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Babysitting birds help elderly warbler parents raise their young
Jan 19, 2021 (UPI)
According to a new study published Tuesday in the journal Evolutionary Letters, cooperation among group of Seychelles warblers ensures older parents get plenty ...
Israel studies new forest home for endangered mountain gazelle
Jan 15, 2021 (AFP)
Wildlife experts hope their population can recover in woodlands like the Forest of the Martyrs west of Jerusalem, where six million trees were planted after Wor...
Scientists observe electric eels hunting in groups
Jan 14, 2021 (UPI)
But in an extraordinary find, scientists have for the first time observed electric eels gathering by the dozens and coordinating group hunts in the Amazon. Scie...
Study: Game of Thrones' dire wolves, gray wolves were different species
Jan 13, 2021 (UPI)
That was the last time a relative of the dire wolf and a relative of the gray wolf got together. The revelation was made possible by a tireless effort to extrac...
Indigenous peoples wary of UN biodiversity rescue plan
Jan 13, 2021 (AFP)
The COP-15 UN biodiversity summit in Kunming, China -- provisionally slated for early October -- will see nearly 200 nations attempt to thrash out new goals to ...
Orphaned rhinos find safe refuge in S.Africa sanctuary
Jan 11, 2021 (AFP)
Rescuers suspect the animal was injured by poachers who took out its mother, hitting the calf with a machete to keep it away. Jessie was lucky to escape alive a...
Bacteria can tell the time
Jan 11, 2021 (SPX)
The research answers a long-standing biological question and could have implications for the timing of drug delivery, biotechnology, and how we develop timely s...
Ukraine probes deaths of 185 cranes at nature reserve
Jan 11, 2021 (AFP)
Staff at the Askania-Nova sanctuary said they initially suspected that the cranes, some of which were coughing up blood, had bird flu. But this was not confirme...
Which came first, sleep or the brain?
Jan 11, 2021 (SPX)
In a study that could help to understand the evolutional origin of sleep in animals, an international team of researchers has shown that tiny, water-dwelling hy...
Champs-Elysees to be turned into new Paris garden
Jan 11, 2021 (AFP)
The French often call it "the most beautiful avenue in the world" but the decision follows years of campaigning by activists who complain that traffic and mass ...
Tasmanian tiger pups found to be extraordinary similar to wolf pups
Jan 11, 2021 (SPX)
"Remarkably, the Tasmanian tiger pups were more similar to wolf pups than to other closely related marsupials," Professor Andrew Pask from the University of Mel...
China jails 17 for smuggling pangolin scales worth $28 million
Jan 05, 2021 (AFP)
The gang were convicted of importing 23 tonnes of scales from pangolins -- the world's most trafficked mammal -- worth 180 million yuan ($28 million) from Niger...
Plant roots grow differently when searching for their preferred nutrients
Jan 05, 2021 (UPI)
All plants need nitrogen, but the macronutrient can be found in a variety of forms -- different kinds of plants have evolved to prefer different kinds of nitrog...
Eurasian eagle owl pellets offer records of threatened giant bush-crickets
Jan 05, 2021 (UPI)
The big-bellied glandular bush-cricket, Bradyporus macrogaster, is one such rare species. To better understand the distribution and abundance of the endangered ...
Poachers' paradise: Gulf hunts fuel Pakistan falcon trafficking
Jan 04, 2021 (AFP)
A single falcon can fetch up to tens of thousands of dollars on the black market, which allowed Rafiq to renovate his family home. "Every season, dealers come f...
Smugglers jailed as China's 'biggest ever' illegal ivory network smashed
Dec 31, 2020 (AFP)
Demand for ivory carvings and jewellery among China's expanding middle class led to poaching crisis across Africa, and although a 2018 ban on ivory trade in Chi...
Gut cells alert immune system to invading parasites
Dec 30, 2020 (UPI)
When scientists exposed mouse models to the parasite Cryptosporidium, they found the first warning signal was emitted by epithelial cells lining the intestines,...
Switching DNA functions on and off by means of light
Dec 30, 2020 (SPX)
This enables researchers to better understand and control the different processes which take place in the cell - for example epigenetics, the key chemical chang...
Howling into the void? US wolf recovery endangered by Trump
Dec 28, 2020 (AFP)
It is sometimes said there is no animal on Earth more like humans in their social behavior than wolves. But the iconic species -- long a symbol of the free spir...
Self-deleting genes could control mosquito populations
Dec 28, 2020 (UPI)
Thanks to the breakthrough, described Monday in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, researchers can now test-run experimental gene edits with...
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