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| AskMen.com |
How Did Laughter Evolve? While human laughter sounds much different from the ape versions, its distinctive features could well have arisen from shared ancestral traits.   |
Popular Mechanics
June 2009
Joe P. Hasler |
Hoof Specialist: This Is My Job Farriers have been shoeing horses for two thousand years, but none have done the job quite like Ian McKinlay. |
Outside
October 2008
Justin Nyberg |
Wilder Kingdom A legendary animal showman says he's going to reinvent the zoo. Too bad his vision sounds a lot like the circus. |
Popular Mechanics
July 22, 2008
Erin McCarthy |
3 Next-Gen Animal Prosthetics Build Perfect Beasts Scientists believe outfitting disabled animals with prosthetics can maintain biodiversity and help save endangered species. Here are the tales of three lucky patients. |
Popular Mechanics
March 12, 2008
Erin McCarthy |
Super-Size Surgery at Next-Gen Zoo Could Halt Elephant Killings Utilizing fiberoptic instruments to permanently sterilize free-ranging elephants will help manage the population of elephants and prevent the need to kill them. |
Real Travel Adventures
March 2008
Antonio Graceffo |
Saving the Crocodiles The Philippine island of Palawan is home to a number of rare and interesting animals. Unfortunately, illegal logging and poaching has placed many on endangered lists. Now, groups have established a crocodile conservancy to study and protect these reptiles. |
Reason
January 2008
Ronald Bailey |
Buzz Kill Researchers have found an acute paralysis virus present in 96% of collapsed honeybee hives, dispelling theories of biotech crops and cell phones causing the insect's demise. |
Wired
January 18, 2008
Daniel Dumas |
The Best: Extinct Animals, From an Elephant Bird to a 10-Foot-Long, 4-Eyed Spider Carcharodon megalodon... Arthropleura armata... Meganeura monyi... Aepyornis maximum... Elasmotherium sibiricum... Gigantopithecus blacki... Jaekelopterus rhenaniae... Shonisaurus sikanniensis... Doedicurus clavicaudatus... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2007
Paul Tolme |
Wildlife CSI: Inside the Case of the Poisoned Meatballs Crime labs investigate illegal killings of endangered species. |
Science News
September 29, 2007 |
Science Safari: Not Your Ordinary Amphibians Caecilians are legless amphibians, and along with deep sea fishes are among the least well known vertebrates on the planet. |
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