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Indonesia orangutans attacked by villagers after fleeing fires
Nov 10, 2015 (AFP)
An endangered Borneo orangutan and her baby escaped from raging fires in Indonesia that destroyed their forest habitat -- only to be attacked by angry villagers...
Ice-age lesson: Large mammals need room to roam
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
A study of life and extinctions among woolly mammoths and other ice-age animals suggests that interconnected habitats can help Arctic mammal species survive env...
Tanzanian police arrest four Chinese with 11 rhino horns
Nov 08, 2015 (AFP)
Tanzanian police said Sunday they had arrested four Chinese men after finding 11 rhino horns hidden beneath their car in one of the largest seizures in the east...
Ancient long-extinct amphibians discovered in Brazil
Nov 05, 2015 (AFP)
Scientists have discovered two previously unknown salamander-like creatures that lived 278 million years ago in Brazil that could shed light on how animals resp...
New wasp species emerging
Nov 04, 2015 (SPX)
The concept that biodiversity feeds upon itself is an old idea, but it's difficult to prove because it requires biologists to simultaneously catch several speci...
Philippine Catholic leaders urged to reject ivory
Nov 04, 2015 (AFP)
The Philippines' dominant Catholic Church called on its leaders Wednesday to help end the slaughter of elephants by rejecting fresh donations of religious objec...
Virginia Tech chickens help reveal that evolution moves quicker than previously thought
Nov 04, 2015 (SPX)
A critical component of an experiment that proved evolution happens 15 times faster than was previously believed relied upon genetic lines of chickens from Virg...
Study spells out why some insects kill their mothers
Nov 04, 2015 (SPX)
One day a few years ago, while working on wasps in a rainforest in Costa Rica, entomologist Kevin J. Loope, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Calif...
Rare Sumatran rhino 'Hope' arrives in Indonesia to mate
Nov 02, 2015 (AFP)
A rare, US-born Sumatran rhino arrived Monday at his new home in Indonesia, an official said, where it's hoped he will find a mate and give his critically endan...
Ambitious program could unlock power of Earth's microbial communities
Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)
A consortium of 48 scientists from 50 institutions in the United States has called for an ambitious research effort to understand and harness microbiomes - the ...
Electric eel: Most remarkable predator in animal kingdom
Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)
The electric eel may be one of the most remarkable predators in the entire animal kingdom. That is the conclusion of Kenneth Catania, Stevenson Professor of Bio...
Microbiomes could hold keys to improving life as we know it
Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)
A consortium of 48 scientists from 50 institutions in the United States - including Pamela Silver, Ph.D., a Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biolog...
Early humans linked to ancient Australian extinction
Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)
While the anthropogenic impact on global species diversity is clear, the role of ancient human populations in causing extinctions is more controversial. New dat...
Wild elephant kills two Thais in rubber plantation rampage
Oct 30, 2015 (AFP)
A wild elephant killed two Thai men in separate pre-dawn attacks on Friday as they worked at a rubber plantation in eastern Thailand, police said. The two rubbe...
Nicolas the alcoholic monkey, symbol of abuse in Chile
Oct 29, 2015 (AFP)
Escaping the clutches of alcoholism is never easy, and it certainly wasn't for Nicolas, who had to go on anti-depressants to cope with the withdrawal symptoms. ...
Half of Africa's vultures flying towards extinction: conservationists
Oct 29, 2015 (AFP)
Africa's vultures are increasingly the victims of poisoning and poachers, leaving around half the continent's 11 vulture species critically endangered, a top co...
Loss of large land mammals could change landscapes forever
Oct 28, 2015 (SPX)
Large land animals such as elephants, wildebeest and other big plant-eaters are worth preserving in part because their disappearance could have permanent effect...
Capacity to regenerate body parts may be the primitive state for all 4-legged vertebrates
Oct 28, 2015 (SPX)
A team of paleontologists of the Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin, the State University of New York at Oswego and Brown University shows in a new study of fossil am...
Lion numbers could be halved across much of Africa by 2035: study
Oct 27, 2015 (AFP)
Lion populations could be halved across much of the African continent within 20 years, with those in west Africa in danger of being wiped out due to hunting and...
CWRU biologists find keys to driving a cockroach
Oct 26, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have identified neurons in a cockroach's brain that control whether the insect walks slow or fast, turns right or...
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