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Scientists develop new method of estimating fish movements underwater
Sep 10, 2013 (SPX)
How do you track a fish? There's no "Google Maps" for finding fish. The radio signals that are the backbone of traditional GPS cannot pass through seawater. But...
Logging, herbicides harm Monarch butterfly: study
Sep 10, 2013 (AFP)
The Monarch butterfly population is shrinking due to illegal logging in Mexican forests and herbicides used in Canada and the United States along its migration ...
Biodiversity in Ontario's Great Lakes region may be greater than we thought
Sep 10, 2013 (SPX)
Branched Bartonia (Bartonia paniculata), a threatened species, is a spindly annual plant that grows to 40 cm tall and has tiny white flowers. Researchers at Tre...
A fly's hearing
Sep 10, 2013 (SPX)
If your attendance at too many rock concerts has impaired your hearing, listen up. University of Iowa researchers say that the common fruit fly, Drosophila mela...
How quickly can a bacterium grow?
Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)
All living things must obey the laws of physics - including the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the universe's disorder, or entropy, can only gr...
Giant Triassic amphibian was a burrowing youngster
Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)
Krasiejow, Poland was a vastly different place 230 million years ago during the Triassic Period. It was part of a giant continent called Pangea, had a warm clim...
AC or DC 2 newly described electric fish from the Amazon are wired differently
Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)
Much as human siblings can have vastly different personalities despite their similar resemblance and genetics, two closely related species of electric fish from...
Wolves howl because they care
Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)
When a member of the wolf pack leaves the group, the howling by those left behind isn't a reflection of stress but of the quality of their relationships. So say...
Washington's new panda cub is a girl, zoo says
Sep 05, 2013 (AFP)
The giant panda cub born 13 days ago at the National Zoo in Washington is female and she has a live-in dad, the zoo said Thursday. "We have another girl in our ...
S.Africa's rhino poaching toll passes 600 for the year
Sep 05, 2013 (AFP)
Poachers have killed more than 600 rhinos in South Africa so far this year, figures showed Thursday, with losses close to the total number of animals slaughtere...
Too cute to kill? US split on suburban deer
Aug 30, 2013 (AFP)
Seconds after Mike Braun spotted the deer in his headlights his six-day-old car had $8,000 worth of damage, including a punctured radiator. "It could have been ...
Whooping cranes learn migration from elders: study
Aug 29, 2013 (AFP)
Whooping cranes learn how to migrate by following elders in their midst, suggesting that social influence has a larger bearing than genetics on the birds' behav...
Thai village under siege from marauding monkeys
Aug 29, 2013 (AFP)
In one Thai village homes are raided, property is pinched and locals are attacked by dastardly gangs operating beyond the law -- but the perpetrators are monkey...
London, a playground for 10,000 urban foxes
Aug 27, 2013 (AFP)
To some they are a nuisance, even a danger. To others, London's 10,000 foxes are a delightful reminder that this concrete wilderness is teeming with wildlife. T...
Snakes alive: deadly tenants nesting in Australian suburbs
Aug 26, 2013 (AFP)
They are the nightmare tenants who can live undetected alongside Australian families for years: the world's deadliest snakes. Australia is home to some of the m...
Beetles modify emissions of greenhouse gases from cow pats
Aug 26, 2013 (SPX)
Cattle contribute to global warming by burping and farting large amounts of greenhouse gases. Some of the same gases are also emitted from cow pats on pastures....
Out of Africa? New bamboo genera, mountain gorillas, and the origins of China's bamboos
Aug 26, 2013 (SPX)
African mountain bamboos are something of a mystery, as nearly all bamboos are found in Asia or South America. Hidden away up mountains in the tropics where the...
Burmese long-tailed macaques' ability to use stone tools threatened by human activity in Thailand
Aug 23, 2013 (SPX)
Human farming and the introduction of domestic dogs are posing a threat to the ability of Burmese long-tailed macaques to use stone tools. This was found in a s...
Forest-interior Birds May be Benefiting from Harvested Clearings
Aug 23, 2013 (SPX)
Efforts to conserve declining populations of forest-interior birds have largely focused on preserving the mature forests where birds breed, but a U.S. Forest Se...
Switzerland and Italy growl over 'problem bears'
Aug 23, 2013 (AFP)
Swiss and Italian officials are butting heads over how to tackle bears roaming between the two countries, in a dispute centred on balancing human and animal wel...
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