Category Archives: BIODIVERSITY

Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park is One of Most Biodiverse Places on Earth

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

A team of scientists has documented that Yasuní National Park, in the core of the Ecuadorian Amazon, shatters world records for a wide array of plant and animal groups, from amphibians to trees to insects.A single hectare of forest in … Continue reading →

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Evolutionary Surprise: Eight Percent of Human Genetic Material Comes from a Virus

Posted on January 9, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

The study, and an accompanying News & Views article by University of Texas at Arlington biology professor Cédric Feschotte, is published in the journal Nature.The research showed that the genomes of humans and other mammals contain DNA derived from the … Continue reading →

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A TREE ALMOST OLDER THAN DIRT

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

A newly discovered Palmer’s oak (Quercus palmeri) that researchers estimate is over 13,000 years old, making it one of the oldest plants on Earth.Researchers, led by Michael May of the University of California, Davis, found the tree a decade ago … Continue reading →

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Stromatolite :The Original Producers of Oxygen and Oldest Fossils encoding the mysteries of Deep Time

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

Stromatolites are considered the most intriguing fossils that are our window into deep time on earth, the emergence of life, and the eventual evolving of the beautiful life forms from Cambrian to modern time. In broad terms, stromatolites are fossil … Continue reading →