News articles tagged with 'juvenile'
Palaeontologist describes large nest of juvenile dinosaurs, first of their genus ever found
— 21 Nov 2011 19:34 | Geology and palaeontologyA nest containing the fossilised remains of 15 juvenile Protoceratops andrewsi dinosaurs from Mongolia has been described by a University of Rhode Island palaeontologist, revealing…
Shark tracking reveals impressive feats of navigation
— 2 Mar 2011 12:49 | BiologySome shark species are able to navigate to specific locations up to 50 km away, a new study published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Animal Ecology has found. Re-analysing…
T. rex more hyena than lion
— 23 Feb 2011 17:34 | Geology and palaeontologyThe ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex has been depicted as the top dog of the Cretaceous, ruthlessly stalking herds of duck-billed dinosaurs and claiming the role of apex predator, much as…
Current violent juvenile treatment methods costly, ineffective, MU researcher finds
— 28 Jan 2011 16:42 | HealthIn a time of shrinking budgets, one University of Missouri professor believes that the current approach to juvenile crime is much too expensive to continue - and he has the numbers…
Mechanisms of juvenile hormone action in insects could help fine tune pesticides
— 4 Jan 2011 19:59 | BiologyJust as raging hormones are part of the process of a child's maturation through the teen years to adulthood, juvenile hormones, a group of insect isoprenoids, play an important role…
Poor start in life need not spell doom in adulthood
— 22 Oct 2010 14:43 | BiologyDoes the environment encountered early in life have permanent and predictable long-term effects in adulthood? Such effects have been reported in numerous organisms, including humans…
Rapid growth in adolescence leads to fewer offspring, UC Riverside biologists find
— 21 Jul 2010 08:51 | HealthUniversity of California, Riverside biologists working on guppies - small freshwater fish that have been the subject of long-term studies - report that rapid growth responses to increased…
Changing Chesapeake Bay acidity impacting oyster shell growth
— 11 Jun 2010 11:09 | EnvironmentAcidity is increasing in some regions of the Chesapeake Bay even faster than is occurring in the open ocean, where it is now recognised that increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide…
Extinct giant shark nursery discovered in Panama
— 18 May 2010 19:53 | Geology and palaeontologyThe six-foot-long babies of the world's biggest shark species, Carcharocles megalodon, frolicked in the warm shallow waters of an ancient shark nursery in what is now Panama, report…
Most states offer HPV vaccinations to girls in juvenile justice system
— 29 Apr 2010 09:34 | HealthNearly all U.S. states offer the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to adolescent girls who have been arrested or detained, according to a new report from The Miriam Hospital and Brown…