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As wildland-urban interface grows, so does risk to people and habitats
Sep 16, 2015 (SPX)
Humans and habitat intersect in the wildland-urban interface, or WUI, a geography that now includes about one-third of homes in the United States within just 10...
Large eyes come at a high cost
Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have shown that well-developed eyes come at a surprising cost to other organ systems. The study involving Mexican cav...
Study shows Africanized bees continue to spread in California
Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)
A study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego has found that the Africanized honey bee--an aggressive hybrid of the European honey bee--is continuing to expan...
Research shows evolution in real time
Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)
In ongoing research to record the interaction of environment and evolution, a team led by University of California, Riverside biologist David Reznick has found ...
New calves raise hopes for world's rarest rhino
Sep 09, 2015 (AFP)
Three critically endangered Javan rhino calves have been filmed in an Indonesian national park, taking to 60 the total population of the world's rarest rhino an...
Common molecular tool kit shared by organisms across the tree of life
Sep 08, 2015 (SPX)
In one of the largest and most detailed studies of animal molecular biology ever undertaken, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University...
Climate change could leave Pacific Northwest amphibians high and dry
Sep 08, 2015 (SPX)
Far above the wildfires raging in Washington's forests, a less noticeable consequence of this dry year is taking place in mountain ponds. The minimal snowpack a...
Green sea turtles set nesting record in Florida
Sep 07, 2015 (UPI)
Each year, conversationists are counting more and more green sea turtle nests on the beaches of Florida. And 2015 was no different. This time, the vulnerable se...
Female frogs far outnumber males in US suburbs: study
Sep 07, 2015 (AFP)
Female frogs are nearly twice as abundant as males in the American suburbs, where manicured lawns, pesticides and other pollutants may be disrupting the amphibi...
Before nature selects, gene networks steer a course for evolution
Sep 07, 2015 (SPX)
Natural selection is a race to reproduce, a competition between individuals with varying traits that helps direct the evolution of a species. As scientists begi...
Indian elephant tramples Chinese man to death: police
Sep 07, 2015 (AFP)
A wild elephant on Monday trampled a Chinese man to death as he was taking a morning stroll through a dense central Indian forest, police said. The 41-year-old ...
Study upends assumption that predators always increase with prey
Sep 04, 2015 (AFP)
Scientists said this week they have uncovered what seems to be an unusual law of nature that keeps big predator numbers low across vast spaces of the Earth and ...
Change in environment can lead to rapid evolution
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
A new Florida State University study is giving researchers a glimpse at how organisms from fish to flowers to tumors evolve in response to rapid environmental c...
A marine creature's magic trick explained
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
Tiny ocean creatures known as sea sapphires perform a sort of magic trick as they swim: One second they appear in splendid iridescent shades of blue, purple or ...
Seal pups listen for long distance calls to locate their mothers
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
Antarctic fur seal pups identify the mother's vocal pitch at longer distance and use other components of the vocal signature at closer range to identify their m...
Taking apart termite mounds
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
As animal architects go, the average termite doesn't have many tools at their disposal - just their bodies, soil and saliva. And as guidance, variations in wind...
Animal without synapses feeds by external digestion using global, local cellular control
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
A multicellular marine animal without organs, Trichoplax's feeding behavior may include cellular coordination, resulting in external food digestion, according t...
Some birds may lose part of range under climate change scenarios
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
Over 50% of nearly 600 surveyed bird species may lose more than half of their current geographic range across three climate change scenarios through the end of ...
Biodiversity belowground is just as important as aboveground
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
Although most of the world's biodiversity is below ground, surprisingly little is known about how it affects ecosystems or how it will be affected by climate ch...
Lizards can stomach island living
Sep 02, 2015 (SPX)
Life on an island isn't always easy. To make the most of the little there is to eat on many Greek islands, the digestive system of Balkan green lizards has evol...
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