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Cause of aging remains elusive
Oct 24, 2014 (SPX)
A report by Chinese researchers in the journal Nature a few months ago was a small sensation: they appeared to have found the cause for why organisms age. An in...
Seaweed engineers build crustacean homes
Oct 24, 2014 (SPX)
On the tidal mudflats of Georgia and South Carolina, the red Japanese seaweed Gracilaria vermiculophylla is gaining a foothold where no native seaweeds live. On...
Brisbane Sugarbag bees launch all-conquering raids
Oct 24, 2014 (SPX)
They may be tiny and stingless but there's nothing sweet and innocent about a species of native sugarbag bee when it goes to war over a coveted honey-filled hiv...
Let There Be Light
Oct 23, 2014 (SPX)
A longstanding question among scientists is whether evolution is predictable. A team of researchers from UC Santa Barbara may have found a preliminary answer. T...
US charges safari owners with illegal rhino hunts
Oct 23, 2014 (AFP)
Two South African men were charged Thursday by the US government with conspiracy to sell illegal rhinoceros hunts to American hunters, money laundering and secr...
New study, video detail chimpanzee raids in Uganda
Oct 23, 2014 (UPI)
As human development in Africa expands, the natural habitat of chimpanzees is shrinking across much of the continent. As a result, food sources are less abundan...
High-speed evolution in the lab powers genome analysis
Oct 22, 2014 (SPX)
Life implies change. And this holds true for genes as well. Organisms require a flexible genome in order to adapt to changes in the local environment. Christian...
Crystallizing the DNA nanotechnology dream
Oct 22, 2014 (SPX)
DNA has garnered attention for its potential as a programmable material platform that could spawn entire new and revolutionary nanodevices in computer science, ...
WSU researchers see how plants optimize their repair
Oct 22, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers led by a Washington State University biologist have found the optimal mechanism by which plants heal the botanical equivalent of a bad sunburn. Thei...
Chimpanzees have favorite 'tool set' for hunting staple food of army ants
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
West African chimpanzees will search far and wide to find Alchornea hirtella, a spindly shrub whose straight shoots provide the ideal tools to hunt aggressive a...
Crocodiles are sophisticated hunters
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
Recent studies have found that crocodiles and their relatives are highly intelligent animals capable of sophisticated behavior such as advanced parental care, c...
Prehistoric crocodiles' evolution mirrored in living species
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
Crocodiles which roamed the world's seas millions of years ago developed in similar ways to their modern-day relatives, a study has shown. Fresh research into a...
Wisconsin closes several wolf harvest zones
Oct 20, 2014 (UPI)
Officials with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are closing another wolf hunting zone tonight, effective at 6:30 p.m. local time. Two other hunting...
Scientist documents encounter with Goliath birdeater
Oct 20, 2014 (UPI)
Harvard entomologist and experienced field scientist Piotr Naskrecki has over 30 scientific papers with his name on them. But being knowledgeable and prolific d...
Loss of big predators could leave herbivores in a thorny situation
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
Global declines in carnivore populations could embolden plant eaters to increasingly dine on succulent vegetation, driving losses in plant and tree biodiversity...
Taking Infestation with a Grain of Salt
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
Twenty years ago, biologists Kathy Boyer and Joy Zedler, then researchers at San Diego State University, speculated that too many insects feeding on cordgrass i...
These roos were 'made' for walking, study suggests of extinct enigmas
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
Imagine that a time machine has transported you to the Australian outback 100,000 years ago. As you emerge, you see a huge kangaroo with a round rabbit-like fac...
All in a flap: Seychelles fears foreign bird invader
Oct 17, 2014 (AFP)
It was just a feather: but in the tropical paradise of the Seychelles, the discovery of parakeet plumage has put environmentalists in a flutter, with a foreign ...
Australia aims to end extinction of native wildlife by 2020
Oct 16, 2014 (AFP)
Australia's Environment Minister Greg Hunt has pledged to end the extinction of native mammal species by 2020, with a focus on culprits such as feral cats. Hunt...
Britain on brink of freshwater species 'invasion' from south east Europe
Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)
Five of the most high-risk freshwater invaders from the Ponto-Caspian region around Turkey and Ukraine are now in Britain - including the quagga mussel, confirm...
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