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At last, butterflies get a bigger, better evolutionary tree
Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)
The result is a treasure trove of scientific information stored in the form of millions of butterfly specimens, offering insights into community ecology, how sp...
World's most venomous spiders are actually cousins
Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)
The spiders in question are those from the families Atracinae and Actinopodidae and include Australian funnel-web spiders and eastern Australian mouse spiders, ...
Borneo orangutans dying off as forests are lost: study
Feb 15, 2018 (AFP)
Illegal hunting of the critically endangered apes is also a leading factor in their disappearance, said the study published in the journal Current Biology. "Our...
Indonesia Sumatran elephant found dead from suspected gunshots
Feb 14, 2018 (AFP)
The female elephant was discovered in Sumatra's Way Kambas National Park on Monday. Her trunk was broken off and she had five holes resembling gunshot wounds on...
The Fastest Spinner On Earth
Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)
"Only about half of all spiders use webs to catch prey," says Dr. Sarah Crews, postdoctoral researcher at the Academy. "Some stalk and pounce, while others are ...
Cells and their genes continue to function after death, study proves
Feb 13, 2018 (UPI)
All of the biological functions that make life possible are powered by our genes -- and specifically, the expression of those genes. Recently, an international ...
AI computer vision breakthrough IDs poachers in less than half a second
Feb 12, 2018 (SPX)
Poachers are normally active at night. While tools such as infrared cameras are used to monitor living organisms, since poachers and animals they are hunting bo...
Suspected poacher eaten by lions in South Africa
Feb 12, 2018 (AFP)
The remains were found at the weekend in the bush at a private game park near Hoedspruit in the northern province of Limpopo, where animals have been poached in...
Praying mantises have a unique way of seeing in 3D
Feb 08, 2018 (UPI)
Human eyes merge the images fielded by each eye, calculating the differences between the two angles to gauge how far away different objects are. The process yie...
Red pandas rescued in Laos stir fears over exotic pet trade
Feb 07, 2018 (AFP)
Landlocked Laos, which borders China and Vietnam, is a key transit hub in the global trade in illegal wildlife, but experts say the discovery of red pandas ther...
Cheetahs' inner ear is one-of-a-kind, vital to high-speed hunting
Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)
The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports and led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History, finds that the inner ear of modern chee...
Rats cooperate, help each other, just like humans
Feb 05, 2018 (UPI)
In experiments conducted at the University of St. Andrews, researchers found rats were more likely to assist their peers with grooming if the peer shared food. ...
All that pecking may give woodpeckers brain damage
Feb 02, 2018 (UPI)
Until now, many assumed woodpeckers had a remarkably resilient brain. Woodpeckers absorb 1,200 to 1,400 g's of force every time they slam their head and beak in...
Lab-on-a-chip for tracking single bacterial cells
Feb 01, 2018 (SPX)
It is hardly bigger than a matchbox and yet there is a laboratory en miniature on this chip. Single bacterial cells grow in about 2000 channels of a thousandth ...
Galapagos hosts nursery for new species of giant tortoise
Feb 01, 2018 (AFP)
Nothing disturbs these eastern Santa Cruz tortoises (scientific name Chelondis donfaustoi), which were determined just two years ago to be a new species native ...
Indonesian orangutan 'beheaders' claim self-defence: police
Feb 01, 2018 (AFP)
The suspects, both rubber plantation workers on the island of Borneo, admitted they killed the critically endangered male Bornean orangutan whose headless body ...
Tasty and pink, sea urchin species may be a climate-tolerant food source
Feb 01, 2018 (SPX)
But another urchin species shows potential to become an alternative fishery in the future, according to a new study published in ICES Journal of Marine Science....
Global takeover by Argentine ants fueled by chemical weapons
Feb 01, 2018 (UPI)
Previous studies have detailed the species' other competitive advantages, like having more than one queen per colony. The species is also extremely adaptable an...
A glimpse in the flora of Southeast Asia puts a spotlight on its conservation
Feb 01, 2018 (SPX)
Entitled "Plant diversity in Southeast Asia" the special issue hosts twelve articles devoted to the cause of promoting awareness the biodiversity richness of th...
Humans get in the way of mammal movement
Jan 29, 2018 (SPX)
An international team of more than 100 co-authors published its findings in the January 26, 2018 issue of the journal Science. While many previous studies have ...
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