1st staff contributor of the week offering, from Mark Chapman “A light hearted look at wildlife (and also the only good thing to ever come out of the Daily Mail): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5053847/See-40-finalists-Comedy-Wildlife-Photography-Awards.html”
Yet another offering from Mark, so he gets the much-coveted title this week “New species of great ape:
http://www.nature.com/news/newly-discovered-orangutan-species-is-also-the-most-endangered-1.22934” – congratulations and thank you, Mark!
Imogen Gast says “Thought this was pretty cool about a kind of rod/cone hybrid cell found in the eyes of the deep sea fish, Maurolicus. https://qbi.uq.edu.au/article/2017/11/new-twilight-eye-cell-discovered-deep-sea-fish
Full article here: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/11/eaao4709.full” Thank you, Imogen!
Magnus Gorny says “Today I learned about how sexual reproduction works in fungi and thought it was both strange and fascinating. This fungus has over 23,000 sexes and no qualms about it https://www.popsci.com/fungi-sex And a more academic article on sex in fungi: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3310392/” Thank you, Magnus!
Alumnus, Owen Middleton say “An article in Nature Ecology & Evolution has been published which is ‘100 articles every ecologist should read’. How many of them have you read? ://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0370-9” Thank you, Owen! Miss you!
Jack Merrifield thought that you may be interested in an event at ZSL next Tuesday, Reintroductions for saving species https://www.zsl.org/science/whats-on/reintroductions-for-saving-species-%E2%80%93-meet-the-wildlife-movers?dm_i=9GD,58S8B,OWAP0E,K7329,1
This article will probably make you angry – https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/we-dont-need-to-save-endangered-species-extinction-is-part-of-evolution/2017/11/21/57fc5658-cdb4-11e7-a1a3-0d1e45a6de3d_story.html?utm_term=.81d5a989f70b
Plastic pollution http://www.fauna-flora.org/plastic-pollution-our-disposable-life/?platform=hootsuite
Foods of the future http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42066624
Posted By : Judith Lock