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Oldest chimp from renown Guinean group dies
Sep 28, 2022 (AFP)
Fana, a female chimp born around 1951, was part of a troop that gained global fame for uncanny abilities to use tools. The tiny community of apes lives in a for...
Taiwan's pangolins suffer surge in feral dog attacks
Sep 28, 2022 (AFP)
Veterinarian Tseng Shao-tung, 28, has seen firsthand what a dog can do to the gentle creatures during his shifts at a hospital in Hsinchu. Last month he worked ...
New MSU research: How nature handles Earth's nitrogen
Sep 21, 2022 (SPX)
Nitrogen compounds have important roles in biology, including lowering blood pressure, helping relay signals in our bodies and providing nourishment for plants....
How many ants are on Earth? 20 quadrillion, study says
Sep 19, 2022 (AFP)
Determining the global population of ants is important for measuring the consequences of changes to their habitat -- including those caused by climate change. A...
India welcomes back cheetahs, 70 years after local extinction
Sep 17, 2022 (AFP)
Officials say the project is the world's first intercontinental relocation of cheetahs, the planet's fastest land animal. The five females and three males were ...
Could more of Earth's surface host life?
Sep 12, 2022 (SPX)
When a planet has a perfectly circular orbit around its star, the distance between the star and the planet never changes. Most planets, however, have "eccentric...
Why plants worldwide became woody
Sep 12, 2022 (SPX)
"The first woody trees evolved on Earth some 400 million years ago, but still we know so little about why they developed wood in the first place", Frederic Lens...
The green king: Charles the environmentalist
Sep 11, 2022 (AFP)
Interspersed between photos of official meetings and other royal duties, his Instagram account as Prince of Wales typically featured pictures showing him furthe...
S.Africa's Kruger Park sees drop in rhino numbers
Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)
The Democratic Alliance (DA) said it was "deeply concerned" at the decline seen in figures provided by park officials during a parliamentary committee on Tuesda...
The evolution of mucus: How did we get all this slime?
Sep 06, 2022 (SPX)
In mammals, the answer is many times, and often in a surprising way, according to a new study on proteins called mucins. These molecules have a variety of funct...
How light and temperature work together to affect plant growth
Sep 01, 2022 (SPX)
The findings, published in Nature Communications on August 29, 2022, will help scientists predict how plants will respond to climate change-and increase crop pr...
Giant 200-year-old cactus toppled by heavy rain in US
Aug 30, 2022 (AFP)
"Powerful seasonal rains can quickly make an impact on the desert landscape. The loss of this huge, iconic ~200 year old Saguaro on the Romero Ruins trail overl...
Ecuador investigates killing of four Galapagos giant tortoises
Aug 30, 2022 (AFP)
The prosecutor's office said on Twitter it was investigating the "suspected hunting and killing of four giant tortoises in the Galapagos National Park wetland c...
Living LEGOs
Aug 25, 2022 (SPX)
An interdisciplinary research team, led by MIT professor Jorn Dunkel and Ingmar Riedel-Kruse of the University of Arizona, has developed an experiment-theory pl...
Hunting pythons in Florida, for profit and therapy
Aug 24, 2022 (AFP)
When not working at his job staging cultural events in Miami, the 34-year-old spends his time tracking down the nocturnal reptiles from Southeast Asia. He does ...
Cyprus row over threat to dig up protected turtle nests
Aug 18, 2022 (AFP)
On Thursday the authorities said his "inexcusable" threat would undo decades of conservation efforts if it went ahead. Yiangos Tsivikos, leader of the Ineia com...
Climate change causes wonky bumblebee wings: scientists
Aug 18, 2022 (AFP)
"With hotter and wetter conditions predicted to place bumblebees under higher stress, the fact these conditions will become more frequent under climate change m...
Earning its stripes: tech bid to crack tiger trade
Aug 17, 2022 (AFP)
There are thousands of photographs, including of rugs, carcasses and taxidermy specimens. Banks, the crime campaign leader for the Environmental Investigation A...
Indian smuggler arrested at Thai airport with fox, pythons
Aug 17, 2022 (AFP)
The Southeast Asian kingdom is a major transit hub for wildlife smugglers -- who often sell the animals on to China and Vietnam -- although recent months have s...
MIT scientists discover new antiviral defense system in bacteria
Aug 15, 2022 (SPX)
A team led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT has discovered and characterized one of...
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