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Context crucial when it comes to mutations in genetic evolution
Jun 19, 2013 (SPX)
The ocean the Titanic sailed through just over 100 years ago was very different from the one we swim in today. Global warming is increasing ocean temperatures a...
Elephant tramples girl to death in Nepal
Jun 18, 2013 (AFP)
An elephant trampled a 12-year-old girl to death after dragging her away from her home in a remote region of southeastern Nepal, police said Tuesday. Three memb...
Hong Kong dolphin numbers dwindling quickly
Jun 18, 2013 (AFP)
Conservationists Tuesday warned that the number of rare Chinese white dolphins in Hong Kong waters has fallen to its lowest level in a decade of monitoring, and...
WWF urges Romania, Bulgaria to protect wild sturgeon
Jun 18, 2013 (AFP)
Conservationist group WWF on Tuesday urged Romania and Bulgaria, home to the last viable wild sturgeon populations in the European Union, to protect the species...
Deep biosphere harbors active, growing communities of microorganisms
Jun 17, 2013 (SPX)
The deep biosphere-the realm of sediments far below the seafloor-harbors a vast ecosystem of bacteria, archaea, and fungi that are actively metabolizing, prolif...
Effort to revive Galapagos tortoises once thought extinct
Jun 17, 2013 (AFP)
Scientists will try to revive two species of giant Galapagos tortoises thought to have been extinct by breeding genetic relatives in captivity, experts leading ...
Scientists identify thousands of plant genes activated by ethylene gas
Jun 17, 2013 (SPX)
It's common wisdom that one rotten apple in a barrel spoils all the other apples, and that an apple ripens a green banana if they are put together in a paper ba...
Satao, Kenya's beloved elephant, slaughtered by ivory poachers
Jun 16, 2013 (UPI)
A giant elephant known throughout Kenya as Satao was recently found dead, killed by poachers for the male's enormous tusks. Regarded as the largest elephant in ...
Do parasites upset food web theory
Jun 14, 2013 (SPX)
Parasites comprise a large proportion of the diversity of species in every ecosystem. Despite this, they are rarely included in analyses or models of food webs....
Przewalski's horses roaming China's plains again
Jun 14, 2013 (AFP)
In the harsh desert steppe of far northwestern China five prehistoric-looking Przewalski's horses, once classed as extinct in the wild, emerge from the endless ...
Chalking up a marine blooming alga: Genome fills a gap in the tree of life
Jun 14, 2013 (SPX)
To World War II soldiers, "The White Cliffs of Dover" was a morale-boosting song that lifted spirits in dark times. To geographers, the white cliffs mark the po...
New study proposes solution to long-running debate as to how stable the Earth system is
Jun 13, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Southampton have proposed an answer to the long-running debate as to how stable the Earth system is. The Earth, with its core-d...
Magpies take decisions faster when humans look at them
Jun 13, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers from the Seoul National University found that wild birds appear to "think faster" when humans, and possibly predators in general, are directly looki...
Bridge species drive tropical engine of biodiversity
Jun 12, 2013 (SPX)
Although scientists have known since the middle of the 19th century that the tropics are teeming with species while the poles harbor relatively few, the origin ...
Scientists discover that turtles began living in shells much earlier than once thought
Jun 12, 2013 (SPX)
Unique among Earth's creatures, turtles are the only animals to form a shell on the outside of their bodies through a fusion of modified ribs, vertebrae and sho...
Chimpanzees have five universal personality dimensions
Jun 12, 2013 (SPX)
While psychologists have long debated the core personality dimensions that define humanity, primate researchers have been working to uncover the defining person...
DNA code sheds light on world-ranging algae
Jun 12, 2013 (AFP)
It's just a tiny thing -- a single-celled organism visible only under a microscope -- yet it is one of the most successful life forms on the planet. So say scie...
Large-scale biodiversity is vital to maintain ecosystem health
Jun 12, 2013 (SPX)
Over the years ecologists have shown how biological diversity benefits the health of small, natural communities. New analysis by ecologists at UC Santa Cruz dem...
An 'extinct' frog makes a comeback in Israel
Jun 12, 2013 (SPX)
The first amphibian to have been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been rediscovered in the north of ...
US mulls endangered status for captive chimpanzees
Jun 11, 2013 (AFP)
The US Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday announced it is considering giving captive chimpanzees the same endangered status that currently protects chimps liv...
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