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A small dragonfly is found to be the world's longest-distance flyer
Mar 04, 2016 (SPX)
A dragonfly barely an inch and a half long appears to be animal world's most prolific long distance traveler - flying thousands of miles over oceans as it migra...
Shedding light on the day-night cycle
Mar 04, 2016 (SPX)
New research sheds light on how the rhythms of daily life are encoded in the brain. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have dis...
In dangerous tradeoff, birds ally with alligators: study
Mar 04, 2016 (AFP)
In the swampy Florida Everglades, egrets and herons build nests that hang precariously close to alligators swimming beneath, ready to swallow any weak chicks th...
New method to stop Argentine ants
Mar 04, 2016 (SPX)
University of California, Riverside researchers may have found a better, more environmentally friendly way to stop the procession of Argentine ants, which have ...
Kenya's canine cops sniff out illegal ivory
Mar 03, 2016 (AFP)
Burrowing deep into a huge pile of jumbled luggage, Dick the dog wags his tail, pawing at a small green rucksack: inside is the hand-sized tip of an elephant's ...
Asian wildlife traders harness social media: conservationists
Mar 03, 2016 (AFP)
Social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram are increasingly being used in Asia as platforms for the illegal trade in threatened species ranging from rare...
'Alarming' rise in S.Sudan wildlife slaughter: conservationists
Mar 03, 2016 (AFP)
All sides in South Sudan's civil war have slaughtered wildlife including elephant, giraffe and antelope, conservationists said Thursday, warning huge efforts mu...
Lone star tick populations growing in Kansas
Mar 01, 2016 (UPI)
Tick species are on the move all over the country. New research out of Kansas suggests the lone star tick, a bloodsucker named for the state of Texas, is nearin...
How plants protect photosynthesis from oxygen
Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)
During the daytime, plants convert the Sun's energy into sugars using photosynthesis, a complex, multi-stage biochemical process. New work from a team including...
Watching new species evolve in real time
Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)
Sometimes evolution proceeds much more rapidly than we might think. Genetic analysis makes it possible to detect the earliest stages of species formation and to...
Turtles' vulnerable start to life on Philippine coast
Feb 29, 2016 (AFP)
Hundreds of tiny turtle hatchlings emerge above a Philippine beach at night and immediately look to the sea, hoping to beat huge odds and start a remarkable tra...
What twisting snails can tell us about animals' intriguing asymmetries
Feb 29, 2016 (SPX)
While people and many animals might look pretty symmetrical on the outside, inside our bodies we are all fundamentally asymmetric. For example, the human heart ...
Inside America's battle on wildlife trafficking
Feb 27, 2016 (AFP)
Carlos Pages knows how to take precautions before he opens a crate; the last thing the wildlife inspector wants is to find a deadly cobra loose -- again -- at M...
Monarch butterfly population surges in Mexico
Feb 27, 2016 (AFP)
The monarch butterfly population has soared in its Mexican winter sanctuary this season, marking a recovery for the threatened species that migrates across Nort...
Ancient chimpanzee 'Adam' lived over 1 million years ago, research reveals
Feb 26, 2016 (SPX)
Chimpanzees have an ancient common ancestor - or genetic 'Adam' - that lived over one million years ago, according to University of Leicester geneticists. In a ...
The UN guardians of biodiversity
Feb 26, 2016 (AFP)
A factfile on the IPBES, a UN-created panel with the colossal task of harvesting and distilling all available science on the health of Earth's plant and animal ...
Humans speeding up evolution by causing extinction of 'younger' species
Feb 25, 2016 (SPX)
Just three years after crayfish were introduced to a B.C. lake, two species of fish that had existed in the lake for thousands of years were suddenly extinct. B...
Dodos might have been quite intelligent, new research finds
Feb 25, 2016 (SPX)
New research suggests that the dodo, an extinct bird whose name has entered popular culture as a symbol of stupidity, was actually fairly smart. The work, publi...
Creation of an island: The extinction of animals on Zanzibar
Feb 24, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of York have been part of the first comprehensive study of how Zanzibar was formed, charting the extinction of various animals fro...
Fifth of Finland's wolves killed in month-long cull
Feb 22, 2016 (AFP)
Nearly one fifth of Finland's endangered wolf population was killed in a controversial month-long cull which ended at the weekend, authorities said on Monday. A...
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