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Ground breaking book reveals 'what it's like to be a bird'
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
Featuring a chapter focussing on each sense - including vision, smell, touch, taste, and magnetic sense - Bird Sense, by Professor Tim Birkhead of the Departmen...
Species explorers propose steps to map biosphere
Apr 09, 2012 (SPX)
An ambitious goal to describe 10 million species in less than 50 years is achievable and necessary to sustain Earth's biodiversity, according to an internationa...
Bald eagle in crosshairs of US fight over lead bullets
Apr 07, 2012 (AFP)
The bald eagle that came into wildlife rehabilitator Belinda Burwell's care last month, just as the hunting season was coming to a close in North America, was a...
Going ape for apps: young orangutan plays with iPad
Apr 06, 2012 (AFP)
The young orangutan reaches his hand through the cage and rubs his knuckles over an iPad, drawing wide colors across the screen with his favorite app. A few min...
Stickleback genome holds clues to adaptive evolution
Apr 05, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists searching for genetic clues to vertebrate evolution have long been fascinated by the tiny marine stickleback fish, known for its ability to adapt and...
Plants mimic scent of pollinating beetles
Apr 04, 2012 (SPX)
The color and scent of flowers and their perception by pollinator insects are believed to have evolved in the course of mutual adaptation. However, an evolution...
159 rhinos poached in S.Africa this year: minister
Apr 04, 2012 (AFP)
Almost 160 rhinos were poached in South Africa in the first three months of this year as trade in the animals' horns drives up the illegal killings, a minister ...
How to save Europe's most threatened butterflies
Apr 03, 2012 (SPX)
The report entitled "Dos and don'ts for butterflies of the Habitats Directive of the European Union" was published in the form of an "Applied Conservation" pape...
Would-be poacher dehorns fibreglass rhino in South Africa
Apr 03, 2012 (AFP)
A would-be wildlife poacher sawed off the horn of a fibreglass rhino on a South African game farm, hoping to cash in on the illegal trade in horns. The robber f...
Love is in the air for Britain's giant pandas
Apr 03, 2012 (AFP)
The clock is ticking, and the heat is on. A giant male panda loaned to Britain by China has just 36 hours to make his move on his female companion or he'll have...
Study suggests why some animals live longer
Apr 02, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new method to detect proteins associated with longevity, which helps further our understanding into w...
Pakistan's canine fighters forced into blood sport
Apr 01, 2012 (AFP)
Fighting can be a way of life in parts of Taliban-scourged Pakistan, but on the farms it is more likely to be dogs who are in training for their own violent and...
Exploding dinosaur hypothesis implodes
Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)
The pregnant ichthyosaur female from Holzmaden (Germany) that perished 182 million years ago puzzled researchers for quite some time: The skeleton of the extinc...
Swarming and transporting
Mar 29, 2012 (SPX)
On its own, an ant is not particularly clever. But in a community, the insects can solve complicated tasks. Researchers intend to put this "swarm intelligence" ...
Scorpio rising
Mar 29, 2012 (SPX)
Even in places as seemly well-studied as the national parks of North America, new species are still being discovered. Using ultraviolet light that cause scorpio...
S.Africa mulls new trophy hunt rules to fight rhino poaching
Mar 29, 2012 (AFP)
South Africa may impose new limits on trophy hunts as it combats a devastating surge in rhino poaching, with 150 killed illegally so far this year, the environm...
Huge hamsters and pint-sized porcupines thrive on islands
Mar 28, 2012 (SPX)
From miniature elephants to monster mice, and even Hobbit-sized humans, size changes in island animals are well-known to science. Biologists have long believed ...
Researchers develop new technique to assess diversity of plant species from afar
Mar 28, 2012 (SPX)
By analyzing vegetation information collected by satellites over time instead of for just one day, scientists in the Michigan State University Center for System...
Plant DNA speaks English, identifies new species
Mar 28, 2012 (SPX)
The important changes to the way scientists name new plants that took effect on 1 January 2012 included the fall of the so-called Latin requirement - a stipulat...
Scientists discover new method of proton transfer
Mar 27, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists at USC and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have discovered a new route by which a proton (a hydrogen atom that lost its electron) can move from one mo...
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