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Today, amongst all living snakes, only male boas and pythons keep vestiges of limbs: two tiny spurs located near their cloaca, used for gripping the female while having sex. But snakes evolved from legged reptiles, like monitor lizards, with which they share some traits (like similar tongues and venom) about 150 Ma a... |
11 April 2008
03:00 GMT |
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When this girl was born in a poor village in Bihar (northern India), the locals regarded her as the reincarnation of the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. That's why the girl was named Lakshmi. Lakshmi had attracted the attention of people eager to gain money from her deformity: a circus even tried to... |
26 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Over 90 % of the amputees report severe pain in the "phantom" limb, in many cases a sensation that the arm or leg is not correctly positioned. The pain can be excruciating and common painkiller drugs do almost nothing. Researches have showed that a mirror 'tricking' the mind that lost limb is still there co... |
26 November 2007
06:14 GMT |
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Salamanders amaze us with their ability of regrowing limbs, but till we are able to do the same with our own limbs based on the salamanders' model, their relatives, the frogs, are on the way of delivering us a drug for correcting nasty facial scars. This would be the result of a team's research at Mancheste... |
20 November 2007
06:48 GMT |
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When this child was born in Bihar (northern India), many villagers regarded her as the reincarnation of the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. And the girl received this name, Lakshmi.But Lakshmi Tatma is not a supernatural being; on the contrary, she was born with a headless, undeveloped parasitic twin joi... |
7 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Up until now, humans were able to regenerate limbs only in science fiction and children movies. But for a salamander, this is as simple as for a lizard to regenerate its tail, a trait that has fascinated humans for a long time, but which has remained unexplained. Now, a new research shows that one molecule could be t... |
2 November 2007
04:42 GMT |
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The 'phantom limb' may sound more familiar to you. Amputees still feel their missing limb. But what about the phantom penis syndrome? It characterizes post-operative heterosexual and transsexual men who have removed penises due to cancer or trans-sex surgeries. A team at the University of California in San ... |
30 October 2007
20:26 GMT |
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You fertilize a plantation to grow bigger and have more fruits, tubers, leaves and so on. But frogs around get "fertilized" too, developing horrific deformities. Nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizers and animal waste leaking into lakes and ponds are the cause of this phenomenon. They boost the populations of a par... |
28 September 2007
06:12 GMT |
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A soldier's main enemy is his own backpack. The same issue is faced by hikers, firefighters and other heavy load carriers, often over rough terrain, where vehicles cannot enter. Hauling is not an option, as it decreases mobility.A team at M.I.T. Media Lab's Biomechatronics Group has made an exoskeleton that... |
24 September 2007
08:23 GMT |
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You may have heard about cats with "wings", two-headed tortoises, snakes, piglets and even humans, extra-limbed lambs, pigs, deer, cows or humans, but this is far odder: a footed shark. This is extremely weird as sharks do not have and never had feet in their whole evolution. Maybe one day, the Great White will be ru... |
15 August 2007
13:51 GMT |
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A Great White may not be gentle enough to tickle you under the chin before applying its deadly bite, but our finger and toes sprouted from what could be called a 500 million years genetic cookbook that sharks still possess, as found by a team at the University of Florida.While investigating development in shark embry... |
15 August 2007
05:59 GMT |
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The "dinosaur" of all living fishes is the coelacanth from the Indian Ocean. Scientists have been investigating the coelacanth, whose ancestors gave rise to amphibians (and due to further evolution to us) to understand the origin of our limbs. But a newly found 400 million-year-old fossilized fin from an odd primitiv... |
1 August 2007
02:41 GMT |
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This is an extremely rare case: a 23-year-old woman has given birth to a four-legged baby girl at the Lebowakgomo Hospital in Polokwane (Limpopo, north of Pretoria). The little girl came into this world at 6.20am yesterday.Dr Elizabeth Reji, head of the neonatal unit at the hospital, said that during the initial mome... |
6 July 2007
14:11 GMT |
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Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) together with the sturgeons are the only survivors of a primitive group of fish which evolved earlier than 200 million years ago, before the emergence of the dinosaurs. This primitivism puts them closer to a basal evolutionary knot. Indeed, now they have come with a specific pattern of ... |
24 May 2007
03:38 GMT |
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