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New framework sheds light on how, not if, climate change affects cold-blooded animals
Jan 20, 2016 (SPX)
Cold-blooded animals like lizards, insects and fish have a preferred body temperature range at which they hunt, eat, move quickly and reproduce. Fear that a war...
Photos show elusive bush dog to be widespread in Panama
Jan 20, 2016 (SPX)
The bush dog is one of the most enigmatic of the world's canid species, seldom seen throughout its range in Central and South America. New data from photos take...
Rare muriqui monkey hideout found in Brazil
Jan 20, 2016 (UPI)
A recent survey of Brazil's Caparao National Park turned up a rare discovery -- a new group of northern muriqui, one the planet's most threatened primate specie...
US officials heads to Africa on anti-poaching campaign
Jan 19, 2016 (AFP)
US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell heads to Africa on Wednesday to denounce the trafficking of wild animals, on the rise over the past five years. "We are part ...
University of Alberta researcher tracks tyrannosaur's trail
Jan 19, 2016 (SPX)
Just outside the tiny town of Glenrock, Wyoming the footprints of a 66 million-year-old monster are cemented in stone. This fossil trackway was brought to light...
First evidence for independent working memory systems in animals
Jan 15, 2016 (SPX)
A new study from Indiana University could help ensure the hundreds of millions of dollars spent each year to develop potential treatments for Alzheimer's diseas...
Rare Cambodian elephant footage raises survival hopes
Jan 15, 2016 (AFP)
Rare footage of an elephant herd roaming through Cambodia's biggest forest sanctuary signals the success of a 14-year conservation programme and raises hopes fo...
Hong Kong to ban ivory trade: leader
Jan 13, 2016 (AFP)
Hong Kong will ban the import and export of ivory, the city's leader announced Wednesday, in a "historic" move hailed by animal welfare activists. Chief Executi...
Bottom beginning to fall out of ivory market: regulator
Jan 12, 2016 (AFP)
Global efforts to crack down on illegal ivory trafficking are eating away at prices, a wildlife trade regulator said Tuesday, voicing confidence the bottom was ...
Gradual environmental change delays evolution, adaptation
Jan 07, 2016 (UPI)
Previous research has suggested rapid or sudden environmental change often precipitate accelerated evolutionary adaptation and speciation. Now, scientists say t...
Biological 'clock' discovered in sea turtle shells
Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)
Radiocarbon dating of atomic bomb fallout found in sea turtle shells can be used to reliably estimate the ages, growth rates and reproductive maturity of sea tu...
Australian giant monitor lizards trained to avoid eating toxic toads
Jan 06, 2016 (AFP)
Australian scientists Wednesday said they had devised an "innovative method of conservation" through feeding giant monitor lizards small cane toads so they won'...
Florida Indian tribe's last alligator wrestler bows out
Jan 06, 2016 (AFP)
On billboards across the Florida Everglades, a burly Native American man pries open an alligator's mouth, pressing his face dangerously close to the reptile's 8...
The origins of abiotic species
Jan 06, 2016 (SPX)
How can life originate from a lifeless chemical soup? This question has puzzled scientists since Darwin's 'Origin of species'. University of Groningen chemistry...
A far from perfect host
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
Biologists at the universities of York and Exeter have published new research which shows that an ancient symbiosis is founded entirely on exploitation, not mut...
Botanical survey helps understand changes in wild flora
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
Volunteers in the north-east of England have created a benchmark survey of common plants with which to identify change in the countryside, its result and causes...
Wolf hunting begins in central Sweden
Jan 02, 2016 (AFP)
Hunters in central Sweden killed a wolf on Saturday as they began an authorized cull of the predators that has been clouded by legal uncertainty. "Our staff wil...
Thermal microscopy of single cells
Dec 30, 2015 (SPX)
Thermal properties of cells regulate their ability to store, transport or exchange heat with their environment. So gaining control of these properties is of gre...
Big data predicts how plant species will react to environment changes
Dec 30, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists are using a 'botanical big data' approach to predict how different plant species will respond to human-induced disturbances and environmental change ...
New framework unlocks secret life of plants
Dec 25, 2015 (SPX)
Controlling invasive plant species and planting to withstand extreme events could be the big winners from a new international study led by University of Queensl...
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