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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service puts meadow jumping mouse on endangered species list
Jun 11, 2013 (UPI)
More than 30 years after the state of New Mexico listed its native meadow jumping mouse as endangered, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has offered the rare m...
British butterfly desperate for warm weather this summer
Jun 11, 2013 (SPX)
Butterflies are extremely sensitive to changes in temperature and new research has revealed that when summer weather turns bad the silver-spotted skipper battle...
Philippines to destroy 5 tonnes of ivory tusks
Jun 11, 2013 (AFP)
The Philippines said Tuesday it would destroy five tonnes of confiscated elephant tusks as part of a global campaign to raise awareness against the illegal trad...
U.S. proposes dropping federal protection for gray wolves
Jun 07, 2013 (UPI)
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Friday it intends to drop almost all federal protections for gray wolves in the lower 48 states. The sole exception...
Fears for African rhinos in China forest
Jun 07, 2013 (AFP)
In a tropical Chinese rainforest, seven savannah-dwelling African rhinos are said to be awaiting release into the wild -- raising fears for their welfare in a c...
Scientists devise technology to help manage game reserves
Jun 06, 2013 (XNA)
Experts from the Nairobi-based World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) have developed a satellite technology to help better manage some of the world's richest game re...
How the turtles got their shells
Jun 04, 2013 (SPX)
Through careful study of an ancient ancestor of modern turtles, researchers now have a clearer picture of how the turtles' most unusual shell came to be. The fi...
Extinct frog hasn't croaked -- it's a 'living fossil'
Jun 04, 2013 (AFP)
The first amphibian to have been declared extinct by the world's conservation watchdog has been named a "living fossil" after it was rediscovered alive and well...
Sumatran elephants found dead, poisoning suspected
Jun 03, 2013 (AFP)
Two critically endangered Sumatran elephants were found dead in an Indonesian national park and it is believed they were poisoned, the WWF environmental group s...
Apes get emotional over games of chance
Jun 02, 2013 (SPX)
Like some humans, chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit emotional responses to outcomes of their decisions by pouting or throwing angry tantrums when a risk-taking st...
Crocodile eats Indonesian, head found in river
May 30, 2013 (AFP)
A crocodile devoured a man as he fished in an eastern Indonesian river but left his head floating in the water where it was discovered by his distraught family,...
Decoding the Genome of the Camel
May 29, 2013 (SPX)
By sequencing the genome of a Bactrian camel, researchers at the Vetmeduni Vienna have made a significant contribution to population genetic research on camels....
Video shows how wasp uses zinc-tipped drill to penetrate fruit
May 29, 2013 (UPI)
Despite what some environmental advocates might say, humans are not parasites; humans don't rely on another organism for habitat or reproduction purposes. Paras...
Bees tell birds to buzz off
May 29, 2013 (SPX)
A new study highlights the 'parasitism by theft' of bumblebees that invade birds' nests and claim them as their own. Their warning buzz helps bumblebees to "sca...
New one-step process for designer bacteria
May 29, 2013 (SPX)
A simpler and faster way of producing designer bacteria used in biotechnology processes has been developed by University of Adelaide researchers. The researcher...
Plants frozen for centuries come back to life
May 28, 2013 (UPI)
Plants that haven't seen daylight since they were frozen more than 400 years ago during the "Little Ice Age" are sprouting new growth, Canadian scientists say. ...
Biological clock scientists share Asian prize
May 28, 2013 (AFP)
Three scientists whose groundbreaking studies using fruit flies helped to uncover the workings of the human biological clock were Tuesday named the winners of t...
SAfrica eyes fence with Mozambique to stop poachers
May 28, 2013 (AFP)
South Africa wants to re-erect a border fence with Mozambique to stop rhino poachers from crossing into its flagship safari destination, Kruger National Park. "...
Conservationists say resort planned for Baja California peninsula a threat to biodiversity
May 28, 2013 (UPI)
Cabo Dorado -- the latest iteration of a massive coastal tourism and real-estate project planned for Mexico's Baja California peninsula -- is once again worryin...
Thinking 'big' may not be best approach to saving large-river fish
May 27, 2013 (SPX)
Large-river specialist fishes - from giant species like paddlefish and blue catfish, to tiny crystal darters and silver chub - are in danger, but researchers sa...
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