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Giant spiders to be released in Britain
Oct 04, 2012 (UPI)
British scientists say they've raised thousands of the country's largest spiders in preparation for reintroduction to their former stronghold in the southeast. ...
Predatory bacterial crowdsourcing
Oct 04, 2012 (SPX)
Move forward. High-five your neighbor. Turn around. Repeat. That's the winning formula of one of the world's smallest predators, the soil bacteria Myxococcus xa...
Morocco mission to rescue last of the Atlas lions
Oct 03, 2012 (AFP)
Almost a century after a French colonial hunter put a bullet in what came to be viewed as the last Atlas lion living in the wild, a Moroccan zoo is struggling t...
Costa Rica set to ban hunting, a first in the Americas
Oct 03, 2012 (AFP)
Costa Rica is set to be the first country in the American continent to ban recreational hunting after the country's legislature approved the popular measure by ...
Marine plants can flee to avoid predators
Oct 03, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography have made the first observation of a predator avoidance behavior by a species of ...
Reclassifying protists helps us understand how many species remain undiscovered
Oct 02, 2012 (SPX)
Since the Victorian era, categorizing the natural world has challenged scientists. No group has presented a challenge as tricky as the protists, the tiny, compl...
Norway, Switzerland in push to protect 'environmental refugees'
Oct 02, 2012 (AFP)
People forced to flee their countries by natural disasters find themselves in a legal vacuum where they are considered neither refugees nor migrants, Norway and...
Stanford bioengineers introduce 'Bi-Fi' - The biological internet
Oct 02, 2012 (SPX)
If you were a bacterium, the virus M13 might seem innocuous enough. It insinuates more than it invades, setting up shop like a freeloading houseguest, not a kil...
Uranium-contaminated site yields wealth of information on microbes 10 feet under
Oct 02, 2012 (SPX)
University of California, Berkeley, scientists have sequenced nearly all the genes in an underground community of microbes at a contaminated uranium mill site i...
Unusual Symbiosis Discovered in Marine Microorganisms
Oct 01, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered an unusual symbiosis between tiny single-celled algae and highly specialized bacteria in the ocean. The partnership plays an importan...
Slave rebellion is widespread in ants
Oct 01, 2012 (SPX)
Ants that are held as slaves in nests of other ant species damage their oppressors through acts of sabotage. Ant researcher Professor Dr. Susanne Foitzik of Joh...
Two rare Indian rhinos die after poaching attack
Sep 29, 2012 (AFP)
Two rare rhinos brutally attacked by poachers this week in northeast India have died, veterinarians said Saturday, triggering protests at local authorities' fai...
Philippines expands probe into 'blood' ivory
Sep 28, 2012 (AFP)
Philippine authorities said Friday they had launched a nationwide investigation into Catholic devotees collecting religious figures made of "blood" ivory smuggl...
Hopes dim for Indian rhino mutilated by poachers
Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)
Vets in northeast India battled on Thursday to save a rare rhino whose horn was hacked off by poachers who are stepping up attacks on animals fleeing rising flo...
Biology and Management of the Green Stink Bug
Sep 27, 2012 (SPX)
The green stink bug is one of the most damaging native stink bug species in the United States. Stink bugs feeding on cotton, soybeans, tomatoes, peaches, and ot...
Poachers target rhinos in flood-hit NE India
Sep 26, 2012 (AFP)
Suspected poachers Wednesday killed a one-horned rhino in a flood-hit wildlife park, taking to 14 the number of the beasts slaughtered this year in the remote I...
DR Congo conflict puts endangered mountain gorillas in peril
Sep 24, 2012 (AFP)
Home to the famed mountain gorillas, Africa's oldest national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been overrun by armed groups who have slaughtered wil...
How bumblebees find efficient routes without a GPS
Sep 24, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have tracked bumblebees for the first time to see how they select the optimal route to collect nectar from mult...
Major changes needed to protect species and ecosystems
Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)
A landmark study has found that climate change is likely to have a major impact on Australia's plants, animals and ecosystems that will present significant chal...
Rapid urban expansion threatens biodiversity
Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)
A brief window of opportunity exists to shape the development of cities globally before a boom in infrastructure construction transforms urban land cover, accor...
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