We are getting ready to wrap up our study of physical science and I am really looking forward to teaching my first science love... life science!  Wrap your head around what's new in life science!

• Scientists suspect the current Ebola outbreak started with bats that lived in a hollow tree in Guinea. The outbreak's first victim, a two-year-old boy, often played in the tree.
• What has three eyes, breathes through gills, and may help scientists spot new ways to improve organ transplants? An unusual tadpole living in a lab near Boston, Mass.Researchers removed an eye from one tadpole’s head and attached it to the skin of another. Adjusting electric charges in that second tadpole’s cells helped its new, third eye connect to its new body. 
• Make sure the ground is soft before startling Chip. He’s a Tennessee fainting goat at a farm in Newport, R.I. When Chip or other fainting goats get surprised, their muscles freeze up. Then “they just fall over — stiff like a board,” says George Saperstein. He’s a veterinary professor at Tufts University in North Grafton, Massachusetts.

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