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March of the elephants: China's rogue herd spotlights habitat loss
Jun 26, 2021 (AFP)
The lumbering mammals have journeyed around 500 kilometres (310 miles) from their home in one of the longest animal migrations of its kind recorded in China. Sc...
See you in 17 years: America's cicada plague winding down
Jun 24, 2021 (AFP)
Now the curtain is coming down for the latest brood of cicadas, the disquieting insects that appear briefly in their trillions in the US every 17 years. These h...
Rogue elephant kills 16 people in India
Jun 24, 2021 (AFP)
The mature male, believed to be 15 or 16 years old, has been on the rampage in the tribal Santhal Pargana region of Jharkhand state ever since he was separated ...
Butterflies cross the Sahara in longest-known insect migration
Jun 23, 2021 (SPX)
The striking Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) butterfly has been shown for the first time to be capable of making the 12,000-14,000km round trip - the longest inse...
Twin joy as Tokyo panda gives birth to two cubs
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
They were born in the early hours of Wednesday, the zoo said in a statement, adding that it had not yet confirmed the sex of the pair. Zoo director Yutaka Fukud...
Longer wings, smaller bodies, earlier migrations 'new normal' for birds
Jun 21, 2021 (UPI)
The authors of the new paper, published Monday in the Journal of Animal Ecology, wanted to find out if these climate-driven changes are related. "We know that b...
Mexico's bee guardians on mission to save species
Jun 19, 2021 (AFP)
"Relax babies, relax. You'll be fine," the 32-year-old veterinarian said as the bees swarmed around her and clung to the white suit she wore to protect against ...
Scientists detect signatures of life remotely
Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)
Just like hands are chiral, molecules can be chiral, too. In fact, most molecules in the cells of living organisms, such as DNA, are chiral. Unlike hands, howev...
Jordan battles to save rare tiny Dead Sea carp
Jun 18, 2021 (AFP)
The Dead Sea toothcarp -- scientific name Aphanius dispar richardsoni -- has been on the red list of the International Union for Conversation of Nature since 20...
China's trekking elephants wait for youngster to catch up
Jun 15, 2021 (AFP)
The 10-year-old got sidetracked from the family walk several days ago, and is now lagging around 14 kilometres (nine miles) behind. Despite repeated calls from ...
Botanists discover previously unknown plant body part
Jun 15, 2021 (UPI)
Over the last several decades, it has become a favorite plant model for botanists as hundreds of scientists have likely examined thousands of thale cress specim...
Antidepressants make crayfish bolder, increasing risk of predation
Jun 15, 2021 (UPI)
This bold behavior, observed in lab tests at the University of Florida, could put the freshwater crustaceans at greater risk of predation. Though the latest exp...
Vietnam's pangolin defender wins top environmental prize
Jun 15, 2021 (AFP)
Highly prized in China and southeast Asia for their flesh, pangolins are seen as a delicacy for the mistaken belief that they can cure anything from impotence t...
Nighttime barking reveals new species of tree hyrax in Africa
Jun 14, 2021 (UPI)
Now, a new survey -- published Monday in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society -- has confirmed the hyraxes living between the Volta and Niger rivers ar...
Domestication changes the brain of farm-foxes
Jun 14, 2021 (UPI)
Foxes bred to be tame and foxes bred for aggression both displayed increases in brain size and gray matter, researchers found in the study, published in the jou...
Japan zoo prays for rhino love as new resident settles in
Jun 11, 2021 (AFP)
The horned herbivore, hand-picked by Taiwan's Leofoo Safari Park to start a family abroad, arrived in Japan this week, months later than planned due to pandemic...
MIT scientists create method to label, retrieve DNA data files
Jun 10, 2021 (UPI)
In a proof-of-concept study, published Thursday in the journal Nature Materials, scientists accurately retrieved single image files stored as DNA sequences from...
US state reports first litter of wolf pups in 80 years
Jun 10, 2021 (AFP)
Between June 4 and June 8, a state biologist and a wildlife manager independently reported visual confirmation that "John" and "Jane," known collared wolves, we...
Tackle climate change and biodiversity loss together: UN panel
Jun 10, 2021 (AFP)
In the first ever collaboration between the United Nations' intergovernmental panels on climate and nature loss, the scientists said that while the twin threats...
New quantum microscope can image incredibly small biological structures
Jun 09, 2021 (UPI)
The technology, described Wednesday in the journal Nature, could inspire breakthroughs in navigational and biomedical imaging technologies. Quantum entanglement...
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