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Folkloric and a national symbol: saving the Balkan Lynx
May 29, 2018 (AFP)
But today, sightings of the rare wildcat have become so unlikely that conservationists have raised a red flag about its future. Only about 40 individuals of the...
Galapagos iguanas transferred due to overpopulation
May 29, 2018 (AFP)
The reptiles were moved from the islet of Venice to Dragon Hill, on the neighboring island of Santa Cruz. "The shortage of rain, little food and the high number...
Massive beach clean-up for Hong Kong sea turtles
May 27, 2018 (AFP)
There has been increasing concern over the amount of rubbish in Hong Kong waters which washes up on its numerous beaches. Authorities and environmentalists have...
Montana State laser technology could help Yellowstone battle invasive trout
May 25, 2018 (SPX)
During recent flights over Yellowstone Lake in a small aircraft, MSU's device was able to identify clusters of two or more lake trout to a depth of at least 26 ...
Australia builds world's longest cat-proof fence to save wildlife
May 25, 2018 (AFP)
Australia has the highest extinction rate in the world, while declining populations are affected by habitat loss as well as introduced creatures such as cats, f...
How coyotes conquered the continent
May 25, 2018 (SPX)
The geographic distribution of coyotes has dramatically expanded since 1900, spreading across much of North America in a period when most other mammal species h...
How the waterwheel plant snaps
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
The study was carried out in the Collaborative Research Centre "Biological Design and Integrative Structures: Analysis, Simulation and Implementation in Archite...
Bolivia's Madidi National Park is most biodiverse in the world
May 22, 2018 (UPI)
While documenting the park's thousands of plant and animal species, researchers identified 120 new candidate species of plants, butterflies and vertebrates. "We...
Explaining the history of Australia's vegetation
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
The new understanding will help researchers better predict the likely impact of climate change and rising CO2 levels on these critically important plants. Calle...
Giant invasive flatworms found in France, French territories
May 22, 2018 (UPI)
In a new paper, published this week in the journal PeerJ, scientists from the French National Museum of Natural History detailed five species of hammerhead flat...
Conservationists fight to save animals as mass extinction looms
May 22, 2018 (AFP)
From captive breeding to satellite tracking; restoring habitats to removing predators; shaming multinationals to nursing baby pandas and orangutans -- in all th...
Six pygmy elephants found dead on Malaysian Borneo
May 21, 2018 (AFP)
The carcasses of the elephants, aged between one and 37, were discovered at different locations in Sabah state on Borneo island, local wildlife department direc...
International consortium wants to sequence the DNA of 1.5 million species
May 21, 2018 (SPX)
Knowledge of this small fraction of Earth's biodiversity has facilitated enormous advances in agriculture, medicine and biotechnology-based industries, as well ...
Turtles, birds help scientists estimate structure of dinosaur's genome
May 21, 2018 (UPI)
By comparing the genomes of turtle and bird species, distant relatives of dinosaurs, researchers were able to approximate the genomic structures of the ancient ...
Giant Chinese salamander speeding toward extinction: study
May 21, 2018 (AFP)
"The overexploitation of these incredible animals for human consumption has had a catastrophic effect on their numbers in the wild over an amazingly short time ...
Brumby reprieve: Australia to ban wild horses cull at national park
May 20, 2018 (AFP)
An estimated 6,000 feral horses, known locally as "brumbies", live in Kosciuszko National Park, a UNESCO-recognised biosphere reserve some 470 kilometres (292 m...
Slovenia, a land with beekeeping in its genes
May 19, 2018 (AFP)
And Slovenia has gone on to lead the way in raising awareness of the plight of bees, as concern has grown over the health of the world's bee population in recen...
Pregnancy of southern white rhino at US zoo could save subspecies
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
The rhino called Victoria was inseminated in March at the San Diego Zoo and the embryo will continue developing for about 14 months, meaning that the calf would...
Sri Lanka elephants face plastic danger foraging dumps for food
May 17, 2018 (AFP)
Due to illegal dumping near wildlife sanctuaries, hundreds of Sri Lanka's estimated 7,500 wild elephants now scavenge at rubbish tips and many are being made si...
Intelligence is correlated with fewer neural connections, not more
May 17, 2018 (UPI)
Neuroscientists in Germany recruited 259 participants, both men and women, to take IQ tests and have their brains imaged. Testing provided a measure of each par...
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