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One of the last strongholds for Western chimpanzees
Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)
When Liberia enters the news it is usually in the context of civil war, economic crisis, poverty or a disease outbreak such as the recent emergence of Ebola in ...
Kenya wildlife officials suspended over poaching crisis
Apr 11, 2014 (AFP)
Five officials working for Kenya's state-run wildlife service have been suspended as part of a probe into allegations of mismanagement and an upsurge in poachin...
Salamanders Help Predict Health of Ecosystems on US Golf Courses
Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)
Currently, there are more than 18,300 golf courses in the U.S. covering over 2.7 million acres. The ecological impacts of golf courses are not always straightfo...
Plants evolve ways to control embryo growth
Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)
A new generation of high yield plants could be created following a fundamental change in our understanding of how plants develop. The research, led by the Unive...
Skulls of red and giant pandas provide insight into coexistence
Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)
New research on the skulls of red pandas and giant pandas provides further explanation as to why the two species-which are not closely related but dine on the s...
Study shows 'dinosaurs of the turtle world' at risk in Southeast rivers
Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)
Conservation of coastal rivers of the northern Gulf of Mexico is vital to the survival of the alligator snapping turtle, including two recently discovered speci...
New study explains evolution of duplicate genes
Apr 10, 2014 (SPX)
From time to time, living cells will accidently make an extra copy of a gene during the normal replication process. Throughout the history of life, evolution ha...
Running geese give insight into low oxygen tolerance
Apr 10, 2014 (SPX)
A new study into how the world's highest flying bird, the bar-headed goose, is able to survive at extreme altitudes may have future implications for low oxygen ...
Sea Otters Can Get the Flu, Too
Apr 10, 2014 (SPX)
Northern sea otters living off the coast of Washington state were infected with the same H1N1 flu virus that caused the world-wide pandemic in 2009, according t...
A new tiny species of crayfish from the swamps of coastal eastern Australia
Apr 10, 2014 (SPX)
Hidden in one of Australia's most developed and fastest growing areas lives one of the world's smallest freshwater crayfish species. Robert B McCormack the Team...
Mozambique considers law to fight big game poaching
Apr 09, 2014 (AFP)
Mozambique is considering a new law to fight poaching, as the number of rhinos killed so far this year in neighbouring South Africa reached 277, a minister said...
Saving plants from cyanide with carbon dioxide
Apr 08, 2014 (SPX)
The scientific world is one step closer to understanding how nature uses carbon-capture to tame poisons, thanks to a recent discovery of cyanoformate by researc...
Hummingbird evolution soared after they invaded South America 22 million years ago
Apr 08, 2014 (SPX)
A newly constructed family tree of the hummingbirds, published in the journal Current Biology, tells a story of a unique group of birds that originated in Europ...
Bacteria Get New Badge as Planet's Detoxifier
Apr 08, 2014 (SPX)
A study published this week in PLOS ONE authored by Dr. Henry Sun and his postdoctoral student Dr. Gaosen Zhang of Nevada based research institute DRI provides ...
Bats find shelter at Nazi German defence line in Poland
Apr 07, 2014 (AFP)
An awe-inspiring Nazi defence line in western Poland has taken on a new role in peacetime as home to tens of thousands of bats in what is Europe's largest artif...
Hummingbirds' 22-million-year-old history of remarkable change is far from complete
Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)
The first comprehensive map of hummingbirds' 22-million-year-old family tree-reconstructed based on careful analysis of 284 of the world's 338 known species-tel...
Death, tumors harm efforts to save rare rhinos
Apr 04, 2014 (AFP)
Efforts to save critically endangered Sumatran rhinoceroses were dealt a double blow this week with the death of one animal at a US zoo and the discovery of rep...
New yeast species travelled the globe with a little help from the beetles
Apr 03, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from the National Collection of Yeast Cultures (NCYC) at the Institute of Food Research (IFR) have identified a new globe-trotting yeast species tha...
Singapore seizes ivory disguised as coffee berries
Apr 03, 2014 (AFP)
Singapore authorities said Thursday they had intercepted about one tonne of ivory worth $1.6 million in a shipping container from Africa marked as carrying coff...
New functions for 'junk' DNA?
Apr 03, 2014 (SPX)
DNA is the molecule that encodes the genetic instructions enabling a cell to produce the thousands of proteins it typically needs. The linear sequence of the A,...
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