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Yackety yip: Dogs do understand words, says scientist
Nov 29, 2014 (UPI)
Researchers have long argued that most dogs respond to human emotion in words, and not the actual meaning of words. But now a scientist has demonstrated otherwi...
Vultures evolved an extreme gut to cope with disgusting dietary habits
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
How is it that vultures can live on a diet of carrion that would at least lead to severe food-poisoning, and more likely kill most other animals? This is the ke...
Centipede's genome reveals how life evolved on our planet
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
Centipedes, those many-legged creatures that startle us in our homes and gardens, have been genetically sequenced for the first time. In a new study in the jour...
Scientists could save thousands of pounds with student's DIY microscope
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
Expensive tests for measuring everything from sperm motility to cancer diagnosis have just been made hundreds of thousands of pounds cheaper by a PhD student fr...
Environmental 'tipping points' key to predicting extinctions
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from North Carolina State University have created a model that mimics how differently adapted populations may respond to rapid climate change. Their...
Hydrothermal Settlers
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
The deep ocean seems so remote that it is difficult to imagine any sort of human-generated change making an impact on deep-sea life. It is even more difficult t...
Game theory analysis shows how evolution favors cooperation's collapse
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
Last year, University of Pennsylvania researchers Alexander J. Stewart and Joshua B. Plotkin published a mathematical explanation for why cooperation and genero...
The unbelievable underworld and its impact on us all
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
A new study has pulled together research into the most diverse place on earth to demonstrate how the organisms below-ground could hold the key to understanding ...
Avoiding ecosystem collapse
Nov 26, 2014 (SPX)
From coral reefs to prairie grasslands, some of the world's most iconic habitats are susceptible to sudden collapse due to seemingly minor events. A classic exa...
Can stress management help save honeybees?
Nov 26, 2014 (SPX)
Honeybee populations are clearly under stress--from the parasitic Varroa mite, insecticides, and a host of other factors--but it's been difficult to pinpoint an...
First GPS-collar study reveals how leopards live with people
Nov 26, 2014 (SPX)
In the first-ever GPS-based study of leopards in India, led by WCS and partners has delved into the secret lives of these big cats, and recorded their strategie...
China media blame 'Putin's tiger' for goat slaughter spree
Nov 26, 2014 (AFP)
An endangered tiger set free in Russia has killed 18 Chinese goats after crossing the frontier, with Beijing's state media saying on Wednesday that the feline f...
Seed dormancy already existed 360 million years ago
Nov 25, 2014 (SPX)
An international team of scientists, coordinated by a researcher from the University of Granada, finds this phenomenon to be as old as the seeds themselves. See...
Vietnam seizes over 1,000 dead endangered sea turtles
Nov 25, 2014 (AFP)
Vietnam's environmental police have seized a record haul of over 1,000 endangered sea turtles which were being prepared for illegal export to China, an official...
The guts of vultures harbor microbes deadly to humans
Nov 25, 2014 (UPI)
Dozens of recent scientific studies have looked the microbiomes of the human body, the collection of microbes in and on the full array of human organs, includin...
Gray wolf confirmed in Grand Canyon
Nov 25, 2014 (UPI)
No body had seen a wolf in or around the Grand Canyon in more than 70 years. But the reports and photos started coming in October. For weeks, whispers swirled o...
Bear cub found dead in Spanish Pyrenees
Nov 24, 2014 (AFP)
A brown bear cub that was part of an effort to reintroduce the species to the Pyrenees mountains has been found dead on the Spanish side of the mountain range, ...
Eastern hellbender salamander may warrant endangered status in New York
Nov 24, 2014 (UPI)
The eastern hellbender -- a subspecies of the giant salamander (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) endemic to eastern North America -- may soon be listed as endanger...
Darwin 2.0
Nov 21, 2014 (SPX)
Birds that are related, such as Darwin's finches, but that vary in beak size and behavior specially evolved to their habitat are examples of a process called sp...
Louisiana black bear safe from threat of extinction, USGS says
Nov 21, 2014 (UPI)
In 1992, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service classified the Louisiana black bear (Ursus americanus luteolus) -- a regional black bear variety endemic to the Miss...
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