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British cuckoos tracked on migrations
May 07, 2012 (UPI)
Researchers say they have successfully tracked cuckoos fitted with tracking tags on their annual migration from Britain to Africa and back. A traditional herald...
Africa's last rhinos threatened by poaching
May 07, 2012 (AFP)
Decades of conservation efforts to save rhinos are coming undone, as surging demand for their horns in Asian traditional medicine has spawned a vast criminal tr...
Bigger gorillas better at attracting mates and raising young
May 07, 2012 (SPX)
Conservationists with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have found that larger male gorillas living i...
What is your dog thinking? Brain scans unleash canine secrets
May 07, 2012 (SPX)
When your dog gazes up at you adoringly, what does it see? A best friend? A pack leader? A can opener? Many dog lovers make all kinds of inferences about how th...
Eye size determined by maximum running speed in mammals
May 04, 2012 (SPX)
Maximum running speed is the most important variable influencing mammalian eye size other than body size, according to new research from The University of Texas...
Fossils of ancient 'super-koala' found
May 03, 2012 (UPI)
Australia's treetops were home 15 million years ago to sheep-sized, 150-pound relatives of modern day wombats that looked much like koalas, scientists say. Kare...
Rangers kill lioness roaming Nairobi district
May 03, 2012 (AFP)
Kenya rangers on Thursday killed a lioness that strayed from a park in the capital Nairobi and had been roaming with four of her cubs in a nearby district for t...
Not all altruism is alike
May 02, 2012 (SPX)
Not all acts of altruism are alike, says a new study. From bees and wasps that die defending their nests, to elephants that cooperate to care for young, a new m...
Orangutans harbor ancient primate Alu
May 02, 2012 (SPX)
Alu elements infiltrated the ancestral primate genome about 65 million years ago. Once gained an Alu element is rarely lost so comparison of Alu between species...
Why bigger animals aren't always faster
May 02, 2012 (SPX)
New research in the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology shows why bigger isn't always better when it comes to sprinting speed. "Typically, bigger anim...
WWF Indonesia calls for probe into elephant death
May 02, 2012 (AFP)
Environmental organisation WWF called on the government Wednesday to investigate the death of a critically endangered Sumatran elephant allegedly poisoned at an...
Antibiotic resistance flourishes in freshwater systems
May 01, 2012 (SPX)
The author Dr. Seuss may have been on to something when he imagined that microscopic communities could live and flourish on small specs of dust, barely visible ...
Brazil cracks down on lucrative wild animal trade
May 01, 2012 (AFP)
Blue-and-yellow macaws from Amazonia, green parrots, monkeys, turtles, anacondas and pumas: wild animal trafficking is a very lucrative business that spares no ...
Slicing mitotic spindle with lasers, nanosurgeons unravel old pole-to-pole theory
May 01, 2012 (SPX)
The mitotic spindle, an apparatus that segregates chromosomes during cell division, may be more complex than the standard textbook picture suggests, according t...
Australia to protect most vulnerable koalas
Apr 30, 2012 (AFP)
Australia moved Monday to protect its most vulnerable koalas, listing the much-loved furry tree-dwellers as a threatened species in parts of the country. Enviro...
Nearly Seven million birds die each year at communication towers
Apr 27, 2012 (SPX)
More than 6 million birds die every year as they migrate from the United States and Canada to Central and South America, according to a new study published in t...
Evolution in an island, the secret for a longer life
Apr 27, 2012 (SPX)
ICP researchers published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society B' one of the first fossil-based evidences supporting the evolutionary theory of ageing, whic...
Vietnamese held over Philippines turtle catch
Apr 25, 2012 (AFP)
The Philippines detained 12 Vietnamese fishermen and their Malaysian-flagged boat for collecting endangered fish and sea turtles and poaching, an official said ...
Study finds that mild winters are detrimental to butterflies
Apr 25, 2012 (SPX)
The recent mild winter throughout much of the United States was a cause for celebration for many. However, butterfly aficionados shouldn't be joining in the cel...
Orangutan nest building shows high degree of sophistication
Apr 23, 2012 (SPX)
Orangutans may be smarter than previously thought if a new study into the sophisticated way they build nests is any indication. Scientists at The University of ...
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