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Battle between moths, bats driving acoustical evolution
Jun 09, 2021 (UPI)
When it comes to camouflage, the hunted usually seek ways to blend in visually, but not all predators rely on eyesight to track and kill their food. Bats, for e...
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...
Endangered antelope rebounds in Kazakhstan, but threats loom
Jun 08, 2021 (AFP)
It took his group of experts and volunteers several journeys into the vast, arid grasslands of Kazakhstan before they found the calving ground where a herd of c...
Heavy sleepers: elephants on epic trek take nap
Jun 08, 2021 (AFP)
Chinese state television has launched a 24-hour live feed of the herd as the country remains on watch following the 15 elephants' epic trek through homes, barns...
Yemen's unique 'dragon's blood' island under threat
Jun 07, 2021 (AFP)
Forests of these ancient trees are being decimated by increasingly intense storms, while replacement saplings are gobbled by proliferating goat herds, leaving t...
A few common bacteria dominate soil's carbon cycle
Jun 07, 2021 (UPI)
According to a new survey, published Monday in the journal Nature Communications, the soil carbon cycle in a variety of ecosystems is dominated by just three to...
Songbirds can precisely control single vocal muscle fibers while singing
Jun 04, 2021 (UPI)
The new study, published Friday in the journal Current Biology, suggests songbirds have precise control over their singing muscles. The complex melodies produce...
Aussie researchers to test koala 'facial recognition'
Jun 03, 2021 (AFP)
The team from Griffith University is attempting to use artificial intelligence (AI) to recognise individual furry mammals when they use wildlife road crossings ...
Allergic to seafood? Don't eat swarming cicadas, US warns
Jun 02, 2021 (AFP)
"Yep! We have to say it! Don't eat #cicadas if you're allergic to seafood as these insects share a family relation to shrimp and lobsters," said a tweet Wednesd...
Third giant panda cub born in Malaysia
Jun 02, 2021 (AFP)
The cub was born Monday at Kuala Lumpur zoo to Liang Liang, who has been on loan to Malaysia since 2014 along with a male panda, Xing Xing, said the country's w...
Bangladesh arrests notorious tiger poacher
May 31, 2021 (AFP)
Local police chief Saidur Rahman said that Habib Talukder -- nicknamed "Tiger Habib" -- lived next to the forest and would flee whenever officers raided the are...
Common French bird species face 'unrelenting' decline
May 31, 2021 (AFP)
Between 1989 and 2019 over 2,000 French bird lovers participated in monitoring the nation's 123 most common bird species through the Tracking Common Birds Over ...
Endangered Iberian lynx population jumps 10-fold
May 28, 2021 (AFP)
A total of 414 lynx were born in 2020 bringing their total number in the two countries to 1,111, a record high since monitoring of the species began, the minist...
Chinese national killed in South Sudan attack
May 26, 2021 (AFP)
The almost 400-kilometre (250-mile) road is undergoing major reconstruction by the Shandong Hi-Speed Group Company at a cost of some $700 million dollars (574 m...
Two tigers gunned down in China's latest escaped-cat blunder
May 26, 2021 (AFP)
Tuesday's incident in central Henan province comes with authorities still hunting for one of three leopards that escaped in eastern China, in a separate case th...
Ecuador confirms Galapagos tortoise is from species thought extinct
May 26, 2021 (AFP)
"It was believed to have gone extinct more than 100 years ago!" Environment Minister Gustavo Marique said in a statement. "We have reconfirmed its existence. Th...
Tasmanian devils born on Australian mainland in rewilding push
May 25, 2021 (AFP)
Aussie Ark and a coalition of other conservation groups revealed that seven of the carnivorous mammals were born inside a 400-hectare (1,000-acre) sanctuary at ...
Newly discovered flower mimics the smell of rotting insects to trap coffin flies
May 21, 2021 (UPI)
Flies from the genus Megaselia don't like to eat rotting flesh -- instead, they mate atop and lay their eggs inside decaying insect corpses. Over millions of ye...
US justice seizes tigers, lions from 'Tiger King' park
May 20, 2021 (AFP)
Justice Department officials on Monday raided the Tiger King Park in Thackerville, Oklahoma for ongoing Endangered Species Act violations. They said the current...
Study: Earth's vegetation is changing faster than it has in 18,000 years
May 20, 2021 (UPI)
Over the last few decades, hundreds of studies have looked at the effects of climate change on various ecosystems. Climate scientists, ecologists and others hav...
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