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Kazakhstan sounds alarm over dying Caspian seals

Mar 27, 2012 (AFP)

The Kazakhstan government and environmentalists Tuesday sounded the alarm over the declining numbers of endangered Caspian seals after 35 animals were found dea...

Thai man arrested in S.Africa over alleged rhino poaching

Mar 27, 2012 (AFP)

A Thai man has been arrested at a Johannesburg casino in connection with a rhino poaching syndicate accused of hiring prostitutes to smuggle rhino horns, a spok...

Zimbabwe says Trump sons' hunt legal

Mar 26, 2012 (AFP)

Zimbabwe's parks authority on Monday said US property magnate Donald Trump's sons were licensed to hunt game on a trip two years ago, after photos of their trop...

Monarch butterflies down again this year as decline continues

Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)

Unlike their colorful wings, the future of Monarch butterflies may not be too bright and their numbers are expected to be alarmingly down again this year, says ...

Zimbabwe group investigating hunt by Trump's sons

Mar 23, 2012 (AFP)

A Zimbabwean conservation group on Friday said it was investigating whether a hunting trip by US property magnate Donald Trump's sons was legal, after photos of...

Diet may be affecting rhino reproduction

Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)

Southern white rhinoceros populations, once thriving in zoos, have been showing severely reduced reproductivity among the captive-born population. San Diego Zoo...

Tracking Lake Erie Water Snake in Fight Against Invasive Fish

Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)

Thanks to research by a University of Cincinnati undergraduate student and two team members, there's a new tool that's now been tested and found to work in cont...

Researchers Print Live Cells with a Standard Inkjet Printer

Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers from Clemson University have found a way to create temporary holes in the membranes of live cells using a standard inkjet printer. The method will b...

Rhino poaching arrests up in South Africa

Mar 22, 2012 (UPI)

South Africa says it has arrested 89 suspected rhino poachers this year as part of an efforts to beef up its campaign to curb poaching. There were 165 arrests i...

Microbiologists can now measure extremely slow life

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

"Mud samples boiled in acid sounds like witchcraft," admits microbiologist Bente Lomstein from the Department of Bioscience when explaining how she and an inter...

Oldest organism with skeleton discovered in Australia

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

A team of paleontologists has discovered the oldest animal with a skeleton. Called Coronacollina acula, the organism is between 560 million and 550 million year...

How the Burgess Shale Was Preserved

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

The Burgess Shale of British Columbia is arguably the most important fossil deposit in the world, providing an astounding record of the Cambrian "Explosion," th...

Early Spring Drives Butterfly Population Declines

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

Early snowmelt caused by climate change in the Colorado Rocky Mountains snowballs into two chains of events: a decrease in the number of flowers, which, in turn...

Baby gorilla death prompts bi-national poaching patrols

Mar 21, 2012 (AFP)

The death of a baby mountain gorilla has prompted Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo to launch joint anti-poaching patrols to protect the endangered specie...

An evolutionary surprise

Mar 20, 2012 (SPX)

The origin of the exquisitely complex vertebrate brain is somewhat mysterious. "In terms of evolution, it basically pops up out of nowhere. You don't see anythi...

Poachers may wipe out rhinos in S. Africa, campaigner warns

Mar 18, 2012 (AFP)

Rhinos will be wiped out from South Africa's wildlife parks by 2015 if poaching continues at its current rate, a campaigner fighting to save the beasts has warn...

Chimpanzees have policemen, too

Mar 16, 2012 (SPX)

Conflicts are inevitable wherever there is cohabitation. This is no different with our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. Sound conflict management is crucial ...

WWF slams Cameroon over elephant poaching

Mar 15, 2012 (AFP)

Conservation group WWF criticised Cameroon's government Thursday for failing to protect scores of elephants slaughtered in a national park or the rangers who tr...

Four-winged dinosaur's feathers were black with iridescent sheen

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

A team of American and Chinese researchers has revealed the color and detailed feather pattern of Microraptor, a pigeon-sized, four-winged dinosaur that lived a...

S.Africa game dealer gets 8 year jail term for rhino horns

Mar 14, 2012 (AFP)

A South African wildlife dealer was sentenced to eight years in jail over 38 horns cut off sedated rhinos, a measure which, he said Wednesday, was meant to prot...