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Extreme mobility of mantis shrimp eyes
May 02, 2018 (SPX)
Mantis shrimp vision is extraordinary, both in terms of their colour vision and their ability to see the polarisation of light. Not only this, but they have ext...
Climate change, wildfires transforming biodiversity hotspot in Northern California
Apr 30, 2018 (UPI)
The region is historically well-adapted to wildfire, but rising temperatures and a changing climate are taking their toll on the ecosystem. New analysis of the ...
Damselflies are rapidly evolving in response to global warming
Apr 30, 2018 (UPI)
"Genes that influence heat tolerance, physiology, and even vision are giving them evolutionary options to help them cope with climate change," Rachael Dudaniec,...
World's oldest known spider dies in Australia -- of wasp sting
Apr 30, 2018 (AFP)
The trapdoor matriarch comfortably outlived the previous record holder, a 28-year-old tarantula found in Mexico, according to a study published in the Pacific C...
Newborn jaguar cubs draw fans at Mexico wildlife park
Apr 28, 2018 (AFP)
The female cubs, who have not yet been named, had to be separated from their parents at 18 days old when one of them developed a skin condition that worried car...
Study: Horses read, remember human faces
Apr 26, 2018 (UPI)
In a series of experiments, researchers at the universities of Sussex and Portsmouth showed domestic horses photographs of humans with either a happy or angry e...
W.Africa gorillas more numerous than thought, but still endangered
Apr 25, 2018 (AFP)
Prior estimates were based on nest counts taken from isolated areas across the great apes' habitat range, said the report in the journal Science Advances. The n...
Something fishy: Mexico nabs traveler with endangered totoaba
Apr 25, 2018 (AFP)
Police at the Mexico City international airport "found 416 totoaba swim bladders in (the passenger's) two suitcases," the prosecutor general's office said in a ...
Inuka, first polar bear born in the tropics, is put down
Apr 25, 2018 (AFP)
The bear, whose name means "Silent Stalker" in Inuit, had reached the grand old age of 27 -- into his 70s in human years and two years older than the average li...
Australia's mammal extinction rate could worsen: scientists
Apr 24, 2018 (AFP)
Researchers from the government-funded Threatened Species Recovery Hub identified 10 Australian birds and seven mammals whose extinctions could mostly be preven...
Online skin trade fuels Myanmar elephant slaughter: conservation group
Apr 24, 2018 (AFP)
Myanmar has watched with alarm as the number of slain elephants found in the country's forests rises each year, with many blaming the trade in the mammal's hide...
Grassland plants react unexpectedly to high levels of carbon dioxide
Apr 23, 2018 (SPX)
For the first 12 years, researchers found what they expected regarding how different types of grasses reacted to carbon dioxide. However, researchers' findings ...
Hungry birds are missing out on their favorite insects
Apr 23, 2018 (UPI)
Researchers at the universities of Edinburgh and Exeter studied the nesting and feeding patters of three bird species, blue tits, great tits and pied flycatcher...
New microscope reveals biological life as you've never seen it before
Apr 23, 2018 (SPX)
The work - a collaboration between researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School - is detailed in a new ...
Hawaii shark bite victim previously attacked by bear, snake
Apr 22, 2018 (AFP)
Dylan McWilliams, 20, was bodyboarding in the ocean off Kauai on Thursday, when what he believed to be a tiger shark between six and eight feet (around two mete...
One of North America's rarest bees has its known range greatly expanded
Apr 22, 2018 (SPX)
In fact, the cuckoo bee - which much like its feather-bearing counterpart does not build a nest of its own, but lays its eggs in those of other species instead ...
'Rip Van Winkle' plants hide underground for up to 20 years
Apr 20, 2018 (SPX)
An international team of academics has found that at least 114 plant species from 24 different plant families, from widespread locations and ecological communit...
Rare brown bear dies in Italy capture operation
Apr 20, 2018 (AFP)
The Marsican bear is a critically-endangered subspecies of the brown bear found in Italy's Apennine mountains. The authorised capture operation at Abruzzo, Lazi...
Exploding ants: Scientist survey fiery species in Southeast Asia
Apr 19, 2018 (UPI)
Now, the species group, formally named Colobopsis cylindrica, has finally been surveyed by an international team of scientists. On Thursday, the team formally d...
Ben Kilham, the American bear whisperer
Apr 19, 2018 (AFP)
Meet the American bear whisperer, who lives in the woods of New Hampshire and whose life work is understanding black bears, winning him not just international s...
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