Life

Fundamental question on how life started solved, 5/10/11; Health Ranger unveils The God Within documentary, exposes the false philosophical foundations of modern science, 5/11/11; Scientists make first step towards bringing life to inorganic matter, 9/15/11; Giant "Amoebas" Found in Deepest Place on Earth, 10/26/11; Alien world discovered in Antarctic deep-sea vents, 1/3/12; 200,000-Year-Old Patch of Seagrass Is the World's Oldest Living Organism, 2/8/12; Found: The Oldest Animal Ever on Planet Earth, 2/10/12; Future zoos could have living mammoths and dinosaurs, 2/20/12; Russians regenerate flowering plant from 30,000-year-old frozen burrow of Ice Age squirrel, 2/21/12; Flatworms could hold key to immortality, 2/28/12; Meteorites Reveal Another Way to Make Life's Components, 3/12/12; Scientists to bring extinct woolly mammoth back to life with the help of elephants, 3/13/12; Strange Organism Has Unique Roots in the Tree of Life, 4/29/12
Biology: Gale Encyclopedia of Biology^; Life - Science of Biology, 7th ed^; McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Bioscience^; New Penguin Dictionary of Biology 8th ed^; Penguin Dictionary of Biology^; Reference; Life: Just Add Water; Scientists Watch Grass Grow, at the Cellular Scale, 6/14/10; Oldest Animal Life on Earth Found?, 8/17/10; Why Fish Don't Freeze In The Arctic Ocean, 8/27/10; World's oldest living things; Baby Born From 20-Year-Old Frozen Embryo, 10/11/10; Bounty of new species found in oceans, 10/3/10; Arsenic-Eating Bacteria Opens New Possibilities for Alien Life, 12/2/10; Arsenic Based Life at Mono Lake, 12/4/10; 34,000-Year-Old Organisms Found Buried Alive!, 1/6/11; Giant crayfish found in Tennessee is new species, 1/19/11; Plant or Animal? Mysterious Fossils Defy Classification, 2/16/11; Fruit flies can detect heavy hydrogen, 2/16/11; Invasion of the Body Snatching Algae, 4/5/11; Rapid evolution in domestic animals sheds light on the genetic changes underlying evolution, 12/30/11; Biochemistry: Academic Press Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry^; Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2nd ed^; Encyclopedia of Bioprocess Technology - Fermentation, Biocatalysts, and Bioseparation^; Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology^; Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology^
DNA: Spontaneous DNA, the Rapture, and the Rise to Fourth Density, 9/9/7; Telepathic properties; 528 Hz, the frequency for transformation and DNA repair, 5/28/8; Does DNA contain our Consciousness?, 10/10/10; DNA barcoding aims to protect species, food, 10/29/10; Len Horowitz: DNA is a Torsion Field Antenna; Mammoth 'could be reborn in four years'; White House Gives Go-ahead For Elitists to Control DNA, 12/20/10; DNA Molecules Can 'Teleport,' Nobel Winner Says, 1/16/11; A Search Engine for the Human Body, 3/11/11; UNC researchers identify seventh and eighth bases of DNA, 7/28/11; Genetics: A Dictionary of Genetics 7th ed^; Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders^; Sex: Chinese Fruit Bats like fellatio; This Tree's a Lady!, 2/4/10; Why it's OK for birds to be gay, 8/23/10; 10 Surprising Sex Statistics; Booty Call: How to Spot a Fertile Woman, 10/17/10
Agutter & Wheatley: About Life, Concepts in Modern Biology, 2007^; Betsy & Keogh: Microbiology Demystified^; Vincent Courtillot: Evolutionary Catastrophes - Science of Mass Extinction^; Roger Lewin: Human Evolution - An Illustrated Introduction, 5th ed^; Pojeta & Springer: Evolution and the Fossil Record^; Radu Popa: Between Necessity and Probability^; Tara Rodden Robinson: Genetics For Dummies^; Erwin Schrodinger: What Is Life^; Niall Shanks: God, the Devil & Darwin^; Gina Smith: Genomics Age^; James Watson: Double Helix^

Human Body: Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution^; Human body facts; Useful Appendix; What the length of your index finger says about you, 12/3/10; Incredible close-up pictures of the Human Eye, 12/30/10; Man as Industrial Palace; Becker & Selden: Body Electric^; Feneis & Dauber: Pocket Atlas of Human Anatomy^

Nature: eNature Field Guides; Water Level 8m - a movie about a peaceful annual high tide, 6/15/10
Plants: MacMillan - Plant Sciences^; Magill's Encyclopedia of Science - Plant Life^; Amazing and hidden life of plants; Rat-eating plant discovered in Philippines, 8/17/9; Oldest Living Trees, 3/1/10; Can Plants Think?, 7/15/10; Carnivorous Plant Snaps Shut With 600 Gs, 2/16/11; Old trees 'important for forests', 3/15/11; Green monster - Dangerous giant weed on the loose, 7/6/11; Giant fungus discovered in China, 8/1/11; Hidden soil fungus, now revealed, is in a class all its own, 8/16/11; Booming bamboo: The next super-material?, 4/3/12
Flowers & Gardens: My Friend; Life of Flowers
Lyall Watson: Supernature^; Peter Tomkins: Secret Life of Nature^; again; Secret Life of Plants

Animals: Encyclopedia of Animal Science^; Gale Encyclopedia of Endangered Species 2nd ed^; Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia 2nd ed^; Macmillan Animal Sciences^; Longman's Animal Classification^; all-creatures.org: Working for a Peaceful World; Compassion Circle; Free Endangered Species Ringtones; Hilarious British animal voiceovers; Unknown carnivore discovered in Madagascar lake, 10/10/10; When Animals Resist, 5/25/11; Top 10 Most Dangerous Animals In The World, 8/4/11; ‘A Toad-Eat-Toad World,’ and Other Tales of Animal Cannibals, 10/31/11; Safe way for animals to cross the road, 12/11

Mammals: Researchers greatly improve evolutionary Tree of Life for mammals, 9/23/11
Badgers: Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger
Bats: How vampire bats find blood, 8/3/11
Cats: Probably the Funniest Cat Video You'll Ever See, 1/12/7; Catcerto; Standing Cat; Hercules - World’s Largest Big Cat; photo; Cute Cats Playing; Simon's Cat; Klepto Kitty; Kitten vs. the Scary Thing; How to Open a Tupperware Container When You Only Have Paws; Klepto Kitty, 2/16/11; Kitten vs. green apples, 7/10/11
Chimpanzees: Chimps deal with death like humans do, researchers say, 4/26/10; Chimpanzees found to give birth in much the same way as humans, 6/10/11; Cheetah the chimp from 1930s Tarzan flicks dies, 12/28/11
Cows: Germany Calls Off Hunt for Fugitive Cow, 8/29/11
Dogs: What if dogs ruled?; Smartest Dog Ever Can Pick Out 1,022 Toys By Name, 12/22/10; Chimps 'mourn their dead infants', 1/31/11; Useful Dog Tricks performed by Jesse; Video shows enraged Chihuahua attacking robbers, 7/19/11; Surfin' USA; Original Motorcycle Dog; Free running sled dogs
Elephants: Live Elephant Birth; Elephant on a Trampoline; painting (self-portrait?); Elephant Artist; elephant art & conservation project; Simon Hunt: A Charming Tale Of A Search For Truth; Hotel Lobby on Migration Trail; Lucky Elephants; Elephants Never Forget - Undercover Ringling video; Echo: An Elephant to Remember, 10/17/10; Baby elephant rescued; Prince: I Love My Pool!, 7/26/11; Elephants Reunited After 20 Years; 2011 a 'horrible year for elephants', 12/29/11
Elk: Showdown In Elk Town, 2/25/11
Gorillas: Gorilla Reunion; Face to face with gorillas, 1/2/12
Horses: First Openly Gay Racehorse; Horse & Ball , 8/17/10
Lions: Ethiopian girl reportedly guarded by lions, 6/21/5
Loris: Tickling Slow Loris; again
Mammoths: Mammoths Were Alive More Recently Than Thought, 12/16/9; Sightings of living woolly mammoths, 3/20/11; World's Smallest Mammoth Discovered, 5/8/12
Mastodons: Builders unearth 2million-year-old skull and tusks of elephant's ancient relative, 3/25/11
Rats: African crested rat uses poison trick to foil predators, 8/3/11
Wolves:Wolf That Changed America 11/27/8; again; TRUTH ABOUT THE WOLVES, 2/9/10

Dolphins: Learn to 'walk on water', 10/22/10; Researchers seek to communicate with dolphins using new language, 5/13/11; Dolphins offer insight into fast wound healing, 7/27/11; New Study Suggests Dolphins 'Talk' Like Humans, 9/7/11
Whales: Closer than you thought, 6/23/10; Giant predatory whale named for 'Moby Dick' author, 6/30/10; Sperm Whale Sighting, 6/11/11; Saving Valentina, 6/13/11; Princess of whales: How a naked female scientist tries to tame belugas in the freezing Arctic, 6/16/11; Humpback Whale Puts On Show For Men Who Saved Her, 7/14/11; Orcas, not sharks, the dominant predator off Vancouver Island coast, 9/4/11; A Sperm Whale Encounter, 3/29/12; Shamu Show; Whales' signals reveal retreat from ill-fated oil rig, 4/6/12

Birds: For Bird Lovers from Berkshire, NY; Too Many; Parahawking Over Nepal; Gigantic Birds Walked the Earth During Dinosaur Age, 8/10/11; Primitive birds shared dinosaur fate, 9/21/11
Crows: Crowboarding: Russian roof-surfin' bird caught on tape, 1/12/12; again, 1/16/12
Eagles: Hornby Island Eagle cam;
Geese: Goose Named Maria, 2/28/11
Hummingbirds: Hummingbird high speed camera; High-Speed Video Shows How Hummingbirds Really Drink, 5/2/11; Hand Feeding; Rare Albino Hummingbird
Lyrebirds: Lyrebird
Owls: Eagleowl, 6/16/9; again; Albuquerque residents claim giant owls are eating their pets, 11/7/11
Penguins: Flying Penguins, 3/31/8; Penguin Goes Shopping
Pigeons: Magnetic sense: Scientists discover why pigeons' have innate homing abilities, 4/28/12
Ravens: A raven knows exactly what it's doing
Robins: Robin family
Starlings: 10 million Starlings create the most astonishing aerial display in nature; Murmuration of Starlings; Starlings form a flipping amazing dolphin in the dusky sky... being chased by an open-mouthed killer whale, 11/19/11

Crocodiles: Man swims with 17 foot Crocodile, 8/17/9; Man and croc the best of friends, 1/21/11; Man's Best Friend... A 17ft Long Pet Crocodile, 6/12/11; Giant crocodile captured alive in Philippines, 9/6/11; Diving with Crocodiles, 10/3/11
Snakes: Leviathan 'Yacumama' Anaconda Found in Peruvian Jungle; X-rays reveal hidden leg of an ancient snake, 2/7/11

Dinosaurs: Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals^; Found alive - Two dinosaur species in Papua New Guinea; Pterosaur type creature; It's a girl! ... pterodactyl, that is, 1/20/11; Live baby dinosaur discovered in New Zealand; Dinosaurs survived 700 millennia after asteroid impact; again; How Dinosaurs Got So Huge, 4/13/11; Rise of the flying reptiles, 7/18/11; T-Rex of the sea unearthed in Manitoba, 7/19/11; Fossil 'suggests plesiosaurs did not lay eggs', 8/11/11; 'Dinosaur eggs' discovered in Chechnya, 4/19/12

Frogs: Ultra-tiny frogs discovered living like faeries inside pitcher plants, 8/25/10; Toads: Scientists could use toads to predict earthquakes, 12/6/11

Fish: Flying Silver Carp on the Wabash River; Flamboyant Cuttlefish, A Rare Color-Changing Creature, 11/20/11; How the puffer fish gets you high, zombifies you, and kills you, 1/27/12; Sharks: 100,000 sharks mass off Florida's beaches, 2/2/11; Nina Salerosa; 'Otherworldly' shark caught off La Paz, Mexico, baffles scientists, 6/27/11; 2000-Pound Shark Caught Off Mexico Coast Could Be Longest Great White Spotted, 4/23/12; Pacific Reef Sharks Vanishing Near Populated Islands, 4/27/12

Invertebrates: Shapeshifting Octopus, 7/17/8; Octopus crawls out of water and walks on dry land, 11/23/11; Alien or Jellyfreak? Deep-sea monster vid whips up storm, 5/12/12

Bugs: Extreme close-ups of the creepy crawlies that infest our homes, 8/3/10; Insects: Would dew believe it: The stunning pictures of sleeping insects covered in water droplets, 3/31/10; Japanese Giant Hornets: World's most dangerous insect?; Monarch butterflies use medicinal plants to treat diseases in their offspring, 10/21/10; Ants: Fire Ant Secret: How They Create Life-Saving Rafts in Floods, 4/25/11; Things Fire Ants Behave Like: Gore-Tex, a Liquid, a Woven Material, and a Waterproof Raft, 4/26/11; Deadly super ants invade Australia, 8/28/11; Hairy, crazy ants invade from Texas to Miss., 10/3/11; Bees: Maurice Maeterlinck: Life of the Bee^; pdf; Teenage bee keeper on a mission to save the bees from colony collapse disorder, 1/14/12; Mosquitos: Malarial Mosquitoes Are Evolving Into New Species, 10/27/10; Wasps: Angry Wasps Capture Intruding Ants, Fly Away, Airdrop Them, 3/29/11; Spiders: Possibility of the existence of the Congolese giant spider

Worms: Worms from Hell? Deepest Multicellular Life Found, 6/1/11

Enemies: Couger vs. Bear; Battle at Kruger, 5/3/7; again (Jean-Jacques Annaud); Zebra beats Lion; Lion, Buffalo & Crocodile; Dear Hunting with Golden Eagle; Eagle & Goat; Collaboration of Dolphins, Sharks and Birds; Cat chases off bear

Friends: Gregory Colbert: Bliss Here; Dog & Duck; Monkey & Pigeon; Leopard & Baby Baboon; again; Dolphin & Humpback; Polar Bear & Sled Dog; Crow & Kitten; Lion Whisperer; Cat Adopts Baby Squirrels, 2/6/9; Suriya & Roscoe; Beluga whale saved a stricken diver's life by pushing her to the surface; Doug Seus and Little Bart, 10/3/9; Orangutan & the Hound Dog; Orangutan & Dog; Face to Face with Leopard Seal; Dog Falls For Cat; Man & Hippo; Man & Crocodile; How to cuddle with an elephant seal; Odd Couple at Tennessee Sanctuary; Pigeon & Bunnies; Swoozie the monkey stuns zoo visitors by making friends with a toad... and carrying him around for a whole day, 8/3/10; Dog And Human Baby; Porcupine who thinks he is a puppy!; Dog Swims Daily with a Dolphin, 8/28/10; Dog saved by Dolphin; Labrador & Dolphin; Why Can’t We Be Friends? Top 10 Interspecies BFF Videos, 10/4/10; Guy and baby humingbird friend; Lioness and a man with her newborn cubs; Baby Monkey (Going Backwards On A Pig); Dolphins save Doberman Pinscher stranded on sandbar, 3/3/11; Cat On Boat Plays With Dolphins, 4/11/11; Cat and owl playing; Pitbull vs kitten; Cat On Boat Plays With Dolphins

Mysterious Creatures: Loch Ness Monster of Alaska?, 7/19/11; Lair of the Beasts: Monster Hot-Spots, 10/1/11; Bigfoot/ Yeti: Observed at Fort Stewart, 10/9/10; Lair of the Beasts: Seeking the Indian Bigfoot, 10/23/10; India Bigfoot, 10/26/10; Sasquatch: The Best Evidence; Yeti, a severed finger spirited from Nepal, and a famous film star. DNA tests will finally solve a truly bizarre mystery, 12/27/11; Chupacabras:Chupacabra and Mangy Coyotes, 11/6/10; 'Kraken' Sea Monster: Lair of Ancient 'Kraken' Sea Monster Possibly Discovered, 10/10/11; again, 10/12/11; Loch Ness Monster: Debate over Loch Ness monster authenticity flares up; Sea Serpents: Lair of the Beasts Sea Serpent Files, 12/25/10; Leviathan sea monster fossil found in ancient Peruvian seabed, 2/15/11

Special Traits: The World's Only Immortal Animal; Itsy Bitsy Spider's Web 10 Times Stronger Than Kevlar, 9/24/10
Speedy Creatures: Sheila Patek clocks the fastest animals; Fastest Animals On Earth In Slow Motion; Fastest Creature on Earth , 3/9/10

Sentience: Sentient Beings; 8 Non-Human Tool Users; Chimp vs Human Memory Test; Clever Octopus Builds a Mobile Home, 12/14/9; Chimps use cleavers and anvils as tools, 12/24/9; Dolphins as Persons, 1/7/10; Moscow’s stray dogs, 1/16/10; Prairie dogs have a language all of their own and 'can describe what humans look like', 1/21/11; Amazing animals that talk back to you, 3/5/11; Amazing photos of Kanzi the bonobo lighting a fire and cooking a meal; Kanzi, the ape who HAS learned the secret of man's red fire and loves nothing more than a good fry-up, 12/30/11; Stone-Throwing Chimp Thinks Ahead, 5/10/12