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From poacher to ranger: saving China's Siberian tigers
Oct 06, 2017 (AFP)
But instead of stalking the woods for prey, Liang Fengen now roams the hills without a rifle, working as a ranger to save the area's endangered Siberian tiger p...
Non-native species from Japanese tsunami aided by unlikely partner: Plastics
Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)
Co-authored by Oregon State University marine scientists John Chapman and Jessica Miller, the study also suggests that expanded coastal urbanization and storm a...
Examining the lifestyles of microbes
Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists are identifying and characterizing more microbes each year using DNA sequencing technologies. As each new species is sequenced, scientists add it to ...
Tree-dwelling, coconut-cracking giant rat discovered in Solomon Islands
Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)
Mammalogist Tyrone Lavery heard rumors of a giant, possum-like rat that lived in trees and cracked open coconuts with its teeth on his first trip to the Solomon...
Sun bear attacks couple in Indonesia; Giant python attacks man
Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)
The couple were walking through their rubber plantation in Riau province on Tuesday when the animal lunged at the woman, provincial police spokesman Guntur Aryo...
Cats kill more than one million birds per day in Australia
Oct 04, 2017 (UPI)
Data pooled from the dozens of studies showed some 316 million birds are killed by feral cats every year in Australia. Another 61 million birds are killed by pe...
Activists condemn craze for wild animal selfies
Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)
The charity World Animal Protection said in a report that Instagram has seen a 292 percent increase in wildlife selfies since 2014 around the world. Of these, m...
Chinese buyers fuelling ivory surge in Laos, report says
Sep 28, 2017 (AFP)
China, currently the world's largest ivory market, has pledged to phase out its sales by the end of the year but with ivory trinkets still popular among Chinese...
Inside the dark, dangerous world of Mexico's 'moles'
Sep 28, 2017 (AFP)
He hasn't showered in a week, he's been sleeping a few hours a day on the floor of a strip club, and he spends the rest of his time digging through the rubble o...
Panda diplomacy: Two giant pandas from China land in Indonesia
Sep 28, 2017 (AFP)
Cai Tao and Hu Chun, both aged seven, arrived from Sichuan province and will be housed at a safari zoo in Bogor, a city near the capital Jakarta. The pandas wer...
The drying of peatlands is reducing bird diversity
Sep 27, 2017 (SPX)
"The populations of many common peatland birds, such as the wood sandpiper, the meadow pipit, the yellow wagtail and the common reed bunting have gone down in F...
Pandas rebounding, but their habitat isn't: study
Sep 25, 2017 (AFP)
What living space they had was much more fragmented, and often in areas under threat from earthquakes, road construction, tourism or global warming, they wrote ...
Wildlife groups accused of funding abuses against Pygmies in Africa
Sep 25, 2017 (AFP)
Survival International, a British rights group, published a report containing more than 200 reported incidents against the Baka and Bayaka Pygmies in Cameroon, ...
Mathematics predicts a sixth mass extinction
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
The question for many scientists is whether the carbon cycle is now experiencing a significant jolt that could tip the planet toward a sixth mass extinction. In...
Imagining a world without species
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
"I was much struck how entirely vague and arbitrary is the distinction between species and varieties," Darwin wrote in his seminal 1859 work. Categorizing speci...
A study switches from genetic to metabolic analysis to reconstitute evolutionary process
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
Brazilian scientists investigated over Espeletia's diversity and geographic distribution in the paramo; the result, published in an August 2017 article on Scien...
Study: Proteins have 'add-ons,' just like web browsers
Sep 19, 2017 (UPI)
Slowly, researchers are beginning to understand how proteins develop to perform specific functions. Many proteins work only in tandem with another specific prot...
Biggest and smallest creatures at top risk of extinction: study
Sep 18, 2017 (AFP)
For big creatures -- including whale sharks, Atlantic sturgeon, Somali ostriches, Chinese giant salamanders and Komodo dragons -- people are the top threat to t...
Scientists create alternate evolutionary histories in a test tube
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
The study, published this week in Nature by University of Chicago graduate student Tyler Starr and his advisor Professor Joseph Thornton, is the first to subjec...
Study finds wolves understand cause and effect better than dogs
Sep 15, 2017 (UPI)
The study, published today in Scientific Reports, found that domesticated dogs could not make the connection between cause and effect when tested with an object...
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