This image gallery brings to focus the splendid vascular systems of common plants, and showcases the beauty that resides at all levels of the natural world. See the entire gallery.

The loss of wetlands in the prairie pothole region of central North America due to a warmer and drier climate will negatively affect millions of waterfowl that depend on the region for food, shelter and raising young, according to research published today in the journal BioScience.

The image you are seeing is the result of a specialized phorid fly laying its egg in the head of a fire ant, which eventually kills its host. This video from Discovery News was posted in 2008, and chronicles one entomologists efforts to combat invasive fire ant populations that originate in Brazil and are spreading throughout the Southern United States.

Portland, Oregon. January, 2010 -- Labgrab.com is announcing the release of a data visualization tool that graphs the current volume of science news by discipline. The colorful chart shows various sized boxes based on the volume of article headlines published by universities, journals, science news aggregators, and science blogs.

How difficult it must be to have to face off as a sperm! From the moment you arrive you are racing along in a wave of competitors. Now complicate that with the fact that your host mammal has been making the rounds! Live together die alone (if you know what that means its our secret) is apparently the biological answer.

We just received a release from the European Space Agency with the first satellite map of Haiti since being devastated by the earthquake.

"A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on 12 January, causing major casualties and damage. The quake was followed by several aftershocks with magnitudes over 5.0.

This European Space Agency (ESA), conference brought together nearly 200 scientists from more than 30 countries.

On December 31st 2009 NASA issued a press release confirming that the Mars Spirit Rover remains trapped in sand on the red planet's surface. According to the press release, "Nine months ago, Spirit's wheels broke through a crusty surface layer into loose sand hidden underneath.

This video is remarkable!  National Geographic contributing photographer Paul Nicklen travels to Antartica and gets in the water with a very large leopard seal. 

Having recently seen a National Geographic write up and short video (read full article for reference links) I wanted to know more about the feral camel's that were brought to Australia. According to the Department of Environment and Conservation of Western Australia the one-humped dromedary camels (Camelus dromedaries), was introduced between 1840 and 1907.