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Manipulating memory with light
Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)
Just look into the light: not quite, but researchers at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology have used light to erase specific memo...
Tiny travellers of the animal world: Hitchhikers on marine driftwood
Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)
A new study led by a Canadian marine zoologist reviews the world list of specialist driftwood talitrids, which so far comprises a total of 7 representatives, in...
Plant communities in Holy Land can cope with climate change of 'biblical' dimensions
Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)
An international research team comprised of German, Israeli and American ecologists, including Dr. Claus Holzapfel, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Rutgers Univer...
No single explanation for biodiversity in Madagascar
Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)
No single "one-size-fits-all" model can explain how biodiversity hotspots come to be, finds a study of more than 700 species of reptiles and amphibians on the A...
The Cichlids' Egg-Spots: How Evolution Creates new Characteristics
Oct 11, 2014 (SPX)
The evolution of new traits with novel functions has always posed a challenge to evolutionary biology. Studying the color markings of cichlid fish, Swiss scient...
Ancient rhino-relatives were water-loving
Oct 11, 2014 (SPX)
The discovery of new bones from a large land mammal that lived about 48 million years ago has led scientists to identify a new branch of mammals closely related...
On invasive species, Darwin had it right all along
Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)
Dov Sax of Brown University and Jason Fridley of Syracuse University aren't proposing a novel idea to explain species invasiveness. In fact, Charles Darwin arti...
Are Montana's invasive fish in for a shock?
Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)
A new paper from the Wildlife Conservation Society, Montana State University, Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, and the U.S. Geological Survey loo...
Research Confirms Controversial Darwin Theory of Jump Dispersal
Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)
More than one hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin hypothesized that species could cross oceans and other vast distances on vegetation rafts, icebergs, o...
Creepy Crawlers Play Key Role in Structure of Grasslands
Oct 07, 2014 (SPX)
When asked to describe a forest or a meadow, most people would probably begin with the plants, the species diversity, or the color of the foliage. They probably...
Interpol announces special team to combat illegal ivory trafficking
Oct 07, 2014 (AFP)
International police organisation Interpol announced Tuesday it would establish a team to target ivory trafficking and more generally, environmental crime, in A...
Washington State lets citizens name discovered wolf packs
Oct 06, 2014 (UPI)
Three men in Washington State have now had the honor of choosing a wolf pack's name after each located previously undiscovered wolf pairs and pups. After offici...
Two bison reintroduced in Romania die of bluetongue disease
Oct 06, 2014 (AFP)
Two of 17 European bison released this spring in Romania's Carpathian mountains where they had become extinct due to poaching have died of bluetongue disease, t...
UN biodiversity meet warns of unmet targets
Oct 06, 2014 (AFP)
A UN conference on preserving the earth's dwindling resources opened Monday with grim warnings that the depletion of natural habitats and species was outpacing ...
Thousands march worldwide for rhino, elephant protection
Oct 05, 2014 (AFP)
Thousands marched in Africa and around the world Saturday to pressure governments to do more to stop the poaching industry that many fear is driving rhinos and ...
Nations seek money, willpower to save biodiversity
Oct 04, 2014 (AFP)
Amid fresh warnings about the depletion of Earth's treasure trove of species, governments will gather in South Korea next week to try to muster the funds and po...
Wyoming gubernatorial candidate wants wolf hunt, ignores feds
Oct 03, 2014 (UPI)
Wyoming Independent gubernatorial candidate Don Wills says the state's wolf hunt should continue as planned. Wills recently called on the current governor and o...
Stowaway species threaten biodiversity
Oct 03, 2014 (AFP)
In the early 1980s, the North American comb jellyfish quit its Atlantic home, hid away in the belly of a cargo ship and headed for the Black Sea. By just over a...
US reduces Indonesian debt in exchange for wildlife protection
Oct 03, 2014 (AFP)
The United States has struck a deal to reduce Indonesia's debts in exchange for Jakarta pledging about $12 million for programmes to protect endangered species ...
New approach can predict impact of climate change on species
Oct 03, 2014 (SPX)
When scientists talk about the consequences of climate change, it can mean more than how we human beings will be impacted by higher temperatures, rising seas an...
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