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Hong Kong seizes 113 smuggled ivory tusks
May 01, 2013 (AFP)
Hong Kong customs officers have seized 113 ivory tusks worth nearly $400,000 on the Chinese ivory market, officials said on Wednesday. The smuggled ivory was se...
Love-lorn tiger enters Indian zoo
May 01, 2013 (AFP)
A lonely male tiger that left the jungle and entered a zoo in eastern India in quest of a mate has been trapped, an official of the state-run park said on Wedne...
Ecology buys time for evolution
Apr 30, 2013 (SPX)
Songbird populations can handle far more disrupting climate change than expected. Density-dependent processes are buying them time for their battle. But without...
First falcons born in Paris since 19th century
Apr 30, 2013 (AFP)
The first peregrine falcons to be born in Paris since the end of the 19th century have hatched at the top of a giant heating tower close to the Eiffel Tower, it...
Computer scientists suggest new spin on origins of evolvability
Apr 29, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have long observed that species seem to have become increasingly capable of evolving in response to changes in the environment. But computer science ...
Species of mite apparently the fastest creature in the world
Apr 28, 2013 (UPI)
Who would win a race: a cheetah of Paratarsotomus macropalpis, a type of mite? The answer depends on what kind of race it is. In a distance race, the remarkable...
State of war protects Chad's last elephants
Apr 27, 2013 (AFP)
In an isolated wilderness in Chad, a war is being fought to save central Africa's decimated elephant herds from gangs of ivory poachers. The frontline is the so...
Chile's Humboldt penguins under threat of extinction
Apr 27, 2013 (AFP)
Several dozen Humboldt penguins sun themselves along the coast of an islet in central Chile where the majestic birds coming here to nest once numbered in the th...
Just what makes that little old ant change a flower's nectar content?
Apr 26, 2013 (SPX)
Ants play a variety of important roles in many ecosystems. As frequent visitors to flowers, they can benefit plants in their role as pollinators when they forag...
Humans passing drug resistance to animals in protected Africa
Apr 26, 2013 (SPX)
A team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered that humans are passing antibiotic resistance to wildlife, especially in protected areas where numbers of hum...
Mozambique's elephants under threat
Apr 25, 2013 (AFP)
Mozambique's elephant population risks being obliterated within a decade unless tight anti-poaching measures are introduced, conservationists have warned. The a...
Cheetahs in race to survive
Apr 24, 2013 (AFP)
The cheetah, the world's fastest land animal, survived mass extinction during the last ice age 10,000 years ago. But it has taken just the last few decades for ...
Brain size linked to self-control in new animal study
Apr 23, 2013 (UPI)
If brain size dictates self-control, what does that say about America, the second most obese nation in the world? Unfortunately, scientists didn't broach that t...
Is pet ownership sustainable?
Apr 23, 2013 (SPX)
There has been much talk about sustainability, but little attention has been paid to its nutritional aspects. University of Illinois animal sciences researcher ...
Something's Fishy in the Tree of Life
Apr 23, 2013 (SPX)
Fishes account for over half of vertebrate species, but while groups such as mammals, birds and reptiles have been fairly well understood by scientists for deca...
Protected pangolins seized from Philippine boat: official
Apr 23, 2013 (AFP)
Philippine authorities have seized 23 protected scaly anteaters found hidden in a cargo boat, in the second case of suspected trafficking of the species in a mo...
Ultrafast technique unlocks design principles of quantum biology
Apr 23, 2013 (SPX)
University of Chicago researchers have created a synthetic compound that mimics the complex quantum dynamics observed in photosynthesis and may enable fundament...
Endangered orangutan born in Indonesian zoo
Apr 22, 2013 (AFP)
A Borneo orangutan has been born at a zoo on Indonesia's main island of Java, providing a glimmer of hope for the endangered primates, a zookeeper said Monday. ...
Scientists discover oldest footprints outside of Africa
Apr 22, 2013 (UPI)
A new study published in PLOS ONE details the oldest human footprints found outside of Africa. Found and studied by archaeologists from the British Museum, the ...
Reverse extinction: should we redo the dodo?
Apr 22, 2013 (AFP)
Woolly mammoths stomp through the Siberian tundra as the giant moa strides the forest floor of New Zealand and Tasmania's dog-like "tigers" stalk their prey und...
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