplacement. Christiane Casar and her team from the university of St.Andrews have tried different experiments. First they placed a stuffed Caracara (one of their predator) in a tree, that made the monkeys make a  A pitch calls. Later  the placed a stuffed Oncilla on the ground, that made the monkeys that saw it make a B pitch calls. When they switch the position of the stiffed animals around and the monkeys caracara was on the ground, the monkeys started with at least four A calls before adding B calls into the mix. If the oncilla was in a tree, the monkeys made one A call before switching to a couple of B calls. They are the fist specie of New World monkeys that developed this survival technique.
And that is how singing saves species ;)

New specie 2013: Olinguito

 It has been 35 years since we had dicovered a new carnivor specie in the Western hemisphere. But this summer, an animal that most could describe as "the cutest looking carnivore ever!" has been identified. It's name is the Olinguito. Dr Helgen. curator of mammals at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC, has studied over 60000 Olinguito remains. Some of those remains were discovered hundreds of yeas ago but only now were they correctly identified thanks to the new DNA identifying techniques.By studying those animals and their traits scientist were able to figure out which type of habbitate they evolved to live in and therefore were Olinguitos come from:
 

 Looking at those adorable meat and fruit eating animals make us think about how vast our planet is and how much we have yet to discover. How many species live in our days that we do not know about?

Evolution

EVOLUTION

 

Charles Darwin was 22 when he went on a boat trip around the world as a naturalist. At that time it was 1831 and in England Church was a very important, God created everything around you as it is and that is all we had to know. But while going on that trip Charles found weird looking, giant bones, shells on mountains, and animal looking bones looking like animals existing but much bigger. When he came back from his trip Charles was so amazed with all he saw that he started studying extremely hard on what he had found, and tried to find answers to all those questions floating in his mind. This is how he had the idea of the Theory of Evolution. The Theory of Evolution explains many things. The first thing that it explains is that species evolve with time to adapt with their changing environment, for the survival of the specie.  This theory states that all species come from a same common specie, as we now think are bacteria. It is like a tree, it starts with a common specie, a common trunk, and then branches of in different adaptations of those species and on and on. Some branches stop but some continue. That is caused by Natural Selection, only the species that can adapt to their environment are  able to survive. Also all animals compete to stay alive, the one that is the slowest or has a bad camouflage gets eaten by a predator, the predator that doesn't hunt well doesn't eat. Evolution happen in a specie over a long period of time. Sometimes alleles are mutated during Miosis. Most of the time does small mutation are useless, minor, but sometimes it helps a specie survive and it is passed on through generation and generations, creating a new specie. Here is a simple video to help you understand how it works.

Sciency Superheros

TERMINATOR:
In a few seconds the face of Terminator 1000, in Terminator 2 , which was shot by a air compressed gun, just goes back together. But would it be possible ? Well it would be possible on some miniature spheres on the top of the skin hold a bit of a liquid that is filled with a chemical that reacts with the material and recovers the whole and soldifies. The only inconvenient is that it only works once it is not a reusable material. But what does it have to do with real life? If scientist where able to make this type of mini spheres with a real cicatrising liquid, they would make a great pouder that could make you face look perfectly smooth and with a great tint.

New Science Technology

Buzz's Suit

In 2017 all American astronaut will be wearing this suit, very similar to the one shown on Buzz in the Toy Story movies.  The back metal part is used to make entering the space shuttle quicker. Then it is also very flexible which is usefull for the astronauts whom take samples and run while enjoying the different gravitational pull.   GO BUZZ!

The new cool technology/ video game? The Illumi Room! Instead of only having to look at your tv screen you will also have to look at the different graphics projected on the walls of the room.  The machine will use the Kinnect camera to cartography the room and a projector. Depending on the game it will also be able to give you a speed impression. It will feel like we were transported into the video game. Good luck figuring out when it is reality and when it's not! :) 

 

Dolphin Murder on the cost of Mexico

Since january 2012 several bodies of dead dolphins were found on the beaches. But those deaths had nothing natural, three of them died being shot  as we found bullet marks on the corpses. One was found without a jaw, one found with its tail cut of, one with strange legions and finally one was found with hit in the head with a screw driver. A whole squad from the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is now on the case but now we already have a few ideas of whom the culpable might be the daulphins often come to sailor boats and eat their fish while in the fishing nets and the sailors from there have a history of shooting dauphin or even some throwing bombs at them. But those fisherman aren't the only copables,tourist boats feed the dolphins and the dolphins get used to it s o they go near fishing boat and get killed. Other wise the other cases of dead dolphins as the  one with the tale cut seemed to have died of natural causes and have been hurt after their death. But that still leaves one case: The screwdriver Case. This is still unsolved so better wait until the opinion of our NOAA agents to tell us what they think of this mysterious case.