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Sumatran tiger kills farmer in Indonesia
Dec 06, 2019 (AFP)
The latest mauling near Pagaralam city in Sumatra prompted authorities to warn residents against going into local forests. The coffee farmer's body was found Th...
New fossils reveal how mammals became good listeners
Dec 05, 2019 (AFP)
Scientists have now identified the transitional stages in the remains of a newly discovered species that lived 125 million years ago in what is now northeastern...
As the planet warms, birds are shrinking
Dec 04, 2019 (UPI)
New analysis of a robust bird-size data set suggests migrating songbirds are getting smaller as climate change continues to raise global temperatures. Since 197...
Novel software helps scientists see what animals see
Dec 03, 2019 (UPI)
To accurately model animal behavior, scientists need to understand how different species process their surroundings, but figuring out exactly how different anim...
UN chief says humanity's 'war against nature' must stop
Dec 01, 2019 (AFP)
"For many decades the human species has been at war with the planet, and now the planet is fighting back," he said, decrying the "utterly inadequate" efforts of...
Dual motion helps cells keep their shape
Nov 27, 2019 (UPI)
"Nucleolar malfunction can lead to disease, including cancer," senior study author Alexandra Zidovska, an assistant professor of physics at New York University,...
The eagles have landed: Singapore shows off rare Philippine raptors
Nov 27, 2019 (AFP)
Destruction of tropical rainforest and relentless hunting have decimated the population of the Philippine Eagle -- one of the world's biggest and most powerful ...
Mothering poison frog in Madagascar helps scientists study the maternal brain
Nov 22, 2019 (UPI)
At least two species, including Madagascar's climbing mantella, a poison frog species, are much more nurturing and attentive than the average frog mom. Both the...
Angry hornets kill three in Indonesia
Nov 22, 2019 (AFP)
An 11-year-old student died in West Java Wednesday after he and three other pupils tried to destroy a nest of lesser banded hornets -- a species notorious for i...
China 'medicine' demand threatens world donkey population: report
Nov 21, 2019 (AFP)
Nearly five million skins are used every year to make ejiao, a gel believed in China to be a remedy for troubles ranging from colds to ageing, putting enormous ...
Scientists develop rapid cell lines for marine sponges
Nov 21, 2019 (UPI)
Cell lines are cells from multicellular organisms that are programmed to divide indefinitely. Cell lines from vertebrates, insects, and plants are vital to rese...
Decapitated Sumatran elephant found dead in Indonesia
Nov 20, 2019 (AFP)
The rotting corpse of the 40-year-old male creature was discovered by a plantation worker on Monday in Riau province on Sumatra island. "The elephant's head had...
A third of Africa's tropical flora threatened with extinction: study
Nov 20, 2019 (AFP)
The most authoritative list of threatened species is the famous "Red List" maintained by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). While this l...
Can plants tell us something about longevity?
Nov 19, 2019 (SPX)
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in 2009 "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase". Telom...
Sumatran tiger kills Indonesian farmer, injures tourist
Nov 18, 2019 (AFP)
The fatal attack happened Sunday at the farmer's coffee plantation on Sumatra island where the 57-year-old wrestled with the big cat before it killed him, accor...
Botswana to start issuing trophy hunting licences in December
Nov 18, 2019 (AFP)
President Mokgweetsi Masisi's government in May removed the moratorium, just a year after he suceeded Ian Khama, an avid environmentalist, who had introduced a ...
Chemists map an artificial molecular self-assembly pathway with complexities of life
Nov 18, 2019 (SPX)
"This molecule is interesting because it builds different structures depending on the conditions when it reaches the bifurcation point of its synthesis," said P...
Fate of bigeye tuna in the balance in quota meet
Nov 18, 2019 (AFP)
Scientists warn that unless the catch is reduced, stocks of Thunnus obesus -- prized for sashimi in Japan and canned worldwide -- could collapse within years. A...
Rogue elephant dies in captivity after killing villagers
Nov 17, 2019 (AFP)
The male animal -- nicknamed "Laden" -- was tracked for days by forestry officers and tranquilised on Monday after a deadly October rampage killed five villager...
Hair-raising truth behind pigeons' lost toes
Nov 13, 2019 (AFP)
For a long time scientists thought the fact that pigeons in urban environments often lost their toes was due to some form of infection, or was a reaction to che...
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