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nybg: Exciting carnivorous plant news everybody! An unusual aquatic bladderwort last seen on the Isle of Man in 1998 has been rediscovered in a pond. The plant lives in very nutrient poor conditions, and makes up for it by using small sacks (the bladder in the name) to capture tiny aquatic invertebrates like water fleas. The plant is also common to the other British Isles.  Always fun to get introduced to a new carnivorous plant though, isn’t it? ~AR (via BBC News - Carnivorous plant rediscovered in the Isle of Man)

nybg:

Exciting carnivorous plant news everybody! An unusual aquatic bladderwort last seen on the Isle of Man in 1998 has been rediscovered in a pond. The plant lives in very nutrient poor conditions, and makes up for it by using small sacks (the bladder in the name) to capture tiny aquatic invertebrates like water fleas. The plant is also common to the other British Isles.  Always fun to get introduced to a new carnivorous plant though, isn’t it? ~AR

(via BBC News - Carnivorous plant rediscovered in the Isle of Man)

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earthandscience:

 The Malayan Jungle Nymph (Heteropteryx dilatata) is the heaviest stick insect in the world, weighing around 65 grams (but only if we’re talking about a female). The males are much smaller  (4 in.) than the females  (6 in.) and lack the bright green, almost leaf-like appearance taken by the females. Instead, they resemble twigs: skinny, long, and mottled brown in color. Either sex is well equipped to camouflage itself amongst the dense brush of the Malaysian forests they inhabit.

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jenn2d2: The scientists in this new study compared the genetics of the disease-causing bacterium Mycobacterium leprae found in five medieval skeletons from Europe with 11 modern strains. The DNA comparison showed that one type of leprosy found in Europe 1,000 years ago is the same as one present in the Middle East now. This strengthened the view that the disease spread during the Crusades, said Johannes Krause, from the University of Tübingen, Germany, one of the authors of the work. This was a period when Christian armies fought for control of what they called the Holy Land. It remains unclear which direction the disease spread, but “lines of evidence suggest an Asian origin of the disease”, as the earliest evidence of leprosy comes from a 4,000-year old skeleton found in India. “This skeleton can only tell us it was present in Asia around 4,000 years ago, but we do not know where the origin of the disease is,” Prof Krause told BBC News. Another of the medieval strains is similar to one found in the Americas today. This suggests the disease was not something the first American settlers carried with them when they originally migrated from Asia, but is a more recent development that was probably introduced when Europeans colonised the continent, added Prof Krause. (via BBC News - Medieval skeletons give clues to leprosy origins)

jenn2d2:

The scientists in this new study compared the genetics of the disease-causing bacterium Mycobacterium leprae found in five medieval skeletons from Europe with 11 modern strains.

The DNA comparison showed that one type of leprosy found in Europe 1,000 years ago is the same as one present in the Middle East now.

This strengthened the view that the disease spread during the Crusades, said Johannes Krause, from the University of Tübingen, Germany, one of the authors of the work. This was a period when Christian armies fought for control of what they called the Holy Land.

It remains unclear which direction the disease spread, but “lines of evidence suggest an Asian origin of the disease”, as the earliest evidence of leprosy comes from a 4,000-year old skeleton found in India.

“This skeleton can only tell us it was present in Asia around 4,000 years ago, but we do not know where the origin of the disease is,” Prof Krause told BBC News.

Another of the medieval strains is similar to one found in the Americas today. This suggests the disease was not something the first American settlers carried with them when they originally migrated from Asia, but is a more recent development that was probably introduced when Europeans colonised the continent, added Prof Krause. (via BBC News - Medieval skeletons give clues to leprosy origins)

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jennasfawn:

National Tropical Botanical Gardens, Poipu, Kauai

by Joni Lambert