Sketch by Peter Gulsvig, renowned Zartist While I believe this bit of news has been well circulated this week, I wanted to give it the Zooillogix bump. Plus, I can only assume Zooillogix readers only look to our blog for the latest breaking news... thus it would be a great disservice to all 25 of them to leave this unreported. University of Rochester biologists think they've figured out ...

... with bristle scale feathers to grasp tree bark, both taxa co-evolved into short tailed flyers with improved perching rear toe claws but in this "squirrel" which lacks wings is sufficient for gliding from tree to tree. Both from Christopher Taylor's nature blog, Catalogue of Organisms From Zooillogix nature blog: antarctic seals & elephant birth leopard seals weddell seals

... session "Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web". Katie Thompson is a graphic designer, a graduate of University of Alabama in both pure mathematics and English. She blogs on Zooillogix. Brian Switek is a freelance science writer, as student at Rutgers University, a blogger on Laelaps and Dinosaur Tracking and a twitterer. At the conference, Brian will co-moderate ...