On Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula, we discovered a population of 100,000 mestizos with a lower-than-normal rate of middle-age mortality.
But instead of discovering a population of ghosts, in the Bob Hope tradition, these two Americans -- Paul Rudd as Graham, a shy slacker from Lawrence, Kan., and Romany Malco as Allen, Graham's adopted African-American brother and director of an Internet sex business -- arrive to find a full staff of dolorous servants, themselves wraithlike hangovers from another era.
But the species hit the headlines in 2001 when researchers discovered a population of 20 to 30 individuals on Ball's Pyramid, a rocky islet off Lord Howe Island.
We discovered a population of immature beta cells that is present throughout life and forms from non-beta precursors at a specialized micro-environment or "neogenic niche" at the islet periphery.
Astronomers James Bock of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and Asantha Cooray of the University of California, Irvine, didn't set off to discover a huge population of rogue stars.
Last year, scientists were surprised to discover a large population of western lowland gorillas, a species close to extinction, in northern Congo Republic.
Companies are discovering that a population of 145m spread over 11 time-zones is a terrific market for mail order and online shopping.
It's one of the first times that the cycle, which is normally used to explain child abuse in humans, has been discovered in a population of wild animals.
In 2007, a survey team from Conservation International and WWF discovered a small population of Cantor's giant softshell turtle, previously thought to be extinct in the Mekong.
Deep surveys at 850μm from Mauna Kea using the SCUBA camera on the JCMT appear to have discovered a substantial population of ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIGs: Lir > 1012L⊙) at high redshift (z ∼ 1 4).
