This is a rehash of a question I originally wrote on Skeptics which got moved to Physics, but I'm really after an answer from a biological perspective. A device called the E-Kaia is making news by
Currently there is a campaign to eradicate the European Starling from North America because of its threat to other species. Are there actual data regarding the extent of the ecological risk to native
In this answer on aviation.SE a comparison is made between the shapes of airplanes wings and the shapes of birds wings. It concludes with the following remark: After all, no bird has winglets. N…
Los anfibios no se encuentran en el medio marino, solo en agua dulce y en tierra. El nombre del grupo, anfibios (del griego, anfibios en ambos lados + bios = vida), se dio porque la mayoría de sus representantes tienen la fase larval acuática y la respiración branquial (recuerde renacuajos) y una fase adulta. , de respiración pulmonar y cutánea, que habita en el ambiente terrestre húmedo.
The word fungus comes from the Latin word for mushroom. Edible mushrooms, yeasts, black mold, and Penicillium notatum (the producer of the antibiotic penicillin) are all members of the kingdom Fungi, which belongs to the domain Eukarya. As eukaryotes, a typical fungal cell contains a true nucleus and many membrane-bound organelles.