Good Morning. Welcome to Weirdbeautiful.
This week, the news seems to be full of medical, rather than wildlife stories.
The latest one of interest (to me, at least) is this one about a dramatic rise in the rates of rickets in school children-
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100121/thl-rickets-rise-for-inactive-children-d831572.html
You can find links to other major science news/stories of the week further down this page.
The big wildlife story at the moment is still this one-
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18397-transparent-frogs-tiny-geckos-and-snailsucking-snakes.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
about "Reptiles and Amphibian Ecology International"'s study of wildlife in the western Ecuadoran cloud forest. The scientists found a host of new and unusual animals so it has been all over the news.
For my part, I did an interview yesterday with Prof. Jean-Pol Vigneron of the University of Namur (FUNDP)for Practical Reptile Keeping magazine. Prof. Vigneron has done a great many studies on colouration in various animals- especially insects and has been instrumental in developing a number of products- including coloured paper, paints and glass coatings- from his discoveries- so I had a long talk to him about that. The tortoise beetle above- Charidotella egregia changes colour from transparent to red when threatened and is one of the things that Prof. Vigneron has studied. Image copyright J-P.Vigneron, 2009, all rights reserved.
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