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Birds of prey rely on color vision to hunt
Aug 29, 2018 (UPI)
The research suggests color vision is essential to a bird of prey's hunting prowess. "It's fascinating. I did not think that color vision would be of such signi...
Slow, steady tortoise beats speedy hare in real life, study shows
Aug 27, 2018 (UPI)
The fable's lesson is simple: consistency and perseverance beat out disinterested talent. In nature, faster animals tend to apply their speed inconsistently, ju...
French farmers furious as wild boars run amok
Aug 26, 2018 (AFP)
"Every year it gets worse. They destroy everything," the French farmer fumes, striding through what's left of the crop. "The boars come every night, in a pack. ...
Microbes hitch a ride inland on coastal fog
Aug 24, 2018 (SPX)
Co-author Kathleen Weathers, a Senior Scientist at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, explains, "Fog's role in transporting water and nutrients to coastal are...
To attract mates, male fruit flies sing songs with their wings
Aug 24, 2018 (UPI)
With the help of powerful microphones and neuron tracking technology, scientists at Aarhus University in Denmark identified the song motor circuit male fruit fl...
Spanish police smash Europe's 'biggest' illegal turtle farm
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
Officers arrested two German men suspected of operating the farm on the holiday island of Mallorca, as well as a Spanish owner of an exotic pet store in Barcelo...
Old species learn new tricks very slowly
Aug 22, 2018 (SPX)
"We're lucky to live and work in Panama where nature has set up its own evolutionary experiment," said Aaron O'Dea, STRI paleontologist. "When the Caribbean Sea...
Austria allows shooting wolves with rubber bullets
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
The wolf population is rising rapidly in many European countries, which has led to an increase in the number of attacks on farm animals. Farmers in three distri...
Laziness is an effective survival skill, evolutionary biologists find
Aug 22, 2018 (UPI)
The findings, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, suggest laziness is an effective longterm survival strategy. When scientist...
Battle of the parasites: Love vine sucks the life from gall wasps
Aug 20, 2018 (UPI)
The two parasites, love vine and gall wasps, share the same host, oak trees. But the new research suggests it's not the tree the vine is interested in, but wasp...
Malaysia makes record $12-mn rhino horn seizure
Aug 20, 2018 (AFP)
Customs officials found the parts in cardboard boxes on August 13 in the cargo terminal of the capital's airport, said Abdul Kadir Abu Hashim, head of Malaysia'...
How an animal ages depends on what early life was like
Aug 17, 2018 (UPI)
To better understand the link between a wild animal's adolescence and twilight years, researchers at the Australian National University gathered data on 14 diff...
Rare 'bamboo rat' photographed at Machu Picchu
Aug 17, 2018 (AFP)
A specimen of the rodent Dactylomis peruanus was spotted by guards among bamboo trees at the citadel, which is surrounded by a protected area, said the National...
Scientists confirm theory of Darwin's moth
Aug 17, 2018 (UPI)
In the mid-19th century, famed evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin described the divergent forms of Britain's peppered moth, Biston betularia. Darwin realized...
China's rainbow trout gets a new name: 'salmon'
Aug 15, 2018 (AFP)
After fishing for a solution, they came up with an idea: to officially deem the rainbow trout a type of salmon. Over the weekend, China's major rainbow trout pr...
Songbirds can learn new tunes two different ways
Aug 13, 2018 (UPI)
In lab experiments, scientists found zebra finches tasked with differentiating between long and short calls took longer to master the ability when they learned ...
Fresh fears over fate of Macau's abandoned greyhounds
Aug 11, 2018 (AFP)
Some 533 greyhounds still live in cell-like kennels at the shabby Canidrome, Asia's only legal dog-racing track until it closed down last month. Operator Yat Yu...
Hotter temperatures extend growing season for peatland plants
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
The new findings, based on observational data collected at a Department of Energy experimental site, will improve predictive models of environmental change and ...
Those fragrances you enjoy? Dinosaurs liked them first
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
Oregon State University entomologist George Poinar Jr. and his son Greg, a fragrance collector, found evidence that floral scents originated in primitive flower...
WWF uses fake Singapore ivory store in awareness campaign
Aug 08, 2018 (AFP)
The outlet called Ivory Lane purportedly offered items including earrings and necklaces for sale and had a well-produced website, including a price list and ima...
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