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Bacteria under your feet
Jan 25, 2018 (SPX)
They also influence carbon storage, with a direct impact on climate change. A pinch of soil contains thousands of species and millions of bacteria cells, and ou...
How did we evolve to live longer?
Jan 23, 2018 (SPX)
Publishing in Nature Communications, the team of collaborators from the UK, France and Finland and lead by researchers at Newcastle University, UK explain the i...
Breakthrough study shows how plants sense the world
Jan 23, 2018 (SPX)
Only a small portion of these sensing proteins have been studied through classical genetics, and knowledge on how these sensors function by forming complexes wi...
Facebook top choice for Philippines wildlife traders: monitor
Jan 19, 2018 (AFP)
Monitoring network TRAFFIC said Facebook had not done enough to shut down the trade, which saw more than 5,000 reptiles from 115 species put up for sale on its ...
Why don't turtles still have tail spikes?
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
In a study covering 300 million years of evolutionary history, researchers from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science...
Scientists trace mysterious origin of Bornean elephants
Jan 17, 2018 (UPI)
Until now, the origins of the Bornean elephant were a mystery. But the latest analysis, published this week in the journal Scientific Reports, suggests the elep...
New technology will create brain wiring diagrams
Jan 15, 2018 (SOX)
But now, using Drosophila fruit flies, Caltech researchers have developed a method to easily see neural connections and the flow of communications in real time ...
Expert unlocks mechanics of how snakes move in a straight line
Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)
"It's a very good way to move in confined spaces," Jayne said. "A lot of heavy-bodied snakes use this locomotion: vipers, boa constrictors, anacondas and python...
Wolf found in northern Belgium, first time in over 100 years
Jan 13, 2018 (AFP)
"Our country was the only one in continental Europe to have not been visited by a wolf," since the animal began recolonising the continent, Landschap said. Over...
France's first panda cub makes debut appearance
Jan 13, 2018 (AFP)
Yuan Meng, which means "making a dream come true" in Chinese, was introduced into his new enclosure in Beauval zoo in central France along with his mother as ad...
Mass extinctions remove species but not ecological variety
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
But in the seas, a colorful population of marine bivalves - the group including oysters, clams and scallops - soldiered on, tucked into the crevices of ocean fl...
To save grizzly bears, close roads, study suggests
Jan 09, 2018 (UPI)
The roads, of course, aren't the direct threat. Humans are. The closer grizzly bears are to humans, the more likely they are to die. And roads ensure humans and...
What species is most fit for life? All have an equal chance, scientists say
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
In a paper published Jan. 8 in the prestigious journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, a trio of scientists from universities in the United States and the United ...
To prevent spreading infections, ants sacrifice their sick peers
Jan 09, 2018 (UPI)
An international team of scientists from Europe and Australia found Lasius neglectus ants sacrifice peers that have grown too sick to be cared for and nursed ba...
Nomadic population of swift parrots at risk of extinction, research shows
Jan 05, 2018 (UPI)
Scientists collected DNA samples from nestlings on the predator free islands of Bruny and Maria and compared the genetic code to the genome of parrots on Tasman...
The tiny treeshrew defies a pair of evolutionary rules
Jan 05, 2018 (UPI)
According to a new paper published this week in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the common treeshrew, Tupaia glis, flouts both the island rule and Bergmann's...
Tiger mauls Indonesian palm oil plantation worker to death
Jan 04, 2018 (AFP)
Jumiatik, 30, was found dead at the plantation in Riau province on Sumatra island Wednesday with horrific bite wounds on her neck and legs, police said. The vic...
Chinese ban on ivory sales goes into effect
Dec 31, 2017 (AFP)
"From today... the buying and selling of elephant ivory and goods by any market, shop or vendor is against the law!" the forestry ministry said on its official ...
Albania losing its eagle to rampant poaching
Dec 29, 2017 (AFP)
On the side of a national motorway, just 30 kilometres (18 miles) north of the capital Tirana, a vendor offers motorists a common buzzard for an average price o...
Veterinary surgeons perform one-of-a-kind brain surgery on Northern fur seal
Dec 28, 2017 (UPI)
The seal, named Ziggy Star, had exhibited worsening neurological symptoms over several years, moving caretakers to proceed with the risky surgery. Ziggy is now ...
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