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Social bees have kept their gut microbes for 80 million years
Apr 02, 2017 (SPX)
About 80 million years ago, a group of bees began exhibiting social behavior, which includes raising young together, sharing food resources and defending their ...
Testing effects of 'noise' on the decision-making abilities of slime mold
Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)
Foraging abilities of the amoeboid slime mold Physarum polycephalum may be improved by "noise" in the form of intermittent light exposure, according to a study ...
How do plants make oxygen? Ask cyanobacteria
Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)
The ability to generate oxygen through photosynthesis - that helpful service performed by plants and algae, making life possible for humans and animals on Earth...
Considered extinct, Tasmanian tigers may be alive and kicking
Mar 31, 2017 (UPI)
Tasmanian Tigers once roamed Australia before the last captive thylacine died in 1936. Or so it was believed. But they weren't really tigers. And they might not...
Dust helps regulate Sierra Nevada ecosystems
Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)
"Collecting dust" isn't usually considered a good thing. But dust from as near as the Central Valley and as far away as the Gobi Desert in Asia provides more nu...
Manatees are no longer endangered: US
Mar 30, 2017 (AFP)
Manatees are no longer an endangered species, US officials said Thursday, declaring success after decades of efforts to rebuild the population of the chubby sea...
Hope for elephants as ivory prices fall: conservationists
Mar 29, 2017 (AFP)
The price of ivory has fallen by nearly two-thirds in the last three years, according to research conducted in China and published Wednesday by the conservation...
Indonesian man found dead inside giant python
Mar 29, 2017 (AFP)
An Indonesian farmer has been discovered inside the belly of a giant python after the swollen snake was caught near where the man vanished while harvesting his ...
Study details risks faced by locally abundant but isolated endangered species
Mar 28, 2017 (UPI)
Even as the population of an endangered species declines more broadly, the species can become locally abundant. But as new research shows, locally abundant but ...
Wild elephants rescued from muddy bomb crater in Cambodia
Mar 25, 2017 (AFP)
Eleven wild elephants, including a baby, were rescued from a mud-filled bomb crater in Cambodia on Saturday after languishing in the swampy waters for four days...
It's a fish eat tree world
Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)
Most of the planet's freshwater stores are found in the northern hemisphere, a region that is changing rapidly in response to human activity and shifting climat...
Making 'mulch' ado of ant hills
Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)
Ants can be annoying little insects. In your home, they make army-like lines to any crumbs on your floor. In your home's frame, carpenter ants can do a job of e...
Five frozen, gutted tigers found in Vietnam
Mar 21, 2017 (AFP)
Five frozen tigers have been discovered in a Vietnamese man's freezer with their organs removed, according to official reports Tuesday, in a country seen as a g...
Wild chimpanzees have surprisingly long life spans
Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)
A 20-year demographic study of a large chimpanzee community in Uganda's Kibale National Park has revealed that, under the right ecological conditions, our close...
Bone surgery for El Salvador's last male jaguar
Mar 21, 2017 (AFP)
Vets in El Salvador's zoo carried out an operation Monday to clean up a bone infection in the country's last male jaguar, an 18-year-old named Greco. The big ca...
What triggers salmon migrations?
Mar 20, 2017 (UPI)
Salmon migrate upstream in a unique pulse-like pattern. Biologists have observed the pattern in streams and rivers all over the world. But why? "The folk wisdom...
Microbes adapt to colonize different body parts
Mar 20, 2017 (UPI)
Different microbes specialize in colonizing different parts of the human body. New research by Duke scientists shows microbes diverged into new species as they ...
Pregnant giraffe April now 'carrying everything a bit towards the rear'
Mar 19, 2017 (UPI)
Millions of online followers have been tracking the progress of April, a pregnant giraffe at Animal Adventure Park, a zoo in Upstate New York. On Sunday, zookee...
Lebanon rescues 3 Siberian tiger cubs en route to Syria
Mar 18, 2017 (AFP)
An animal rights group in Lebanon is caring for three dehydrated, maggot-infested Siberian tiger cubs that were rescued on their way to a zoo in neighbouring wa...
New plant research solves a colorful mystery
Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)
Research led by scientists at the John Innes Centre has solved a long-standing mystery by deducing how and why strange yet colourful structures called 'anthocya...
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