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TRAFFIC warns over 500 rhinos could perish this year
Aug 21, 2012 (AFP)
Global wildlife monitoring network TRAFFIC warned Tuesday that 515 rhinos could perish by the end of the year if no action is taken to stem the illicit trade in...
New spider family found in US caves
Aug 18, 2012 (AFP)
A team of amateur cave explorers and arachnologists has found a new family of spiders in caves and old-growth redwood forests in Oregon and California, US resea...
Physics and math shed new light on biology by mapping the landscape of evolution
Aug 14, 2012 (SPX)
Although the qualitative description of evolution - its observed behavior and characteristics - is well-established, a comprehensive quantitative theory that ca...
Division of labor offers insight into the evolution of multicellular life
Aug 14, 2012 (SPX)
Dividing tasks among different individuals is a more efficient way to get things done, whether you are an ant, a honeybee or a human. A new study by researchers...
North American freshwater fishes race to extinction
Aug 14, 2012 (SPX)
North American freshwater fishes are going extinct at an alarming rate compared with other species, according to an article in the September issue of BioScience...
Can nature parks save biodiversity?
Aug 13, 2012 (SPX)
The 14 years of wildlife studies in and around Madagascar's Ranomafana National Park by Sarah Karpanty, associate professor of wildlife conservation at Virginia...
Baby rhinos given second chance at S. African orphanage
Aug 07, 2012 (AFP)
The baby black rhino slurps milk greedily from a cola bottle, hops around and chases its caregiver in South Africa's newest and largest orphanage for calves who...
More code cracking
Aug 06, 2012 (SPX)
A trio of groundbreaking publications from researchers in Northwestern University's Physical Sciences-Oncology Center (PS-OC) report important methodological ad...
Study shows how elephants produce their deep 'voices'
Aug 06, 2012 (SPX)
African elephants are known to be great communicators that converse with extremely low-pitched vocalizations, known as infrasounds, over a distance of miles. Th...
Boston University researchers expand synthetic biology's toolkit
Aug 03, 2012 (SPX)
Through the assembly of genetic components into "circuits" that perform logical operations in living cells, synthetic biologists aim to artificially empower cel...
Smell the potassium
Aug 02, 2012 (SPX)
The vomeronasal organ (VNO) is one of evolution's most direct enforcers. From its niche within the nose in most land-based vertebrates, it detects pheromones an...
Captive Lion Reintroduction Programs In Africa Operate Under 'conservation Myth'
Aug 01, 2012 (SPX)
A new report published in the international conservation journal Oryx concludes that commercial 'wildlife encounter' operations across Africa promoting the rein...
Superbird stuns researchers
Aug 01, 2012 (SPX)
A team of researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the National Research Council of Argentina recently fitted a South American sea bird call...
Mediterranean earthworm species found thriving in Ireland as global temperatures rise
Jul 31, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered a thriving population of Mediterranean earthworms in an urban farm in Dublin, Ireland. The findings by University College Dublin scie...
Researchers discover biological mechanism for growing massive animal weapons, ornaments
Jul 31, 2012 (SPX)
In the animal kingdom, huge weapons such as elk antlers or ornaments like peacock feathers are sexy. Their extreme size attracts potential mates and warns away ...
Research charts growing threats to biodiversity 'arks'
Jul 31, 2012 (SPX)
Many of the world's tropical protected areas are struggling to sustain their biodiversity, according to a study by more than 200 scientists from around the worl...
Air China no longer transporting lab monkeys: PETA
Jul 31, 2012 (AFP)
Air China is no longer transporting monkeys for laboratory experiments on its flights, animal rights group PETA said Tuesday, citing an email from the airline. ...
Chimp shot in attack on American returns home in S.Africa
Jul 30, 2012 (AFP)
A male chimpanzee who was shot in South Africa while mauling an American student has returned to the sanctuary where the attack happened, the primate centre sai...
Interpol wildlife operation results mark Global Tiger Day
Jul 29, 2012 (AFP)
Interpol marked Global Tiger Day Sunday by announcing the results of an operation to help save the endangered species that saw 40 arrests and the seizure of big...
Superfast evolution in sea stars
Jul 26, 2012 (SPX)
How quickly can new species arise? In as little as 6,000 years, according to a study of Australian sea stars. "That's unbelievably fast compared to most organis...
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