Posts tagged: biology

Shark Dissection

Recently, the South Carolina Aquarium Teen Science Café held a café all about SHARKS! Using jaws, teeth, specimens, and real sharks, Biologist Bryan Frazier from the Department of Natural Resources, talked about his career work with sharks' biology and anatomy. He talked the research that is currently being conducted with sharks. He dissected two Atlantic Sharpnose sharks, one

Bioengineering Café

Biology and engineering can be a difficult lesson to get across in a short period.

How do Cells get in Shape?

How Do Cells Get in Shape? What gives the wide variety of plant and animal cells their unique shapes? And once a cell is formed, can it change its shape? On Friday, March 18th, 2016, the Saint Louis Science Center site of the Gateway Teen Science Café node in St. Louis, Missouri, held a Teen Science Café centered around the

African Forest Elephants

How do you study an animal difficult to see? African Forest Elephants are the largest land animals, yet surprisingly there is a hidden species that we know very little about. This species, the African Forest Elephant has been understudied because it can easily hide in dense forests. Scientists, therefore, have to be creative and use a combination of methods to