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Scientists solve the riddle of zebras' stripes
Apr 02, 2014 (SPX)
Why zebras have black and white stripes is a question that has intrigued scientists and spectators for centuries. A research team led by the University of Calif...
Black market for python skins worth $1 bn a year: report
Apr 01, 2014 (AFP)
Illegal python skins worth an estimated $1 billion are being imported into Europe every year to feed growing demand for the luxury leather, according to a new r...
Salamanders shrinking due to climate change
Mar 28, 2014 (SPX)
Wild salamanders living in some of North America's best salamander habitat are getting smaller as their surroundings get warmer and drier, forcing them to burn ...
Life hots up for British birds
Mar 27, 2014 (SPX)
Climate change may be bad news for billions, but scientists at the University of Sheffield have discovered one unlikely winner - a tiny British bird, the long-t...
Bighorn sheep went extinct on desert island in Gulf of California
Mar 27, 2014 (SPX)
Using ancient DNA analysis and other techniques, a research team led by conservation biologists at the University of California, Riverside has determined that b...
Excessive deer populations hurt native plant biodiversity
Mar 27, 2014 (SPX)
Too much garlic mustard growing in the forests of Pennsylvania? Actually, the problem may be too many deer. A new study published online in the Proceedings of t...
Tiger killing show for Chinese rich and powerful: report
Mar 27, 2014 (AFP)
More than 10 tigers have been killed as "visual feasts" to entertain officials and rich businessmen in a Chinese city, state media reported. Police in Zhanjiang...
Kenya insists fight against poachers not lost
Mar 25, 2014 (AFP)
Kenya insisted Tuesday that it has not lost the battle against poaching, resisting calls from wildlife activists for the ongoing slaughter of elephants and rhin...
First evidence of plants evolving weaponry to compete in the struggle for selection
Mar 24, 2014 (SPX)
Rutting stags and clawing bears are but two examples of male animals fighting over a mate, but research in New Phytologist has uncovered the first evidence of s...
Counting the cost of East Africa's poaching economy
Mar 23, 2014 (AFP)
Organised crime gangs in East Africa are generating staggering profits smuggling ivory and rhino horn with impunity, experts say, threatening both an irreplacea...
Rocky Mountain wildflower season lengthens by more than a month
Mar 21, 2014 (SPX)
A unique 39-year study of wildflower blooms in a Colorado Rocky Mountain meadow shows more than two-thirds of alpine flowers have changed their blooming pattern...
Reintroduction experiments give new hope for a plant on the brink of extinction
Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)
A critically endangered plant known as marsh sandwort (Arenaria paludicola) is inching back from the brink of extinction thanks to the efforts of a UC Santa Cru...
Sea anemone is genetically half animal, half plant
Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)
The team led by evolutionary and developmental biologist Ulrich Technau at the University of Vienna discovered that sea anemones display a genomic landscape wit...
Addercadabra: Python's homing trick stuns scientists
Mar 19, 2014 (AFP)
The Burmese python has a built-in compass that allows it to slither home in a near-straight line even if released dozens of kilometres away, researchers said We...
Kenya poaching crisis 'national disaster': top conservationist
Mar 19, 2014 (AFP)
Kenya must take drastic action to stem a surge of elephant and rhino poaching, veteran conservationist Richard Leakey warned Wednesday, lamenting that known rin...
Japan retailer Rakuten slammed over ivory and whale meat products
Mar 18, 2014 (AFP)
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is the world's largest online marketplace for elephant ivory and whale meat products, an environmental campaign group said Tue...
A novel battleground for plant-pathogen interactions
Mar 18, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, with collaborators at Michigan State University and the University of Illinois, have unveiled a new way in wh...
Rallies in S.Africa to save the king of beasts
Mar 15, 2014 (AFP)
Wildlife campaigners joined rallies around South Africa Saturday in an international push to protect the lion and save the king of beasts from being raised in c...
In grasslands remade by humans, animals may protect biodiversity
Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)
A comparative study of grasslands on six continents suggests there may be a way to counteract the human-made overdose of fertilizer that threatens to permanentl...
Philippines to build elephant monument from destroyed ivory
Mar 13, 2014 (AFP)
The Philippines is to build an elephant monument from the ashes of seized tusks it destroyed in a landmark action against the ivory trade, an official said Thur...
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