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35,000 walruses mass on Alaska beach 'due to climate change'
Oct 02, 2014 (AFP)
At least 35,000 walruses have beached themselves on a remote Alaskan coastline in a phenomenon blamed on the melting of arctic ice due to climate change, expert...
New ant species survives by mimicking rivals, infiltrating neighboring colonies
Oct 01, 2014 (UPI)
Occasionally, humans will assume different identities -- accents, mannerisms, clothing -- in an attempt to stealthily blend in with separate groups. It's a tech...
Preference for urban areas may explain spread of bumblebee in UK
Oct 01, 2014 (SPX)
The strikingly rapid spread of the Tree Bumblebee in Britain could be occurring because the bees readily live alongside humans in towns and villages - according...
Plants prepackage beneficial microbes in their seeds
Oct 01, 2014 (SPX)
Plants have a symbiotic relationship with certain bacteria. These 'commensal' bacteria help the pants extract nutrients and defend against invaders - an importa...
Study shows how chimpanzees share skills
Oct 01, 2014 (SPX)
Evidence of new behaviour being adopted and transmitted socially from one individual to another within a wild chimpanzee community is publishing on September 30...
How the monarch butterfly became a migrant
Oct 01, 2014 (AFP)
The monarch butterfly's annual migration from North America to Mexico, a spectacular event at risk of disappearing forever, is the result of a single, millions-...
Dolphins are attracted to magnets
Oct 01, 2014 (SPX)
Dolphins are indeed sensitive to magnetic stimuli, as they behave differently when swimming near magnetized objects. So says Dorothee Kremers and her colleagues...
New cell sorting method developed by UH Manoa mechanical engineer
Oct 01, 2014 (SPX)
UH Manoa College of Engineering mechanical engineer Yi Zuo has developed a new, high-throughput method for sorting cells capable of separating 10 billion bacter...
Instant speciation, biodiversity, and the root of our existence
Oct 01, 2014 (SPX)
What do seedless watermelon, salmon, and strawberries all have in common? Unlike most eukaryotic multicellular organisms that have two sets of chromosomes and a...
Genetic Operating System Facilitated Evolution of Bilateral Animals
Oct 01, 2014 (SPX)
The evolution of worms, insects, vertebrates and other "bilateral" animals-those with distinct left and right sides-from less complex creatures like jellyfish a...
Protected areas offer glimmers of hope for wildlife
Sep 30, 2014 (AFP)
National parks and other protected areas offer hope for threatened species at a time of plunging wildlife numbers, conservationist group WWF said Tuesday, but t...
Wildlife numbers halved over past four decades: WWF
Sep 29, 2014 (AFP)
Wildlife numbers have plunged by more than half in just 40 years as Earth's human population has nearly doubled, a survey of over 3,000 vertebrate species revea...
New poison dart frog species found in Panama
Sep 29, 2014 (UPI)
Andinobates geminisae, a newly discovered poison dart frog species, is both loud and quiet -- loud in that its body is colored a garish bright orange, and quiet...
Dunes Reveal Biodiversity Secrets
Sep 26, 2014 (SPX)
Ancient, acidic and nutrient-depleted dunes in Western Australia are not an obvious place to answer a question that has vexed tropical biologists for decades. B...
Without internal clock, these blind fish can't get jet lag
Sep 26, 2014 (UPI)
The vast majority of living organisms -- even the simplest of bacteria -- have circadian rhythms, an internal sleep clock. The predictable rhythms of night and ...
Eyeless Mexican cavefish eliminate circadian rhythm to save energy
Sep 26, 2014 (SPX)
Eyeless Mexican cavefish show no metabolic circadian rhythm in either light and dark or constant dark conditions, according to a study published open-access jou...
Ancient multicellular life sets timeline back 60 million years
Sep 26, 2014 (SPX)
A Virginia Tech geobiologist with collaborators from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found evidence in the fossil record that complex multicellularity appe...
Goats better than chemicals for curbing invasive marsh grass
Sep 26, 2014 (SPX)
Herbivores, not herbicides, may be the most effective way to combat the spread of one of the most invasive plants now threatening East Coast salt marshes, a new...
Termites evolved complex bioreactors 30 million years ago
Sep 25, 2014 (SPX)
Achieving complete breakdown of plant biomass for energy conversion in industrialized bioreactors remains a complex challenge, but new research shows that termi...
Insects' fear limits boost from climate change
Sep 24, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists often measure the effects of temperature on insects to predict how climate change will affect their distribution and abundance, but a Dartmouth study...
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