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'Countless' animals threatened by fires ravaging Europe
Aug 17, 2021 (AFP)
"Fires falling outside natural patterns are jeopardising the survival of wildlife, which are killed or injured through direct contact with smoke and flames or s...
Scientists announce plans to resurrect extinct Tasmanian tiger
Aug 16, 2021 (UPI)
Colossal Biosciences, which is already using genetic engineering to "de-extinct" the woolly mammoth, announced Tuesday it has the DNA and $10 million in funding...
'Suicidal reproducer' mammal survives Australia fires
Aug 16, 2021 (AFP)
Scientists had feared for the future of a key population of silver-headed antechinus, only formally identified eight years ago, when wildfires in 2019 swept thr...
Swathes of Libya without water after sabotage threats
Aug 15, 2021 (AFP)
Supplies to western and southwestern Libya were interrupted overnight Saturday to Sunday, the Great Man-Made River water authority said. It took the decision to...
Singapore zoo breeds first panda cub
Aug 15, 2021 (AFP)
Jia Jia, the zoo's 12-year-old female giant panda, gave birth to the cub after she was inseminated with frozen semen from 13-year-old Kai Kai, Wildlife Reserves...
World-first footage reveals secret life of a dingo
Aug 14, 2021 (AFP)
From posing for snap-happy onlookers to scavenging on the pristine sand of the world heritage site off Queensland's coast, the collar camera captured the daily ...
Namibia sells just a third of the elephants put on auction
Aug 11, 2021 (AFP)
In a statement, the environment ministry said it has "successfully sold 57 of the 170 elephants which were put on tender in December 2020". It raised 5.9 millio...
Passing clouds cause some marine animals to make mini-migrations during the day
Aug 11, 2021 (SPX)
The nightly trek from the ocean depths to the surface has been called the largest migration on Earth, because of both the number of animals who make the nightly...
World's biodiversity maps contain many gaps, Yale study finds
Aug 11, 2021 (SPX)
In a new study, a team of researchers created maps and assessed regional trends in how well existing species data are able to represent the distribution of 31,0...
Paleontologists uncover fearsome 'dragon,' Australia's largest flying reptile
Aug 09, 2021 (UPI)
The continent's largest flying reptile, described Monday in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, boasted a wingspan of nearly 23 feet. The remains of the fea...
Hairs of new carnivorous plant trap gnats, but allow bees to pollinate flowers
Aug 09, 2021 (UPI)
Found in bogs and wetlands from California to Alaska, and as far inland as Montana, Triantha occidentalis sprouts tall flowering stems with small, sticky hairs ...
Libya's wildlife treasure island at risk of ruin
Aug 08, 2021 (AFP)
An uninhabited 13-kilometre-long (eight mile) sandbar cut off at high tide in far western Libya, Farwa appears picture-postcard idyllic, with scattered date pal...
No animal left behind: Kenya holds first national wildlife census
Aug 05, 2021 (AFP)
Decades of unbridled poaching, expanding human settlements and climate change have taken a heavy toll on the global wildlife population -- and central Kenya is ...
Study: Giraffes are socially complex, misunderstood
Aug 03, 2021 (UPI)
The largest hoofed herbivorous grazing animal of the African region still living was once thought to have no social structure since they spent a disproportionat...
Study: Climate change accelerates emperor penguin extinction risk
Aug 03, 2021 (UPI)
The penguin species endemic to Antarctica forms colonies on sea ice, which are projected to significantly decline due to ongoing greenhouse gas emissions. Resea...
Rhino killings on the rise in South Africa
Jul 31, 2021 (AFP)
South Africa is home to nearly 80 percent of the world's rhinos but their horns are prized in traditional medicine in Asia, and poachers have continued to mount...
Scientists create embyros to save northern white rhino
Jul 30, 2021 (AFP)
One of world's two remaining live specimens -- female Fatu who lives with her mother Najin on Kenya's 90,000-acre Ol Pejeta wildlife conservancy -- provided the...
Without genetic variation, asexual invasive species find other ways to adapt
Jul 30, 2021 (UPI)
Across most of the animal kingdom, an organism's ability to adapt and evolve is largely dependent on genetic variation. Sufficient genetic diversity makes it mo...
Thailand forest park gets World Heritage nod despite indigenous rights warning
Jul 27, 2021 (AFP)
The Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex in western Thailand is rich in biodiversity, including the critically endangered Siamese crocodile, UNESCO said Monday in its l...
Greater diversity needed in genomic studies, researchers say
Jul 26, 2021 (UPI)
Because the majority of genomic data is sourced from patients with European ancestry, researchers say, the insights provided by genomic studies aren't always ap...
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