Greetings from Westminster, CO, site of the 2010 APS Intersociety Meeting: Global Change and Global Science: Comparative Physiology in a Changing World
<p>A new study led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn College, and the Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont has reconstructed the well-preserved but damaged skull of a great ape species that lived about 12 million years ago. The species, <em>Pierolapithecus catalaunicus,</em> may be crucial to understanding great ape and human evolution.</p>
<p>New research fueled in part by citizen scientists reveals that the meadow spittlebug—known for the foamy, spit-like urine released by its nymphs—can feed on at least 1,300 species of host plants, more than twice the number of any other insect.</p>
WKU biology professor Steve Huskey was approached over a decade ago by another scientist to see if he would be interested in collaborating on a project about chameleons. That project then led Huskey, fellow WKU biology professor Michael Smith and graduate student Kate Denny to a publication this August, which describes their findings of biotremor.