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Scientists discover strange new water bear species
Mar 01, 2018 (UPI)
Tardigrades are the eight-legged micro-animals that appear both adorable and freakish, and have earned a reputation as the toughest animals on planet Earth. Kaz...
Birds are essential to the dispersion of rare wild chili pepper seeds
Feb 28, 2018 (UPI)
When a team of scientists set out to better understand the mutually beneficial relationships formed between fruit-bearing plants and fruit-eating species, they ...
The giant wave that marks the beginning of the end - the neurobiology of dying
Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)
Oxygen deprivation results in brain injury. For years, researchers have been studying the underlying processes in animals: within 20 to 40 seconds, the brain en...
The Australian government's plan for the biocontrol of the common carp presents several risks
Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)
On a global scale, the common carp (Cyprinus carpio) is one of the most important fish species in fish farming. Its annual production ranges between 4 and 5 mil...
Why are there so many types of lizards?
Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)
Spreading through the Americas, one lizard group, the anoles, evolved like Darwin's finches, adapting to different islands and different habitats on the mainlan...
Today's elephants don't interbreed like ancient species
Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)
Today, the two kinds of living elephants in Africa -- savanna and forest elephants -- are indeed different species but researchers found no recent evidence that...
Malaysia elephant sanctuary trumpets effort to cut human-animal conflict
Feb 25, 2018 (AFP)
The sanctuary in Kuala Gandah, central Malaysia, is an area of secluded rainforest where "mahouts" -- as the keepers are known -- care for a 26-strong group of ...
Corporations key to rescuing nature, says WWF chief
Feb 25, 2018 (AFP)
For some, it still does. Even Pavan Sukhdev -- recently appointed president of World Wildlife Fund International after a quarter century at ANZ Banking and Deut...
Indonesian woman mauled to death by crocodile
Feb 24, 2018 (AFP)
The Indonesian woman's family and neighbours launched a search after she failed to return home from a riverside garden near the remote village of Teluk Kuali in...
Scientists create 'Evolutionwatch' for plants
Feb 22, 2018 (SPX)
The oldest plant, preserved in a herbarium, was from 1863. At this time, the scientists estimate the species had already more than 200 years in the New World be...
All the wild horses are extinct: study
Feb 22, 2018 (AFP)
What most people thought were the last remaining wild horses on Earth -- known as Przewalski's horses -- were actually domesticated horses that escaped their ow...
The conflict between males and females could replace the evolution of new species
Feb 22, 2018 (SPX)
According to Darwin's theory of natural selection, first introduced in his book On the Origin of Species (1859), new environments such as mountains and islands ...
Kin of 'world's ugliest animal' among fish hauled off Australia abyss
Feb 21, 2018 (AFP)
Scientists spent a month last year on a vessel off the country's eastern seaboard surveying life lurking up to 4.8 kilometres (2.9 miles) below the surface, usi...
Tasmanian tiger just another marsupial in the pouch
Feb 21, 2018 (AFP)
Using CT technology, they scanned all 13 juvenile specimens of the extinct carnivore found in collections around the world, developing the first 3D models of th...
Gray squirrels are smarter than red squirrels, research shows
Feb 20, 2018 (UPI)
When scientists presented the two squirrel species with a pair of tasks designed to gauge an animal's intelligence and problem solving talents, they found the g...
New phagocytosis model predicts which cells can eat other cells
Feb 20, 2018 (UPI)
The research, detailed this week in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, could help scientists more accurately simulate the evolution of early complex life...
Footage shows 'dumbo' octopod hatchling looks like a miniature adult
Feb 19, 2018 (UPI)
Dumbo octopods are a group of Cirrate octopods occupying the deep sea. They comprise the largest invertebrates found at the lowest depths of the ocean, and they...
France to let wolf packs grow despite angry farmers
Feb 19, 2018 (AFP)
A new strategy unveiled by the centrist government of President Emmanuel Macron will enable the number of wolves to increase from an estimated 360 now to 500 by...
Indonesians arrested for shooting an orangutan some 130 times
Feb 19, 2018 (AFP)
The suspects, farmers from the island of Borneo, admitted killing the animal, saying it ruined their crops at a pineapple and palm oil plantation, according to ...
In Kenya, anti-poaching dogs are wildlife's best friends
Feb 19, 2018 (AFP)
Straining at the leash, she pulls her handler along an invisible scent path laid down for her until she finds a ranger hiding in the grass, pretending to be one...
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