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Dirt mounds made by termites in Africa, South America, Asia could prevent spread of deserts
Feb 06, 2015 (SPX)
Termites might not top the list of humanity's favorite insects, but new research suggests that their large dirt mounds are crucial to stopping deserts from spre...
Tiger nations to set up anti-poaching network
Feb 06, 2015 (AFP)
Thirteen countries which are home to the world's dwindling population of wild tigers Friday agreed to establish an intelligence-sharing network to fight traffic...
Chimpanzees learn 'food calls'
Feb 06, 2015 (SPX)
Chimpanzees living in captivity are capable of learning calls that refer to specific food items. This was shown by an evolutionary biologist from the University...
Scientists use food industry knowledge to understand mass extinction
Feb 05, 2015 (SPX)
The close of the Permian Period around 250 million years ago saw Earth's biggest extinction ever. At this time large volcanic eruptions were occurring in what i...
Amazon fossils provide evidence South American monkeys came from Africa
Feb 05, 2015 (SPX)
NHM paleontologist's fossil finds bear little resemblance to any extinct or living South American primate For millions of years, South America was an island con...
Mesozoic mammals -- what do we know from China?
Feb 04, 2015 (SPX)
It is generally accepted that the tree of life for mammals was rooted in the Mesozoic, but the specific time for the origin of mammals remains an issue of debat...
'Arabian Ark' helps save wildlife from extinction
Feb 04, 2015 (AFP)
Oryx, giraffes and cheetahs roam an "Arabian Ark" nature reserve on a desert Gulf island where species once facing extinction in the region are making a comebac...
Scientists discover organism that hasn't evolved in more than 2 billion years
Feb 04, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of scientists has discovered the greatest absence of evolution ever reported -- a type of deep-sea microorganism that appears not to have ...
DNA nanoswitches reveal how life's molecules connect
Feb 04, 2015 (SPX)
A complex interplay of molecular components governs almost all aspects of biological sciences - healthy organism development, disease progression, and drug effi...
Why do zebras have stripes?
Feb 04, 2015 (SPX)
One of nature's fascinating questions is how zebras got their stripes. A team of life scientists led by UCLA's Brenda Larison has found at least part of the ans...
Birds take turns leading migratory V formations
Feb 03, 2015 (UPI)
In the world of migratory birds, when it comes to heading up the flock on a trip north or south to new territory, leadership is a team game. According to new re...
China demand threatens tiger protection: experts
Feb 02, 2015 (AFP)
Soaring demand for tiger parts in China has emptied Asia's forests, frustrating efforts to protect the big cats, wildlife experts said as an anti-poaching confe...
Structure of world's largest single cell is reflected at the molecular level
Feb 01, 2015 (SPX)
Daniel Chitwood, Ph.D., assistant member, and his research group at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center's in St. Louis, in collaboration with the laborator...
'Tiger heavyweight' Nepal hosts anti-poaching summit
Feb 01, 2015 (AFP)
Nepal's success in turning tiger-fearing villagers into their protectors has seen none of the endangered cats killed for almost three years, offering key lesson...
Picking up on the smell of evolution
Jan 30, 2015 (SPX)
For most of us, switching to a vegetarian diet might be a matter of a New Year's resolution and a fair amount of willpower, but for an entire species, it's a mu...
Baby chicks are born with the ability to count
Jan 30, 2015 (UPI)
You don't need language to do basic mathematics, it turns out. According to new research out of Italy, even baby chickens are capable of mathematical cognition....
The origin of life: Labyrinths as crucibles of life
Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)
Water-filled micropores in hot rock may have acted as the nurseries in which life on Earth began. A team at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich has ...
Sagebrush ecosystem recovery hobbled by loss of soil complexity
Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)
In big sagebrush country, re-establishing the ecosystem's namesake shrub may jump-start the recovery process more successfully after oil and gas development tha...
Blind beetles show extraordinary signs of sight
Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)
University of Adelaide researchers have made a surprising discovery in the aquifers beneath the Western Australian desert, which challenges the traditional Darw...
Researchers identify natural plant compounds that work against insects
Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)
Each year millions of deaths result from diseases transmitted by insects. Insects are also responsible for major economic losses, worth billions of dollars annu...
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