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A horse is a horse, of course, of course - except when it isn't
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
The new findings, published November 28 in the journal eLife, are based on an analysis of ancient DNA from fossils of the enigmatic "New World stilt-legged hors...
Climate change: can hummingbirds take the heat?
Dec 06, 2017 (AFP)
With hearts beating more than 1,000 times a minute, hummingbirds need to feed constantly, which means they can ill afford to spend time dodging sunshine, accord...
African protected area can support 10s of thousands of elephants
Dec 06, 2017 (SPX)
Niassa Reserve is Mozambique's largest protected area, spanning 42,300 square kilometers (16,300 square miles), and is considered one of the least biologically ...
Cambodia seizes shipment of ivory hidden in hollow logs
Dec 06, 2017 (AFP)
The country has become a key regional transit point for the illicit wildlife trade. Nearly 280 pieces of ivory -- full and partial elephant tusks -- were found ...
Genetic tool that can doom a species under UN review
Dec 05, 2017 (AFP)
Others fear that the genetic engineering process is a one-way ticket to ecological mayhem, or suspect health and conservation aims are masking industrial and mi...
'Whodunnit', as Aussie reptiles go extinct: study
Dec 05, 2017 (AFP)
Lister's gecko, the blue-tailed skink and the Christmas Island forest-skink were downgraded from "critically endangered" to "extinct in the wild" in the Interna...
Sumatra's receding forests pushing tigers to the brink
Dec 05, 2017 (AFP)
The imposing carnivore has already disappeared from the neighbouring Indonesian islands of Java and Bali, and if its remaining refuge continues to shrink so wil...
Medium-sized carnivores most vulnerable to environmental shifts
Dec 04, 2017 (UPI)
Until now, scientists thought foraging time decreased with body size: the bigger the animal, the less time the animal spends foraging. But new research by scien...
Five arrested over elephant killing in Sri Lanka
Dec 01, 2017 (AFP)
Villagers in the island's northwest had alerted wildlife authorities after a popular local elephant called "Dala Poottuwa", or crossed tusker, disappeared. Its ...
China seizes 12 tonnes of endangered pangolin scales
Nov 30, 2017 (AFP)
The pangolin, whose brown scales have earned it the nickname "scaly anteater", is the most hunted animal in the world, with one million estimated to have been p...
The Yeti of the Himalayas is probably an Asian bear, DNA shows
Nov 29, 2017 (UPI)
Several museums and private collections hold what is claimed to be physical evidence of the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, the mythical human-like creature believ...
Plant respiration could become a bigger feedback on climate than expected
Nov 27, 2017 (SPX)
The new findings, published in the journal Nature Communications today [November 17th] are based on the comprehensive GlobResp database, which comprises over 10...
Carbon emissions by plant respiration will have large impact on climate
Nov 27, 2017 (SPX)
The new findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, are based on the comprehensive GlobResp database, which is comprised of more than 10,000 measu...
Canadian mice adapt to warming by mutating, moving north: study
Nov 27, 2017 (AFP)
The study, published in the journal Evolutionary Ecology, found that "milder winters have led to physical alterations in two species of mice in southern Quebec ...
Genetic mutation in extended Amish family protects against aging
Nov 27, 2017 (SPX)
An experimental "longevity" drug that recreates the effect of the mutation is now being tested in human trials to see if it provides protection against some agi...
New butterfly species with 46 chromosomes discovered in Russia
Nov 27, 2017 (UPI)
When Vladimir Lukhtanov, entomologist and evolutionary biologist at the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg, first captured and analyzed specimens of the Sou...
New NASA Insights into the Secret Lives of Plants
Nov 27, 2017 (JPL)
From rainforests to croplands, boreal forests to mangroves, NASA will take a new look at terrestrial vegetation across our living planet over the next two years...
Jonathan, St. Helena's ancient tortoise, awaits visitors
Nov 26, 2017 (AFP)
Aged at least 185 -- though no one knows for certain -- Jonathan should prepare himself for an influx of visitors now that an airport has opened on the small is...
How can you define nature
Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)
Now consider: What was this place like in your parents' time? Your grandparents'? In many cases, the parks, beaches and campgrounds of today are surrounded by m...
Raging debate: Does culling wolves curb poaching?
Nov 22, 2017 (AFP)
Many regional and national governments in Europe and North America have long promoted the controlled killing of wolves, bears and big cats -- some of them endan...
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