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Maths experts question key ecological theory
Jun 26, 2012 (SPX)
Mathematicians at the University of York in the UK and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand say they have disproved a widely accepted theory underpinning...
Preserved Frogs Hold Clues to Deadly Pathogen
Jun 26, 2012 (SPX)
A Yale graduate student has developed a novel means for charting the history of a pathogen deadly to amphibians worldwide. Katy Richards-Hrdlicka, a doctoral ca...
Hopes of saving rare tortoise die with 'Lonesome George'
Jun 26, 2012 (AFP)
The death of Lonesome George came as a shock to the caretakers who had come to know the 100-year-old giant tortoise, the last survivor of a subspecies decimated...
Giant tortoise Lonesome George dies, last of his kind
Jun 25, 2012 (AFP)
Lonesome George has died, leaving the world one subspecies poorer. The only remaining Pinta Island giant tortoise and celebrated symbol of conservation efforts ...
World loses species with death of Lonesome George
Jun 24, 2012 (AFP)
Lonesome George has died, leaving the world one species poorer. The only remaining Pinta Island tortoise and celebrated conservation icon passed away Sunday, th...
Civil war endangers Myanmar's ailing tigers
Jun 22, 2012 (AFP)
Efforts to stop Myanmar's tigers being hunted to extinction are under threat from a civil war raging in a region home to the world's biggest sanctuary for the e...
Top predators key to extinctions as planet warms
Jun 22, 2012 (SPX)
Global warming may cause more extinctions than predicted if scientists fail to account for interactions among species in their models, Yale and UConn researcher...
Kenya seizes 600 kg of Nigeria-bound ivory
Jun 22, 2012 (AFP)
Kenyan security dogs at Nairobi airport Friday outsmarted traffickers and sniffed through a layer of pepper to uncover a 600-kilo cargo of ivory bound for Niger...
Predators Have Outsized Influence Over Habitats
Jun 21, 2012 (SPX)
A grasshopper's change in diet to high-energy carbohydrates while being hunted by spiders may affect the way soil releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, a...
Record ivory heist at Zambia wildlife HQ
Jun 20, 2012 (AFP)
Thieves stole three tonnes of ivory tusks from a strong room at the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA), the biggest heist of its kind in the country, an official ...
Six lions speared to death outside Nairobi: official
Jun 20, 2012 (AFP)
Six lions were speared to death overnight on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital after they strayed from the city's national park and killed four goats, the Ken...
Manipulation of a specific neural circuit buried in complicated brain networks in primates
Jun 20, 2012 (SPX)
The collaborative research team led by Professor Tadashi ISA, Project Assistant Professor Masaharu KINOSHITA from The National Institute for Physiological Scien...
Nepal launches drones to combat poachers
Jun 20, 2012 (AFP)
Conservationists in Nepal are to send drone aircraft into the skies in the battle to save the Himalayan nation's endangered tigers and rhinos from poachers. WWF...
Threat to 'web of life' imperils humans, UN summit told
Jun 19, 2012 (AFP)
A feared mass extinction of wildlife also endangers billions of humans who depend on them for food and livelihood, according to a new assessment of species loss...
Herbivores select on floral architecture in a South African bird-pollinated plant
Jun 18, 2012 (SPX)
Floral displays, such as the color, shape, size, and arrangement of flowers, are typically thought to have evolved primarily in response to selection by pollina...
Loss of biodiversity increasingly threatens human well-being
Jun 18, 2012 (SPX)
The loss of the planet's biological diversity is increasingly threatening Mother Nature's ability to provide humans with goods and services like food, water, fo...
Brazil picks up the baton for struggling UN summit
Jun 16, 2012 (AFP)
Brazil on Saturday took the helm of talks to forge a global deal on preserving the environment and rooting out poverty ahead of a gathering of world leaders sta...
Stealing life's building blocks
Jun 15, 2012 (SPX)
In a finding that could fundamentally re-write science's understanding of how some parasite-host relationships work, Harvard researchers have found that, despit...
Pitcher plant uses rain drops to capture prey
Jun 14, 2012 (SPX)
During heavy rain, the lid of Nepenthes gracilis pitchers acts like a springboard, catapulting insects that seek shelter on its underside directly into the flui...
'Living fossil' fish still evolving
Jun 14, 2012 (UPI)
A fish dubbed a "living fossil" that hasn't changed fundamentally for 400 million years is still able to genetically adapt to its environment, researchers say. ...
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