A juvenile tick trapped in a 15-million- to 20-million-year-old piece of amber contains a bacterium that could be the oldest documented ancestor of the microbe that causes Lyme disease -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The influence of fathers on their teenage children has long been overlooked. Now researchers are finding surprising ways in which dads make a difference -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Sometimes research into one question reveals the answer to another. In July 2012 Catherine Hughes and Julie Broken-Brow, students at the University of Queensland in Australia, were in Papua New... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Imagine a safari in your neighborhood. Instead of a few days hauling luggage through international airports, though, picture a leisurely five minute stroll from the front door. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Regular readers of Tet Zoo might know that I've published extensively on the theropod dinosaurs of a famous and much-studied Lower Cretaceous rock unit known as the Wealden Supergroup. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com