Dunkey's Crappy 20k Dance Party. Feynman 'Fun to Imagine 2: Fire Scientists hail Komodo dragon's virgin birth. A zoo keeper holds one of the five newly hatched Komodo dragons at Chester Zoo.
((Dave Thompson/Associated Press)) A British zoo on Wednesday announced the virgin birth of five Komodo dragons, giving scientists new hope for the captive breeding of the endangered species. In an evolutionary twist, the newborns' eight-year-old mother, Flora, shocked staff at the Chester Zoo in northern England when she became pregnant without ever having a male partner or even being exposed to the opposite sex. "Flora is oblivious to the excitement she has caused but we are delighted to say she is now a mum and dad," said a delighted Kevin Buley, the zoo's curator of lower vertebrates and invertebrates.
"When the first of the babies hatched, we didn't know whether to make her a cup of tea or pass her the cigars. " Zombie Ants Controlled by Fungus. In a bizarre parasitic death sentence, a fungus turns carpenter ants into the walking dead and gets them to die in a spot that's perfect for the fungus to grow and reproduce.
Scientists have no clue how the fungus takes control of the brains of ants so effectively. But a new study in the September issue of the American Naturalist reveals an incredible set of strategies that ensue. The carpenter ants nest high in the canopy of a forest in Thailand, and they trek to the forest floor to forage. CRN4k. Superseded scientific theories. A superseded, or obsolete, scientific theory is a scientific theory that mainstream scientific consensus once commonly accepted but now no longer considers the most complete description of reality, or simply false.
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