A paper just released by Science, and covered in a NASA press release, is causing something of a kerfluffle in the blogosphere. It's about a newly-discovered strain of bacteria that, as far as its discoverers can tell, is substituting arsenic compounds for the phosphates that all previously known lifeforms depend on ( Read more... )

This was pointed out to me by ozraptor4, and really should have immediately followed the Mummichog post, but I was pipped at the post by the psychic octopus.

Whereas Fundulus heteroclitus heteroclitus is one of the most habitat tolerant fish around (apart from that odd blindspot about aquaria ), another Cyprinodontiforme is almost the exact opposite - the ( Read more... )

Zoologger brings us another star - a fish that can survive in water ranging from fresh to three times as salty as seawater, that shrugs off dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls and creosote, and is completely blase about lack of oxygen or the onset of subzero weather.

The Mummichog


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A Survivor In Greenland: A Novel Bacterial Species Is Found Trapped In 120,000-year-old Ice

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