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Armenia culls wolves after cold snap attacks
Feb 16, 2012 (AFP)
The authorities in Armenia on Thursday offered cash rewards to hunters who kill wolves after increasing reports of attacks on rural villages exacerbated by rece...
Indian village relocated to protect tigers
Feb 15, 2012 (AFP)
An entire village inside a north Indian nature reserve has been moved to make more room for local tigers in a bid to protect the country's dwindling big cat pop...
Explosive evolution need not follow mass extinctions
Feb 15, 2012 (SPX)
Following one of Earth's five greatest mass extinctions, tiny marine organisms called graptoloids did not begin to rapidly develop new physical traits until abo...
Ultraviolet protection molecule in plants yields its secrets
Feb 14, 2012 (SPX)
Lying around in the sun all day is hazardous not just for humans but also for plants, which have no means of escape. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun can...
Genetic Rosetta Stone unveiled in Nature
Feb 13, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have developed a new community resource that may act as a Rosetta stone for revealing the genetic basis of traits and disease. A paper in Nature desc...
How the zebra got its stripes
Feb 13, 2012 (SPX)
If there was a 'Just So' story for how the zebra got its stripes, I'm sure that Rudyard Kipling would have come up with an amusing and entertaining camouflage e...
Fruit flies drawn to the sweet smell of youth
Feb 13, 2012 (SPX)
Aging takes its toll on sex appeal and now an international team of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Michigan find that in fr...
Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of European ladybirds
Feb 10, 2012 (SPX)
A new study provides compelling evidence that the arrival of the invasive non-native harlequin ladybird to mainland Europe and subsequent spread has led to a ra...
Coaxing a Shy Microbe to Stand Out in a Crowd
Feb 09, 2012 (NASA)
The communities of marine microorganisms that make up half the biomass in the oceans and are responsible for half the photosynthesis the world over, mostly rema...
Not the black sheep of domestic animals
Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)
Mapping the ancestry of sheep over the past 11,000 years has revealed that our woolly friends are stars among domestic animals, boasting vast genetic diversity ...
Lions adapt to winter at Canada safari park
Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)
A white lion slips on ice while playing with a plastic drum like a kitten with a ball of yarn, but the big cat quickly regains its footing. The African carnivor...
Rhino dies after anti-poaching treatment in S.Africa
Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)
A rhino died at a South African park after having an anti-poaching tracking device placed inside its horn, the owner of a private reserve said Thursday. Spencer...
Researchers examine consequences of non-intervention for infectious disease in African great apes
Feb 08, 2012 (SPX)
Infectious disease has joined poaching and habitat loss as a major threat to the survival of African great apes as they have become restricted to ever-smaller p...
Tiny primate 'talks' in ultrasound
Feb 08, 2012 (AFP)
One of the world's smallest primates, the Philippine tarsier, communicates in a range of ultrasound inaudible to predator and prey alike, according to a study p...
Steroids control gas exchange in plants
Feb 08, 2012 (SPX)
Plants leaves are sealed with a gas-tight wax layer to prevent water loss. Plants breathe through microscopic pores called stomata (Greek for mouths) on the sur...
Fossil cricket reveals Jurassic love song
Feb 08, 2012 (SPX)
Some 165 million years ago, the world was host to a diversity of sounds. Primitive bushcrickets and croaking amphibians were among the first animals to produce ...
Bouquet bargains trade off for life
Feb 07, 2012 (SPX)
Most creatures face compromises when they reproduce - the more energy they devote to having lots of babies, the less they can invest in each one. But do the sam...
18 endangered dolphins spotted off Borneo: WWF
Feb 07, 2012 (AFP)
Conservation group WWF said it spotted 18 critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in Indonesian waters off Borneo island Tuesday and called for greater protect...
Castaway lizards provide insight into elusive evolutionary process
Feb 07, 2012 (SPX)
A University of Rhode Island biologist who released lizards on tiny uninhabited islands in the Bahamas has shed light on the interaction between evolutionary pr...
Discovery of extremely long-lived proteins may provide insight into cell aging
Feb 07, 2012 (SPX)
One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in...
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