Zoology News

Two endangered turtles will call the Oregon Zoo home for most of 2010, until they're released into the wilds of the Columbia River Gorge.

" Cosimo, a specialty book publisher in New York, joins in celebrating the recent opening of the new International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine by releasing cryptozoology classic books selected by its museum curator, leading cryptozoologist, and author Loren Coleman.

About 20 members of WSU's Zoology Club met on Wednesday in Eastlick Hall, hoping to gain insight into the intriguing, challenging and sometimes dangerous life of a zookeeper.

A glowing, eerily beautiful image of a water flea with its radiant green "crown of thorns" took top prize in the 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, the world's foremost forum for showcasing microscope photos and movies of life science subjects.

Have you ever sung like a bat? No? Well, this next week Pre K - 3rd grade students in Navarro County will learn with Lucas Miller, the "Singing Zoologist.

Yes, it's a penis bone. A walrus' penis bone, no less. The very largest in the animal kingdom.

By LAURA CUMMINGS AN 87-YEAR-OLD disabled grandfather today told how he has been burgled around a dozen times in the last three years a ' by the same thief.

Halloween movies: 'Cat People,' 'The Body Snatcher,' 'The Haunting,' two versions of 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

Cockroaches, termites, ants and other insects that torment Texas and other regions around the globe could be walking on a slippery slope soon if scientists at Cambridge University in England have their way.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: This little brown and yellowish orange spider has mistaken a city house at Maruthankuzhy for a moist deciduous forest.

A breakthrough by scientists at CambridgeUniversitymay terminate the threat of termites, cockroaches and other pests such as ants and locusts - responsible for billions of pounds worth of damage to homes, crops and people's health across the globe each year.

A resident's sighting of an unfamiliar reptile playing dead in his driveway has led to the first recorded sighting of an Eastern hog-nosed snake in the state.

Eighty years ago, Bhilaru Pumping Station in Mussoorie, a short walk from The Mall Road tourist hubbub, was a hotspot for butterflies.

Main German zoologist born October 7, 1822, Helmstedt, Germany died February 6, 1898, Leipzig German zoologist and teacher who initiated the modern science of parasitology.

Sirocco the Kakapo has become a global star after he was caught on camera mating with a zoologists head on a BBC programme.

BRIT explorers claim they have spotted a legendary ape man believed to inhabit an island jungle - and snapped its footprints.

25, 1866, Lexington, Ky., U.S. died Dec. 4, 1945, Pasadena, Calif. Main American zoologist and geneticist, famous for his experimental research with the fruit fly by which he established the chromosome theory of heredity.

Veronica, a resident of Sugar Grove and a 15-year-old Kaneland High School sophomore, joined 130 other high school students who participated in the Youth Volunteer Corps at the Brookfield Zoo this year.

Pioneer folk singer Sam Hinton loved to do many things, and he did them all in spite of the fact that few people had ever heard of a folk-singing zoologist/illustrator/writer/lecturer. Whether it was performing at school assemblies and concerts, recording music, illustrating marine life or serving as curator of the Scripps Aquarium, Mr.

Zoologists are celebrating after a pair of rare four-eyed fish were born at their aquarium.