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Skin cure fad driving Myanmar elephant poaching surge: WWF
Jun 05, 2017 (AFP)
Hunters are increasingly targeting mothers and calves, using poisoned arrows to inflict a slow and agonising death before stripping them of their skin, the wild...
How the Galapagos cormorant lost its ability to fly
Jun 05, 2017 (SPX)
In a new study unraveling the cormorant's DNA, UCLA scientists discovered genetic changes that transpired during the past 2 million years and contributed to the...
How and why did a house swift cross the Pacific
Jun 01, 2017 (UPI)
But new research confirms the intrepid traveler is indeed a house swift, Apus nipalensis, and likely made the trek across the Pacific unassisted. Scientists wit...
Humans pose ever-bigger extinction risk to animals: review
May 31, 2017 (AFP)
Facing the highest level of threat are more than 360 species of large mammals in Africa, Asia and South America -- the most biodiverse regions of the world, sai...
Panda stars get first taste of life in The Netherlands
May 30, 2017 (AFP)
Female Wu Wen (Beautiful Powerful Cloud) and her male companion Xing Ya (Elegant Star) were making their public debut, marking the culmination of a 16-year drea...
Genetic mutation trade-offs lead to parallel evolution
May 26, 2017 (SPX)
While heritable genetic mutations can alter phenotypic traits and enable populations to adapt to their environment, adaptation is frequently limited by trade-of...
Why the fate of a tiny Rio Grande fish is so important
May 25, 2017 (UPI)
"I just think it's going to be a really good year for the minnow," said Carolyn Donnelly, a water operations supervisor at the Albuquerque office of the United ...
How do blind cavefish find their way? The answer could be in their bones.
May 25, 2017 (SPX)
The limestone caverns of Mexico's Sierra del Abra Tanchipa rainforest contain deep cisterns cloaked in utter blackness. This is where researchers at the Univers...
Tokyo zoo visitors flock to view mum-to-be panda
May 24, 2017 (AFP)
Eleven-year-old Shin Shin, who mated with male Ri Ri February, appeared imperiously unruffled by the attention as she sat munching on bamboo and playfully rubbe...
Young birds migrating to Africa dispersed by winds, study shows
May 24, 2017 (UPI)
Because satellite tracking technology doesn't come cheap, scientists are reluctant to attach their equipment to young birds. Many juveniles don't survive their ...
Scientists kill invasive ants with seaweed
May 19, 2017 (UPI)
In tests, researchers at the University of California, Riverside successfully reduced Argentine ant populations between 40 to 68 percent after four weeks of exp...
After 10-year gap, Thai lotuses bloom again
May 19, 2017 (AFP)
The sea of colour in Khao Sam Roi Yot national park, three hours south of Bangkok, is a show-stopping feat of nature that has locals hoping for a tourist bonanz...
The first microbial supertree from figure-mining thousands of papers
May 17, 2017 (SPX)
Seeking to address the problem through their PLUTo workflow, British scientists Ross Mounce and Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge and Matthew Wills, Un...
Cornell researches black bear boom in New York
May 17, 2017 (SPX)
New Cornell University research, published in the March issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management, estimates the densities of black bears in southern New York...
New Zealand's penguins facing extinction, scientists warn
May 16, 2017 (UPI)
The new research considered a variety factors driving the decline of the yellow-eyed penguin. Researchers suggest climate change, including rising sea surface t...
Malaysia seizes smuggled tortoises worth $300,000
May 15, 2017 (AFP)
The 330 ploughshare and radiated tortoises seized at Kuala Lumpur International Airport Sunday were worth $276,784, Abdul Wahid Sulong, deputy director of the c...
Indonesian rangers dismantle traps to save wildlife
May 14, 2017 (AFP)
Scientists and conservationists consider the Leuser Ecosystem, which falls mostly within Aceh province on Sumatra island, to be among the most important forests...
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria first emerged at least 450 million years ago
May 11, 2017 (UPI)
As a new survey of the evolution of antibiotic resistance revealed, the earliest relatives of modern superbugs -- microbes undeterred by antibiotics -- emerged ...
New method of microbial energy production discovered
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
Now researchers have discovered a third method of microbial energy production, called "flavin-based electron bifurcation" (FBEB). This newly found method is act...
In brain evolution, size matters most of the time
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
The study of 58 species of songbirds also found that once a species evolved a larger brain, brain regions that control the beak and mouth, and the area for song...
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