How now brown cow: Do you take milk with that? We all know someone with a food disorder, whether it’s Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Celiac Disease (gluten intolerance), wheat intolerance or lactose intolerance.  Lactose intolerance has become far more common in recent times with almost 90-95% of black individuals and 20-25% of white individuals throughout the world showing symptoms for being lactose... 

A pilot, flying a Beechraft Baron G-58 alone, was forced to make an emergency landing after a snake appeared from the dashboard in cockpit and sat around his leg for all of its flight. Braden Blennerhassett was operating the solo cargo flight of Frontier Air on an aircraft Baron G-58 from Darwin airport. He radioed the tower “I’m going to have to return to Darwin. I’ve got a snake... 

Drosophila melanogaster, a male fruit fly chooses to fulfill its physiological demands through alcohol after being deprived of having sex, the study finds. The findings will help to understand the human behavior and cure this addiction. The study revealed that the mating male flies were not attracted towards alcohol despite being exposed to it where as the deprived ones turned to the fruits mixed with... 

According to findings published in Zootaxaby Associate Professor Bryan Fry from The University of Queensland’s (UQ) School of Sea snakes' venom is used in life-saving medicine Biological Sciences, a new specie of sea snake has been discovered in the Gulf of Carpenteria, northern Australia. The new specie Hydrophis donaldii had been earlier not properly surveyed despite it being potentially... 

A chimpanzee which featured in the old Tarzan movies during 1930s, has died at the age of 80, according to the sanctuary where it was living. The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor, Florida announced on its website: “It is with great sadness that the community has lost a dear friend and family member on December 24, 2011,” Its name was Cheetah and has featured in two movies: Tarzan... 

A baby dolphin is lowered into a swimming pool just hours after being rescued. The mammal was discovered by walkers on a beach near the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo. It was suffering from injuries believed to have been caused by a fishing net. There was no sign of its mother. The dolphin is only about ten days old. Richard Tesore, head of the NGO Rescate Fauna Marina, has been caring for... 

Lynn Jones, who worked at Reno-Tahoe International Airport was fired a month ago when she refused to load a pet carrier carrying Lynn Jones with her 3 dogs (Credits:The Reno Gazette-Journal, Marilyn Newton) an ailing dog to the Texas-bound flight. She told that she saw a carrier with a very weak dog with its body covered with sores and worn paws. She thought the dog would die if it got loaded. So she... 

Dinosaurs look huge and fiery animals which would shatter and tear apart anything that came in their way. But would they be eating birds as well? Well three Chinese scientists from Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered evidence of a dinosaur Microraptor Gui whose abdomen was found to contain skeleton of a bird. Jingmai O’Connor, Zhonghe Zhou, and Xing Xu from Chinese Academy of Sciences... 

Estimates regarding the dinosaur T-Rex’s mightiness and growth speed might have been wrong as previous figures underestimated them. This was the conclusion of study carried by British and US scientists. Scientists used computer simulation to determine that their early predictions about its size were wrong. They digitally placed flesh on the skeleton of T-Rex and found that it was 3 times bigger... 

Researchers have found links between fish’s personality and the way it is captured during fishing. In a study carried out at Queen’s University Biological Station, it was found that people fishing near rocky areas or with submerged vegetation are more likely to capture timid fishes whereas open water fishing men will capture bold fishes most likely. The researchers studied the personalities...