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Record haul of pangolin scales seized in Malaysia
May 08, 2017 (AFP)
The 712kg (1,570 pound) haul worth 9,184,800 ringgit ($2.12 million) was made last week in two separate seizures. On May 2, eight gunny sacks of the scales weig...
Scientists suggest the world should brace itself for a new wave of biological invasions
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
Invasive non-native species are among the greatest drivers of biodiversity loss on the planet and cost the British economy Pounds 1.7bn each year. "Our study fo...
New NMR technique offers 'molecular window' into living organisms
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
"In a way we've developed this molecular window that can look inside a living system and extract a full metabolic profile," says Professor Andre Simpson, who le...
Wolves return to Denmark for first time in 200 years
May 04, 2017 (AFP)
The predators came from Germany to settle in western Denmark's agricultural region, the least densely populated in the Scandinavian country. Peter Sunde, scient...
Morocco fights to save its iconic monkey
May 03, 2017 (AFP)
Harrad spends his time crisscrossing northern Morocco to try to convince locals to protect the endangered monkey. The only species of macaque outside Asia, whic...
Scientists uncover substance telling ants which will become queens
May 03, 2017 (UPI)
A team from North Carolina State University studied Indian jumping ants, or Harpegnathos saltator, have found the princess pheromone is released to tell ants wh...
Rare albino orangutan rescued on Borneo island
May 02, 2017 (AFP)
In an extremely unusual discovery, authorities picked up the female, estimated to be five years old, in a remote village in Kapuas Hulu district. The Borneo Ora...
Invasive Asian clam makes its North American debut
May 01, 2017 (UPI)
Scientists discovered the new clam while searching for the scaleshell, Leptodea leptodon, an endangered species of freshwater mussel. Instead, researchers notic...
Scientists find new population of endangered cats in Borneo
Apr 28, 2017 (UPI)
A male bay cat was spotted by one of 52 camera traps set up in Rungan Landscape in Central Kalimantan, a region of remote forest in Indonesian Borneo where bay ...
Humans alter Earth's chemistry from beyond the grave
Apr 26, 2017 (AFP)
Whether our bodies are buried or cremated, they leach iron, zinc, sulphur, calcium and phosphorus into ground that may later be used as farms, forests or parks....
Sri Lanka overturns ban on adopting elephants
Apr 26, 2017 (AFP)
Elephants are revered as holy in the mainly Buddhist nation, where the high-maintenance beasts have become a status symbol for the wealthy elite. The animals ar...
How Venus flytrap triggers digestion
Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)
Although postulated since Darwin's pioneering studies, these secretory events have not been measured and analysed until now: An international team of researcher...
Mammoths suffered from diseases that are typical for people
Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)
According to the scientist, the remains of mammoths that lived about 12,000 -13,000 years ago (ca BP) in the area of modern Yakutia are perfectly preserved. Bon...
European salamander at risk of extinction: study
Apr 20, 2017 (AFP)
Even a small amount of the highly infectious pathogen could wipe out fire salamanders from Western Europe, as the amphibian lacks the immune response to fight i...
Why don't fish freeze to death in icy water
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
Fish can survive even in subzero environments, such as under ice floes. Researchers have hypothesized that when glycoproteins contained in fish blood are absorb...
Ants rescue their injured
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
These attacks, however, are met with resistance and the ants get involved in fights with termites of the soldier caste. Injury and mortality can occur during su...
Endangered Galapagos tortoises saved from suspected traffickers
Apr 20, 2017 (AFP)
Peruvian wildlife authorities found 29 small tortoises -- two of them dead -- in a cardboard box on a bus on its way from northern Peru to Lima. Officials made ...
Study helps explain how flowers evolved to get pollinators to specialize
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
The paper, "'Hummingbird' floral traits interact synergistically to discourage visitation by bumble bee foragers," demonstrates that traits of so-called "hummin...
Can coyotes fill the ecological gaps left by lost wolf populations?
Apr 20, 2017 (UPI)
The research, led by John Benson, an ecologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, fits into the larger scientific effort to understand the roles predators p...
Florida manatees likely to persist for at least 100 years
Apr 19, 2017 (SPX)
The study, conducted by a team of veteran manatee scientists, estimated there is less than a one-half of one percent chance that either Florida's Atlantic or it...
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