What’s been on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras…

Monday January 14

Dinosaurs of the Day – Baryonix, Bristol, more / Songs about science / Giant cloud of gas will clobber Milky Way / Inaugural Antarctic passenger flight

Tuesday January 15

Zoo buys snake for $5,000 a metre / Solar cycle update – Ulysses visits pole / Dinosaur of the Day: Pregnant-teenager-o-saurus / ‘Priceless’ illegal fossils returned to China

Wednesday January 16

Whaling fight turns ugly / Sesame Street Science / All hail the super carrot! / Your senator’s view on science

Thursday January 17

Messenger un-masks mysterious Mercury / NASA’s amazing flying space observatory / Where has the Yangtze gone? / Starfish eat heart out of ‘coral triangle’ / Parasite turns ants into tasty looking berries / Congress criticizes delay of polar bear decision

Friday January 18

Pope pulls out / Save the gharial! / Black sheep really are bad

Other Nature blog posts you may have missed

The Niche: Chimeras are coming

Action Potential: Monkeys master mental math

Climate Feedback: Making biofuels sustainable

Ones that got away

How birds’ blood records oil spills, from the BBC

Is the Japanese cranes under threat?, in the Yomiuri Shimbun

Great feature on Alzheimer’s, from the Chicago Tribune