Archives: December2009

• PHOTOS: Ten U.S. Species Feeling Global Warming’s Heat

  Climate change is turning up the heat on some of the U.S.’s already threatened species, including ten highlighted by a new Endangered Species Coalition report.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Alcoholic Flies Show Human-like Desperation, Relapses

  Turned into alcoholics for science, fruit flies would seemingly drink almost anything for a buzz and relapsed after going cold turkey—findings that researchers hope might lead to new addiction therapies for humans.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• PHOTOS: “Alien” Jellyfish Found in Arctic Deep

  A naked snail, a brightly colored jellyfish, and a ten-foot-long string of bell-like animals are among the odd discoveries—some only recently described by science—made during a 2005 expedition of the frigid and little-known polar waters.