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Israel's batwoman works in secret to heal winged friends
Jul 01, 2016 (AFP)
Call her Israel's batwoman. She works in secret, out of an erstwhile chicken coop in central Israel that has become shelter to hundreds of fruit bats being nurs...
Sri Lanka's latest status symbol, a baby elephant
Jul 01, 2016 (AFP)
Expensive and high-maintenance, baby elephants have become the ultimate status symbol for Sri Lanka's wealthy elite -- a trend that has horrified conservationis...
Frigate birds soar without landing for weeks at a time
Jun 30, 2016 (UPI)
New data has revealed frigate birds as the animal kingdom's most prolific soarers. A team of researchers led by Henri Weimerskirch, an ornithologist at the Nati...
Elephantnose fish has a small brain but astounding performance
Jun 29, 2016 (SPX)
The elephantnose fish explores objects in its surroundings by using its eyes or its electrical sense - sometimes both together. Zoologists at the University of ...
Fix for 3-billion-year-old genetic error could improve genetic sequencing
Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)
For 3 billion years, one of the major carriers of information needed for life, RNA, has had a glitch that creates errors when making copies of genetic informati...
Kenya's jumbo 'ele-fence' to stop human-wildlife conflict
Jun 24, 2016 (AFP)
Machete in hand, Kenyan farmer Paul Njoroge points at the broken branches and giant footprints where elephants trampled his bananas, maize, potatoes and sugar c...
New protection for photosynthetic organisms
Jun 23, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a previously unknown strategy photosynthetic organisms use to protect themselves from the dange...
Exotic pet trade sends Florida bird rescues soaring
Jun 22, 2016 (AFP)
In this small animal hospital perched on Miami's sun-splashed harbor, some of the most exotic creatures fly in and out of Carla Zepeda's life. From peacocks to ...
Mother mongooses may risk death to protect unborn children
Jun 21, 2016 (SPX)
Mothers will do anything to protect their children, but mongooses go a step further. Mongooses risk their own survival to protect their unborn children through ...
Rare, blind catfish never before found in US discovered in national park cave in Texas
Jun 21, 2016 (SPX)
An extremely rare eyeless catfish species previously known to exist only in Mexico has been discovered in Texas. Dean Hendrickson, curator of ichthyology at The...
New imaging method reveals nanoscale details about DNA
Jun 21, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have developed a new enhanced DNA imaging technique that can probe the structure of individual DNA strands at the nanoscale. Since DNA is at the roo...
Obama touts environmental record on family outing to national parks
Jun 18, 2016 (AFP)
President Barack Obama and the first family celebrated America's cherished natural heritage Saturday during a weekend tour marking the 100th anniversary of the ...
How the butterfly got its spots
Jun 17, 2016 (SPX)
By tweaking just one or two genes, Cornell University researchers have altered the patterns on a butterfly's wings. It's not just a new art form, but a major cl...
Frozen in time: India's last taxidermist keeps on stuffing
Jun 17, 2016 (AFP)
When Santosh Gaikwad, India's last-known practising taxidermist, first started stuffing animals 13 years ago he would keep dead birds in his family's freezer at...
Eastern US needs 'connectivity' to help species escape climate change
Jun 16, 2016 (SPX)
For plants and animals fleeing rising temperatures, varying precipitation patterns and other effects of climate change, the eastern United States will need impr...
Current diversity pattern of North American mammals a 'recent' trend, study finds
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
It's called the latitudinal diversity gradient, a phenomenon seen today in most plant and animal species around the world: Biodiversity decreases from the equat...
Study gives new meaning to the term 'bird brain'
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
The macaw has a brain the size of an unshelled walnut, while the macaque monkey has a brain about the size of a lemon. Nevertheless, the macaw has more neurons ...
Sanctuary offers hope for endangered Philippine eagle
Jun 15, 2016 (AFP)
Surprisingly loud chirps accompany a clumsy flurry of tiny wings as a wispy-haired chick breaks through its shell, its birth offering rare cause for celebration...
Exotic animals from Italy's underworld get second chance
Jun 14, 2016 (AFP)
In ancient Rome, they would have been pitted against gladiators or served up at banquets. Now a caiman, a python and a troop of monkeys that have been confiscat...
Cats use simple physics to zero in on hiding prey
Jun 14, 2016 (UPI)
Experiments by researchers at Kyoto University in Japan suggest cats have rudimentary understanding of physics and the principle of cause and effect. Previous s...
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