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Cloned horse raises hopes for equestrian sports in China
Jan 12, 2023 (AFP)
The cloning of competition and thoroughbred horses has been practised in several countries since the early 2000s, particularly for genetic improvements. Born la...
Restoring Madagascar's unique biodiversity would take millions of years
Jan 10, 2023 (AFP)
The southern Indian Ocean island has been cut off from the African continent for over 80 million years -- a separation that has developed an extraordinary array...
Scientists discover a new way of sharing genetic information in a common ocean microbe
Jan 09, 2023 (SPX)
Now, new research reveals that these tiny bacteria exchange genetic information with one another, even when widely separated, by a previously undocumented mecha...
New dwarf boa found in Ecuadoran Amazon
Jan 05, 2023 (AFP)
Up to 20 centimeters (7.8 inches) long and with skin coloring similar to those of the boa constrictor -- the previously unknown snake was named Tropidophis cacu...
Hard to bear: UK's only panda pair to return to China
Jan 04, 2023 (AFP)
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) said it plans to give Yang Guang ("Sunshine") and Tian Tian ("Sweetie") a "giant farewell" at the zoo before the...
Self-assembling proteins can store cellular memories
Jan 03, 2023 (SPX)
Cells programmed to produce these chains continuously add building blocks that encode particular cellular events. Later, the ordered protein chains can be label...
Pygmy elephant gores handler to death in Malaysia
Dec 29, 2022 (AFP)
Joe Fred Lansou, 49, was treating an injured calf when another captive adult elephant suddenly "tusked him very badly" in the chest and abdomen, Sabah Wildlife ...
Bornean elephant fatally gores handler in Malaysia park
Dec 29, 2022 (AFP)
The handler was tending to an injured elephant calf when another captured elephant suddenly gored him "very severely" in the chest, Augustine Tuuga, the directo...
Holy icy chill, Batman! Freezing bats saved in Texas
Dec 29, 2022 (AFP)
A wave of frigid air triggered "hypothermic shock" in a colony of bats clinging to their roost beneath a bridge in Houston, a sprawling city in Texas. Nearly fr...
Top Thai conservation official arrested on corruption charges
Dec 27, 2022 (AFP)
Rutchada Suriyakul na Ayutya, director-general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, was appointed in February. He managed effor...
Fly away home: rare Eastern Sarus cranes released in Thailand
Dec 27, 2022 (AFP)
More commonly known as Thai cranes, the birds nearly disappeared from the country roughly 50 years ago -- they were last spotted in the wild in 1968 -- before a...
From robot fireflies to okra plasters: 2022's nature-inspired solutions
Dec 23, 2022 (AFP)
"Nature has spent hundreds of millions of years optimising elegant solutions to extremely complicated problems," said Alon Gorodetsky, a biomedical engineer at ...
Male panda at Dutch zoo turns out to be female; Mystery of glass frog transparency
Dec 23, 2022 (AFP)
The discovery at the Ouwehands Zoo was made during a routine medical check-up on Fan Xing, who was the first giant panda to be born in the Netherlands. The zoo'...
Increasing forest cover in the Eifel region 11,000 years ago resulted in the local loss of megafauna
Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)
This is the conclusion reached in a study conducted by Professor Frank Sirocko of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), together with researchers from the ...
Metabolic hack makes ocean algae more resilient to 21st century climate change
Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)
Combining data from the long-term Hawai'i Ocean Time-series program with new climate model simulations conducted on one of South Korea's fastest supercomputers,...
Lions killed after escape bid from Sudan paramilitaries
Dec 22, 2022 (AFP)
The lions -- a species ranked as "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature -- were born two years ago at Sudan's Animal Rescue Centre, ...
S.Africa turns to lie-detectors in anti-poaching war
Dec 22, 2022 (AFP)
Poachers, sometimes operating in cahoots with crooked park employees, have decimated the country's population of endangered rhinos in recent years. To tackle th...
How Chinese diplomacy helped seal historic nature deal
Dec 20, 2022 (AFP)
But a broad recognition that it was now or never for nature -- and a flurry of late diplomacy by China -- helped seal a "historic" deal on a night of high drama...
East DR Congo rebel crisis threatens endangered mountain gorillas
Dec 20, 2022 (AFP)
About a third of the global population of mountain gorillas lives in the park, a renowned wildlife reserve spanning 7,800 square kilometres (3,000 square miles)...
Countries agree historic deal to protect nature
Dec 19, 2022 (AFP)
The chair of the COP15 nature summit, Chinese Environment Minister Huang Runqiu, declared the deal adopted at a plenary session in Montreal that ran into the we...
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