Editor’s Selections: Green Slime Monsters, Naked Mole Rats in the Nude, and Termite Mergers
October 22nd, 2009 Editor's Selections 10 CommentsJarrett Byrnes focuses on posts in ecology, environmental sciences, and evolution. He blogs at I’m a chordata, urochordata!
- Forget Red Tides! Conservation Bytes fills us in on recent work determining the secret origins of the Chinese Green Slime .
- This week we were blessed with not one, but two awesome posts about the genitals of naked mole rats.
- Following on the Eusocial trend, new work shows that when termite colonies come together, they go through a merger (much like a business) with a severe re-arrangement of top management.