FLORA FAUNA

5,060 articles

Social life helps orphaned elephants overcome loss: study
Jul 16, 2022 (AFP)
Scientists investigated the consequences of a mother elephant's death on her child by examining the level of stress hormones in the excrement of 37 young elepha...
Starfish embryos swim in formation like a living crystal
Jul 14, 2022 (SPX)
Now, MIT scientists have observed that when multiple starfish embryos spin up to the water's surface, they gravitate to each other and spontaneously assemble in...
Mattel unveils Jane Goodall Barbie, complete with chimp
Jul 12, 2022 (AFP)
The Goodall doll, which Mattel says will be partly made with recycled plastic, sports the researcher's classic beige collared shirt and shorts, as well as a pai...
Market values are destroying nature: UN report
Jul 11, 2022 (AFP)
Without this shift, universally accepted goals of sustainable development and greater equity will remain out-of-reach, the science advisory panel for biodiversi...
Indonesian uses puppets to teach threat to world's rarest rhinos
Jul 07, 2022 (AFP)
Former teacher Samsudin is educating the kids about the plight of the critically endangered Javan rhino -- the world's rarest -- using cardboard figures, comica...
Rhinos killed, poachers arrested in S.Africa's Kruger Park
Jul 06, 2022 (AFP)
Rangers flying over the park grounds spotted a carcass and an injured rhino on Friday morning after being alerted by a tourist who reported hearing gunshots, So...
Freeze-dried mice: how a new technique could help conservation
Jul 05, 2022 (AFP)
The United Nations has warned that extinctions are accelerating worldwide and at least a million species could disappear because of human-induced impacts like c...
Fossil discovery solves mystery of how pandas became vegetarian
Jul 03, 2022 (AFP)
Fossils dating back about six million years found in southwest China's Yunnan province included a greatly enlarged wrist bone called a radial sesamoid. It is th...
Researchers identify the microbes in 100-year-old snail guts
Jun 30, 2022 (SPX)
Now, a century later, a team of ecologists from the CU museum have returned to those snails, obtaining surprising insights into something that Henderson couldn'...
Horseshoe crabs: 'Living fossils' vital for vaccine safety
Jun 30, 2022 (AFP)
The group make their way up the shoreline laying a measuring frame on the sand, counting the individuals inside it to help generate a population estimate, and s...
Indonesian zoo breeds dozens of endangered baby Komodo dragons
Jun 28, 2022 (AFP)
The world's largest living lizards are found only in Indonesia's World Heritage-listed Komodo National Park and neighbouring Flores, and just 3,458 adult and ba...
Tiny limbs and long bodies: Coordinating lizard locomotion
Jun 28, 2022 (SPX)
Using biological experiments, robot models, and a geometric theory of locomotion from the 1980s, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology investigated...
Long road ahead to hammer out UN biodiversity blueprint
Jun 26, 2022 (AFP)
The meetings wrapping up Sunday were aimed at ironing out differences among the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD) 196 members, with barely six month...
Humans can't, but turtles can: Reduce weakening and deterioration with age
Jun 24, 2022 (SPX)
"Contrary to widespread theories of aging, we show that many species of turtles and tortoises have found a way to slow down or even completely switch off senesc...
Time running out for UN biodiversity draft, delegates told
Jun 24, 2022 (AFP)
Representatives from almost 200 countries in the UN's Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) have been meeting since Tuesday for a final session before the CO...
Giant bacteria found in Guadeloupe mangroves challenge traditional concepts
Jun 24, 2022 (SPX)
The unusual size is notable because bacteria aren't usually visible without the assistance of microscope. "It's 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it...
Greater threat, greater syntony
Jun 24, 2022 (SPX)
Who knew that, when under threat, they would follow cues given by other flies. Does a fly faced with danger behave like a "sheep. Does the group always affect a...
Biodiversity conference moved from China to Canada: UN
Jun 21, 2022 (AFP)
A group of around 195 nations are aiming to adopt a new global deal to arrest declining biodiversity and safeguard nature at the COP15 summit, which has been de...
Malawi to move 250 elephants from overpopulated park
Jun 21, 2022 (AFP)
The animals will be moved before the end of next month to the Kasungu National Park, where elephant numbers are still too low to sustain their population. "Poac...
Crunch talks kick off on global pact to protect nature
Jun 21, 2022 (AFP)
International efforts to protect the natural world -- including the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink -- have been severely slowed by the C...
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.