Cheetahs-The fastest land animals reaching to a speed of 75 mph (120 kph), currently regarded as one of the endangered species of cats in the world.The cheetah lineage is a group of large, slender, and long-limbed cats with a distinctive skull and dental morphology, of which only the extant cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is present today.The lineage of cheetahs show some very special characters in having abbreviated, tall, and domed crania.
Per Christiansena and Ji H. Mazák reperted a new discovery of a Late Pliocene specimen from China in online edition of …

A jet fuel made from the jatropha plant was used to run a boeing 747 from Air New Zealand and considered it to be a milestone in commercial aviation industry.It comes as a great news for airline industry and also considered to be environmentally friendly.This was the first time fuel produced from a Jatropha plant was used to power a jet engine ,which was mixed with equal proportions of conventional jet fuel in the test run.

As we have already seen special tributes paid to Charles Darwin,by top journals through “15 evolutionary gems”(Nature Journal) and “Darwin’s Gift”(Lancet Journal) and now New Scientist also makes its TOP TEN EVOLUTION articles available freely for its readers.Its heartening to see the effort put in by various people to celebrate Darwin’s 200th Birthday and spreading more awareness in general public about Theory of Natural selection for Evolution.

GraphPad Software,which established in 1984 has been dedicated to creating software exclusively for the international scientific community.They provide some excellent tools to simplify data analysis, statistics and graphing.GraphPad Software was founded by its president, Dr. Harvey Motulsky ,who is a researcher in receptor pharmacology and also teaches Biostats to graduate students.website of Graphpad offers both premium products and also some very useful free resources like online calculators.

It will be all Charles Darwin this year,as it happens to his 200th Birth anniversary and “Origin of species” completes 150 years. Recently Nature Journal came out with “15 Evolutionary gems” as a tribute to Charles Darwin’s theory of Natural selection for Evolution and Lancet another leading journal also paid tribute to great Charles Darwin by releasing a special issue on Evolution called “Darwin’s Gifts”,to commemorate the two specials events in evolution this year.

Year 2009 holds a special place in the field of Evolution as it celebrates 200 years of Charles Darwin’s Birth(12 February 2009) and 150 years of Publication of one of the greatest books “Origin of species”(24 November 2009).To celebrate these events and to create more awareness among the general public by providing evidence for evolution by natural selection,the editors of Nature(Henry Gee, Rory Howlett and Philip Campbell) came out with a compilation of some great examples of evolution.These enlightening examples were part of Nature’s issue during the last decade,which displays …

The mystery of why giant Dinosaurs suddenly became extinct can find some answers,with the discovery of major fossil field ,unearthing more that 7600 bones from Eastern part of China. Zhucheng in Shandong province is known locally as “dinosaur city” and has been in news for last 50 years for several important findings.But scientists believe this discovery ,which dates back to late Cretaceous period which is around the time when dinosaurs became extinct might helps to understand why why the creatures died out.