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Scientists call for U.S. ban on salamander imports
Jul 30, 2015 (UPI)
Scientists in California have called on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to immediately halt salamander imports until there's a concrete plan to detect and is...
Chimpanzees binge on clay to detox and boost the minerals in their diet
Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)
Wild chimpanzees in the forests of Uganda are increasingly eating clay to supplement the minerals in their diet, according to a long-term international study pu...
Two held for killing five elephants in Kenyan reserve
Jul 29, 2015 (AFP)
Two suspected poachers have been arrested in Kenya over the killing of five elephants in Tsavo National Park, wildlife authorities said Wednesday. The Kenya Wil...
Parasitic flatworms flout global biodiversity patterns
Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)
The odds of being attacked and castrated by a variety of parasitic flatworms increases for marine horn snails the farther they are found from the tropics. A Smi...
Diversity of European butterflies could be seriously underestimated
Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)
Since 2006, the team of researchers has sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of all the known species of butterflies in the Iberian peninsula (228) and its main popu...
Inbreeding not to blame for Colorado's bighorn sheep population decline
Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)
The health of Colorado's bighorn sheep population remains as precarious as the steep alpine terrain the animals inhabit, but a new study led by researchers at t...
Bangladesh discovers only 100 tigers in famed Sundarbans
Jul 27, 2015 (AFP)
Bangladesh has only about 100 tigers living in the world's largest mangrove forest, far fewer of the endangered animals than previously thought, following a rec...
Dark plumage helps birds survive on small islands
Jul 24, 2015 (SPX)
Animal populations on islands tend to develop weird traits over time, becoming big (like Galapagos tortoises) or small (like extinct dwarf elephants) or losing ...
Bear alert: Russians warned off visiting cemetery
Jul 23, 2015 (AFP)
Armed police are patrolling a cemetery in a far eastern Russian city and escorting mourners after two bears strayed from the woods in search of food. The two As...
Oklahoma weather radar picks up massive Texas bug swarm
Jul 23, 2015 (UPI)
A swarm of grasshoppers and beetles is headed from Texas to Oklahoma, having last been spotted by weather radar near the Red River border on Wednesday. The swar...
Malaysia's 'black panthers' finally reveal their leopard's spots
Jul 21, 2015 (SPX)
From the frozen forests of Russia to the scorching sands of the Kalahari Desert, leopards are the most widely distributed large cat on earth. Their iconic spott...
Novel structures built from DNA emerge
Jul 21, 2015 (SPX)
DNA, the molecular foundation of life, has new tricks up its sleeve. The four bases from which it is composed snap together like jigsaw pieces and can be artifi...
Scientists hope vaccine will save Tasmanian devil
Jul 21, 2015 (UPI)
A rare infectious cancer is threatening to wipe out the Tasmanian devil population, the carnivorous marsupial found only on the Australian island state. Researc...
Why offspring cope better with climate change
Jul 21, 2015 (SPX)
Why offspring cope better with climate change - it's all in the genes! In a world first study, researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studie...
Improved way to interpret high-throughput biological data
Jul 21, 2015 (SPX)
This study has developed a unique bioinformatics approach for identifying associations between molecules from a range of vast data sources. Applied to studies w...
Humped-back model of plant diversity withstands controversy
Jul 20, 2015 (SPX)
Despite controversy in recent years surrounding the humped-back model (HBM) of plant species richness, which says that plant diversity peaks when the environmen...
Brakes and hairs from a maiden: The Pteridaceae fern family diversity in Togo
Jul 20, 2015 (SPX)
A research team from the University of Lome in Togo provide the first local scientific information on Togolese fern flora. They explored the largest family of t...
Jurassic saw fastest mammal evolution
Jul 20, 2015 (SPX)
Mammals were evolving up to ten times faster in the middle of the Jurassic than they were at the end of the period, coinciding with an explosion of new adaptati...
Humans are the biggest threat to California mountain lions
Jul 16, 2015 (UPI)
As mountain lions in California slowly make their way back from the near-extinction, they continue to face myriad challenges. But for the majestic pumas, no cha...
Environment, not distance, triggers genetic differences in 'sky island' birds
Jul 16, 2015 (SPX)
Genomic sequencing of White-breasted nuthatches populating isolated mountains in Southern Arizona shows pressure to adapt to unique habitats prompts genetic bra...
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