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Study of giant viruses shakes up tree of life
Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)
A new study of giant viruses supports the idea that viruses are ancient living organisms and not inanimate molecular remnants run amok, as some scientists have ...
Britain grants first licence for badger cull
Sep 18, 2012 (AFP)
Up to 3,000 badgers could be killed in England after a government agency on Friday issued the first licence for a pilot cull in a bid to prevent the spread of t...
US zoo gets quick peek of newborn panda
Sep 18, 2012 (AFP)
Staff at the National Zoo said Tuesday they have stolen a few brief video peeks of its baby panda, in which the newborn healthily squeals and squirms in respons...
Giant panda in Washington zoo gives birth
Sep 17, 2012 (AFP)
A giant panda lent to the United States by China and living at the National Zoo in the US capital has given birth to a cub, zoo officials said Monday. The birth...
100 most threatened species
Sep 14, 2012 (SPX)
For the first time ever, more than 8,000 scientists from the IUCN Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC) have come together to identify 100 of the most threaten...
Crows react to threats in human-like way
Sep 14, 2012 (SPX)
Cross a crow and it'll remember you for years. Crows and humans share the ability to recognize faces and associate them with negative, as well as positive, feel...
Wild animals on the increase in Switzerland
Sep 14, 2012 (AFP)
Wild animals including bears, wolves and jackals are on the increase in Switzerland, a government agency said Friday, as it reported a spike in the figures acro...
Progress claimed in quest to clone mammoth
Sep 12, 2012 (AFP)
There may be some life left yet for the woolly mammoth, according to controversial research by Russian and South Korean scientists that has raised hopes the ext...
New Research Suggests Bacteria Are Social Microorganisms
Sep 12, 2012 (SPX)
New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reveals that some unlikely subjects--bacteria--can have social structures similar to plants and anim...
Catching some zzzz's at Costa Rica's sloth sanctuary
Sep 11, 2012 (AFP)
They often arrive in bad shape -- hit by cars, zapped by high-voltage wires as they climb trees, or orphaned because superstitious locals have killed their moms...
Threat to wildlife haven in 'scariest place on Earth'
Sep 09, 2012 (AFP)
An unlikely and unique cradle of biodiversity that runs the length of the world's most heavily-militarised border is being threatened by encroaching development...
Trout will become extinct in the Iberian Peninsula in less than 100 years
Sep 07, 2012 (SPX)
Climate change, pollution, the extraction of water for irrigation and overfishing all threaten the survival of the common trout. This fish is very sensitive to ...
Less ferocious Tasmanian devils could help save species from extinction
Sep 06, 2012 (SPX)
Evolving to become less aggressive could be key to saving the Tasmanian devil - famed for its ferocity - from extinction, research suggests. The species is bein...
Extinction fears shadow global conservation forum
Sep 06, 2012 (AFP)
The world's largest conservation forum opened in South Korea Thursday with warnings that reckless development was ruining the planet's natural health, pushing t...
Tigers take the night shift to coexist with people
Sep 05, 2012 (SPX)
Tigers don't have a reputation for being accommodating, but a new study indicates that the feared and revered carnivores in and around a world-renowned park in ...
Biophysicists unravel secrets of genetic switch
Sep 05, 2012 (SPX)
When an invading bacterium or virus starts rummaging through the contents of a cell nucleus, using proteins like tiny hands to rearrange the host's DNA strands,...
Smaller families increases descendant wealth but reduces evolutionary success
Sep 04, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have taken a step closer to solving one of life's mysteries - why family size generally falls as societies become richer. Evolutionary biologists hav...
Ancient genome reveals its secrets
Sep 04, 2012 (SPX)
The analyses of an international team of researchers led by Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, show tha...
Rice, MD Anderson scientists probe mystery of operon evolution
Sep 03, 2012 (SPX)
The threads of an evolutionary mystery that dates to the birth of molecular biology are beginning to unravel, thanks to a new investigation by computational bio...
Scientists call policy-makers to be scale-aware
Sep 03, 2012 (SPX)
To be successful, nature conservation measures must account for the complexity of the human impact and how nature responds to them, at different spatial and tem...
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