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Animals who face tough early life live longer
Feb 13, 2017 (UPI)
Helicopter parents be warned, new research suggests early strife paves the way for longevity. Scientists at the University of Exeter measured the effect of earl...
Climate change responsible for the great diversity in horses
Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)
Changing environments and ecosystems were driving the evolution of horses over the past 20 million years. This is the main conclusion of a new study published i...
The firefly among fish
Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers thus identified the purposes of bioluminescence in this fish species. The same question still remains open for many other glowing marine creatur...
The diversity of species on Earth is generating itself
Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)
If competition is the main evolutionary driver, why can so many species coexist within the same ecosystem instead to have a few that dominate? This a long and c...
Chinese police probe endangered animal banquet
Feb 09, 2017 (AFP)
Chinese authorities are investigating a banquet where government officials may have feasted on endangered pangolins, considered the most trafficked mammal on ea...
Trump wall could harm butterfly's migration: Mexican official
Feb 09, 2017 (AFP)
The monarch butterfly population dropped by a quarter in its Mexican wintering grounds this season and US President Donald Trump's planned wall could affect its...
Tiny organisms with a massive impact
Feb 08, 2017 (SPX)
Diatoms are a very common group of algae found not only in freshwater streams, rivers and lakes, but also in marine waters. These unicellular organisms are part...
What role does electromagnetic signaling have in biological systems
Feb 08, 2017 (SPX)
For decades scientists have wondered whether electromagnetic waves might play a role in intra- and inter-cell signaling. Researchers have suggested since the 19...
New research on why plant tissues have a sense of direction
Feb 08, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists at the John Innes Centre, Norwich have published new evidence that plant tissues can have a preferred direction of growth and that this characteristi...
Killing off rivals makes for happy families, bacteria study finds
Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)
A grisly method by which bacteria dispatch their distant relatives also creates conditions in which the attackers can thrive, research has found. Families of ba...
Thai cops seize record three tonnes of pangolin scales
Feb 02, 2017 (AFP)
Thai customs police on Thursday unveiled a massive three-tonne cache of seized pangolin scales intended for Asia's lucrative wildlife markets, where feverish de...
Italy bows to howls over anti-wolf campaign
Feb 02, 2017 (AFP)
Italy on Thursday put on hold a controversial plan to cull five percent of its wolves, much to the relief of environmentalists and animal lovers who had mobilis...
Invasive wild pig populations continue to grow, spread through US
Feb 02, 2017 (UPI)
Wild invasive pigs are wreaking havoc on North American ecosystems, a new report warns. "Feral swine cause major damage to property, agriculture (crops and live...
Four Bengal tigers born in El Salvador animal park
Feb 01, 2017 (AFP)
Four Bengal tigers have been born in an El Salvador animal park that runs an endangered-species reproduction program, the facility announced Wednesday. The cubs...
Beleaguered bees hit by 'deformed wing virus'
Feb 01, 2017 (AFP)
A wing-deforming virus shortens the lifespan of wild honeybees already contending with a startlingly long list of existential threats, researchers said Wednesda...
Boxer crabs acquire anemones by stealing from each other, and splitting them into clones
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers have described a little known yet fascinating aspect of the behavior of Lybia crabs, a species which holds sea anemones in each of its claws (behavi...
Researchers develop label-free technique to image microtubules
Jan 31, 2017 (SPX)
Imaging very small materials takes not only great skill on the part of the microscopist, but also great instruments and techniques. For a refined microscopic lo...
Where the wild things are
Jan 31, 2017 (SPX)
As climate change and biological invasions continue to impact global biodiversity, scientists at Colorado State University and the University of Colorado-Boulde...
Rapid trait evolution crucial to species growth
Jan 31, 2017 (SPX)
Rapid evolution at the edges of a given species habitat may play a larger role in population expansions than previously suspected, according to the results of a...
Plants emit different odors when eaten by invasive species
Jan 31, 2017 (UPI)
According to a new study, plants put out a unique combination of volatile compounds when attacked by exotic pests. Plants have developed a diverse array of defe...
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