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Indonesia reports another suspected Sumatran tiger poisoning
Jun 29, 2020 (AFP)
Authorities said in both cases locals likely targeted the tigers for attacking their livestock, underscoring the increasing human-animal conflict in the Southea...
Ancient Japanese birds looked a lot like New Zealand's monster penguins
Jun 29, 2020 (UPI)
The research, published Monday in the Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, could help scientists figure out how birds evolved wings bett...
Australian outback station turned into national park
Jun 27, 2020 (AFP)
Narriearra Station, a 1,534-square kilometre (592-square-mile) property in northwest New South Wales, is the biggest purchase of private land for national parks...
Why are plants green
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
An international team of scientists, led by physicist Nathaniel M. Gabor at the University of California, Riverside, has now constructed a model that reproduces...
Sled dogs are closely related to 9,500-year-old 'ancient dog'
Jun 26, 2020 (UPI)
Genetic analysis suggests sled dogs emerged much earlier than previously thought, researchers report. "We have extracted DNA from a 9,500-year-old dog from the ...
New eDNA technique may reduce pathogens in aquatic animal trade
Jun 24, 2020 (UPI)
The methods call for the screening of environmental DNA, or eDNA -- genetic material collected from the environment -- not an animal's cells, according to a stu...
Sumatran tiger killed in suspected poisoning
Jun 23, 2020 (AFP)
The buried carcass of a male tiger was uncovered in North Sumatra's Batang Gadis national park following a tip off, according to park authorities, who said some...
Sexual competition, choice helps protect species from extinction
Jun 19, 2020 (UPI)
For the research, published Friday in the journal Global Change Biology, scientists bred flour beetles under controlled lab conditions for more than a decade. F...
Yale biologist reveals how plants grow thorns
Jun 18, 2020 (UPI)
Not all plant spikes are thorns. The sharp needles found on cacti are called spines, while the spikes adorning rose, raspberry and blackberry bushes are known a...
Plants can camouflage odours to avoid being eaten: study
Jun 18, 2020 (AFP)
International researchers from Europe and North America examined 28 species of insects and 20 plant species in Chamela-Cuixmala, a tropical forest reserve on th...
Viruses steal human DNA to forge new human-virus genes
Jun 18, 2020 (UPI)
When virologists surveyed the genetic diversity and protein synthesis capabilities of a group of viruses known as segmented negative-strand RNA viruses, or sNSV...
In virus lockdown, Europe's predators regain turf
Jun 16, 2020 (AFP)
Four wolves, trailing a herd of red deer, chased them down the road bordering Ciccotti's house, and ran through town, passing across front lawns and shuttered r...
Giant tortoise Diego, a hero to his species, is home
Jun 15, 2020 (AFP)
Diego was shipped out from the Galapagos National Park's breeding program on Santa Cruz to remote and uninhabited Espanola. "We are closing an important chapter...
Hummingbirds see 'nonspectral' colors humans can only imagine
Jun 15, 2020 (UPI)
According to a new study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, hummingbirds can even see a diversity of so-called nonspectra...
Chinese conservationists battle to save pangolins from poachers
Jun 12, 2020 (AFP)
The freeing of the scaly creature in the eastern province of Zhejiang came after Beijing's Forestry and Grassland Administration granted the world's most traffi...
Return of the otter: How reintroduced predators benefit ecosystems
Jun 11, 2020 (AFP)
Shellfish-munching sea otters have been the bane of fishermens' existence ever since they were reintroduced to Canada's west coast in the 1970s -- but a new stu...
Truncated will: India landowner bequeaths land to elephants
Jun 11, 2020 (AFP)
Akhtar Imam, from a village in the eastern state of Bihar, said he changed his will to bequeath 2.5 hectares (6.2 acres) to gentle giants Moti (pearl) and Rani ...
France seeks killer of bear shot in Pyrenees
Jun 10, 2020 (AFP)
The creature was a male about four or five years old, weighing some 150-200 kilogrammes (330-440 pounds), according to Chantal Mauchet, a local official of the ...
Wildlife activists welcome China's new pangolin protections
Jun 10, 2020 (AFP)
Chinese state media reported Tuesday that pangolins were left out of the official Chinese Pharmacopoeia this year, days after the government increased legal pro...
Galapagos welcomes six new 'Darwin's flycatcher' chicks
Jun 10, 2020 (AFP)
Just 40 breeding pairs remain on the upper part of Santa Cruz island in the archipelago, located 620 miles (1,000 kilometres) off the coast of Ecuador and made ...
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