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Exeter research explains the worldwide variation in plant life-histories
Dec 24, 2015 (SPX)
University of Exeter ecologist Dave Hodgson works with other academics to manage a plant database called COMPADRE that brings together demographic information a...
Colombia hoping to 'repopulate the skies' with condors
Dec 24, 2015 (AFP)
A pair of Chilean condors have been brought to a zoo in Medellin as part of an effort to reintroduce the majestic birds in Colombia, where they have become all ...
Simulating nature's variability
Dec 24, 2015 (SPX)
Borrowing insights from techniques used to image cancer, Stanford scientists have devised a new method for generating "training images" that can be used to fine...
What controls animal stripes? Math has the answer
Dec 23, 2015 (UPI)
A newly developed math model, detailed this week in the journal Cell Systems, is helping scientists better understand animal stripes. Scientists say the existen...
New Caledonian crows filmed making, using hooks
Dec 23, 2015 (UPI)
New Caledonian crows are one of the most industrious species on the planet. They've been known to build and utilize a range of tools. The more scientists watch ...
African lions are 'endangered,' must be protected: US
Dec 21, 2015 (AFP)
African lions are at risk of extinction and will be protected under US law as an endangered species, authorities declared Monday, months after a high-profile ki...
Extinction of large animals could make climate change worse
Dec 21, 2015 (SPX)
The extinction of large animals from tropical forests could make climate change worse - according to researchers at the University of East Anglia. New research ...
Study finds people transformed how species associated after 300 million years
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
A study published finds a surprising and very recent shift away from the steady relationship among species that prevailed for more than 300 million years. The s...
How to see a mass extinction if it's right in front of you
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
A Yale-led study urges scientists to move their focus from species extinction to species rarity in order to recognize, and avoid, a mass extinction in the moder...
Less knowledge about global species diversity than assumed
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
Many of the previous studies on global species diversity are inaccurate. These are the conclusions of an international research group, led by Martin Luther Univ...
Anatomy of a microscopic wood chipper
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
TrCel7a is a cellulase: a special enzyme that breaks down cellulose, the most plentiful natural polymer on the planet. The enzyme works like a microscopic wood ...
Researchers document captive parrots using, sharing tools
Dec 16, 2015 (UPI)
Researchers have documented the use of tools by parrots. Captive greater vasa parrots, Coracopsis vasa, were observed using small pebbles and date pits to scrap...
The need to name all forms of life
Dec 14, 2015 (SPX)
As dragonflies are good indicators of water quality, knowledge of these insects is important. The discoveries were published by three odonatologists (dragonfly ...
Plants cope with climate change at genetic level
Dec 11, 2015 (SPX)
Climate change can influence everything from pine beetle outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains to rising sea levels in Papua New Guinea. In the face of a rapidly cha...
Scientists discover 74 new beetle species on Hawaiian volcano
Dec 11, 2015 (UPI)
To the delight of entomologist James Liebherr, Hawaii's Haleakala volcano boasts a bounty of beetle biodiversity. In surveying the insect life of Haleakala -- t...
A new genus of plant bug, plus 4 new species from Australia
Dec 11, 2015 (SPX)
A new genus of plant bug and four new species have been discovered in Australia. The newly discovered insects, which belong to the family Miridae and the subfam...
Extinct 3-horned palaeomerycid ruminant found in Spain
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
The extinct three-horned palaeomerycid ruminant, Xenokeryx amidalae, found in Spain, may be from the same clade as giraffes, according to a study published in t...
Ivory price drop signals waning Chinese demand: report
Dec 07, 2015 (AFP)
Illegal ivory has halved in value in China according to new research, leading to hopes that the demand which drives poaching in Africa might be on the wane. Ken...
Imperilled African penguins pose scientific mystery
Dec 04, 2015 (AFP)
In the cold, clear waters at Boulders Beach in Cape Town, the African penguins are so relaxed they swim among humans and waddle past sunbathers on the sands. Bu...
A common mechanism for human and bird sound production
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
When birds and humans sing it sounds completely different, but now new research reported in the journal Nature Communications shows that the very same physical ...
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