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Bizarre parasite from the Jurassic
Jun 30, 2014 (SPX)
Around 165 million years ago, a spectacular parasite was at home in the freshwater lakes of present-day Inner Mongolia (China): A fly larva with a thorax formed...
How repeatable is evolutionary history?
Jun 30, 2014 (SPX)
Writing about the weird soft-bodied fossils found in the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould noted that of 25 initial body p...
Evolution depends on rare chance events
Jun 25, 2014 (SPX)
Chance events may profoundly shape history. What if Franz Ferdinand's driver had not taken a wrong turn, bringing the Duke face to face with his assassin? Would...
Planet of the dying apes: experts sound alarm over shrinking habitats
Jun 25, 2014 (AFP)
The accelerated and unsustainable exploitation of the earth's primary natural resources has become a major threat to apes in Africa and Asia, a major United Nat...
In wild yak society, moms are the real climbers
Jun 25, 2014 (SPX)
A new study led by the Wildlife Conservation Society says that in wild yak societies, it's the mothers that are the real climbers. The study found that mothers ...
Why Species Matter
Jun 24, 2014 (SPX)
UC Santa Barbara doctoral candidate Caitlin Fong travels to French Polynesia often but not for vacation. She goes there to study a coral reef ecosystem influenc...
Limb regeneration: Do salamanders hold the key?
Jun 24, 2014 (SPX)
The secret of how salamanders successfully regrow body parts is being unravelled by UCL researchers in a bid to apply it to humans. For the first time, research...
Maybe birds can have it all: Dazzling colors and pretty songs
Jun 24, 2014 (SPX)
A study of one of the world's largest and most colorful bird families has dispelled a long-held notion, first proposed by Charles Darwin, that animals are limit...
Wildlife crime bankrolling terror, militia groups: UN
Jun 24, 2014 (AFP)
Global environmental crime is worth up to $213 billion a year and helping to finance criminal and terrorist groups threatening security and sustainable developm...
Monarch butterfly uses magnetic, Sun compasses: study
Jun 24, 2014 (AFP)
The North American monarch butterfly uses the Sun as well as Earth's magnetic field as navigational tools for its famous long-distance migration, scientists sai...
Animal trapping records reveal strong wolf effect across North America
Jun 24, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists have used coyote and red fox fur trapping records across North America to document how the presence of wolves influences the balance of smaller preda...
UN launches first global environmental assembly
Jun 23, 2014 (AFP)
The United Nations on Monday launched a week-long global environment conference aimed at tackling challenges from poaching to marine pollution and boosting the ...
Surprising spread of spring leaf-out times
Jun 23, 2014 (SPX)
Despite conventional wisdom among gardeners, foresters and botanists that woody plants all "leaf out" at about the same time each spring, a new study organized ...
China animal protectors at cross-porpoises
Jun 23, 2014 (AFP)
China's river porpoises are rarer than pandas, but fishermen fighting to save them have been snared by a net of blackmail allegations, highlighting uncertaintie...
Quantum biology: Algae evolved to switch quantum coherence on and off
Jun 23, 2014 (SPX)
A UNSW Australia-led team of researchers has discovered how algae that survive in very low levels of light are able to switch on and off a weird quantum phenome...
Exploring a parasitic tunnel boring machine
Jun 20, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers have deduced essential biological and genetic information from the genome sequence of the whipworm, an intestinal parasitic worm that infects hundre...
WWF raises alarm over Mozambique elephant killings
Jun 19, 2014 (AFP)
The WWF on Thursday raised the alarm over plummeting elephant populations in Mozambique after an aerial survey showed ivory poaching is decimating herds in the ...
Huge haul of rare anteater scales seized in Hong Kong
Jun 17, 2014 (AFP)
Hong Kong customs officials have seized $2 million-worth of scales from the endangered pangolin, or "scaly anteater", authorities said Tuesday, in their biggest...
Making new species without sex
Jun 16, 2014 (SPX)
Occasionally, two different plant species interbreed with each other in nature. This usually causes problems since the genetic information of both parents does ...
Great white sharks plentiful off US west coast
Jun 16, 2014 (AFP)
Great white sharks are likely rising in numbers off the coast of California and are not at risk of extinction despite some reports to the contrary, US researche...
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