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S.Africa: Kruger Park officials arrested for rhino poaching
Feb 29, 2012 (AFP)
South Africa's Kruger National Park on Wednesday said four staff members, including a field ranger, have been arrested for rhino poaching, which has killed 43 o...
Mass killing of Cameroon elephants alarms UN agency
Feb 28, 2012 (AFP)
The UN watchdog into the illegal wildlife trade on Tuesday voiced "grave concern" at a spike in African elephant poaching after nearly 450 of the animals were k...
Irish mammals under serious threat from 'invasional meltdown'
Feb 28, 2012 (SPX)
Some of Ireland's oldest inhabitants are facing serious threat and possible extinction because of foreign species, according to researchers at Queen's Universit...
Scientists prove Turing's tiger stripe theory
Feb 27, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers from King's College London have provided the first experimental evidence confirming a great British mathematician's theory of how biological pattern...
Studying the evolution of life's building blocks
Feb 27, 2012 (SPX)
Studying the origin of life at its building blocks offers a unique perspective on evolution, says Robert Root-Bernstein, MSU physiology professor, at Michigan S...
High definition polarization vision discovered in cuttlefish
Feb 24, 2012 (SPX)
Cuttlefish have the most acute polarization vision yet found in any animal, researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered by showing them movies on a...
Coral-eating sea star invaders turn out to be locals
Feb 24, 2012 (SPX)
One of the greatest biological threats to tropical coral reefs can be a population outbreak of crown-of-thorns (COT) sea stars (Acanthaster planci). Outbreaks c...
Seven arrested in US crackdown on rhino trade
Feb 23, 2012 (AFP)
US officials announced Thursday the arrest of seven people in a crackdown on the illegal global trade in endangered black rhinoceros horns. Arrests were made ac...
Cat-sized horses were the norm in a hotter past: study
Feb 23, 2012 (AFP)
More than 50 million years ago, the Earth was a hotter place than it is today and horses the size of pet cats roamed the forests of North America, US scientists...
The Origin of Photosynthesis Revealed
Feb 23, 2012 (SPX)
Atmospheric oxygen really took off on our planet about 2.4 billion years ago during the Great Oxygenation Event. At this key juncture of our planet's evolution,...
Scripps research scientists unlock evolutionary secret of blood vessels
Feb 23, 2012 (SPX)
The ability to form closed systems of blood vessels is one of the hallmarks of vertebrate development. Without it, humans would be closer to invertebrates (thin...
When is a gene not a gene
Feb 23, 2012 (SPX)
A high-quality reference catalogue of the genetic changes that result in the deactivation of human genes has been developed by a team of researchers. This catal...
A classic model for ecological stability revised
Feb 23, 2012 (SPX)
A famous mathematical formula which shook the world of ecology 40 years ago has been revisited and refined by two University of Chicago researchers in the curre...
New amphibian family found in Indian mud
Feb 22, 2012 (AFP)
Researchers digging through mud in northeast India have discovered a new family of legless amphibians in a rare scientific breakthrough detailed in a study rele...
Genes may travel from plant to plant to fuel evolution
Feb 21, 2012 (SPX)
The evolution of plants and animals generally has been thought to occur through the passing of genes from parent to offspring and genetic modifications that hap...
Poachers slaughter hundreds of elephants in Cameroon
Feb 18, 2012 (AFP)
Poachers have slaughtered some 200 elephants in a national park in northern Cameroon, about a third of the population, and the massacre is still going on, accor...
Chromosome analyses of prickly pear cacti reveal southern glacial refugia
Feb 17, 2012 (SPX)
Analysis of chromosome number variation among species of a North American group of prickly pear cacti (nopales) showed that the most widespread species encounte...
'Founder effect' observed for first time
Feb 17, 2012 (UPI)
Biologists have observed a theory of species evolution known as the founder effect in action for the first time, U.S. university researchers reported. The found...
The Developing Genome?
Feb 17, 2012 (SPX)
Since Charles Darwin first put forth the theory of evolution, scientists have been trying to unlock the mysteries of genetics. But research on the genome - the ...
Plants use circadian rhythms to prepare for battle with insects
Feb 16, 2012 (SPX)
In a study of the molecular underpinnings of plants' pest resistance, Rice University biologists have shown that plants both anticipate daytime raids by hungry ...
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