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Ancient bone discovery suggests aquatic origins for echidnas
May 01, 2025 (SPX)
Long held theories proposed that monotremes shared a land-dwelling ancestor, with platypuses later adapting to aquatic life while echidnas remained terrestrial....
Seventeen years later, Brood XIV cicadas emerge in US; UK scientists fear insect loss as car bug splats fall
May 01, 2025 (AFP)
Global financial jitters were mounting, iPhones were a luxury item, and George W. Bush was still president. Now, reports from the citizen-science app Cicada Saf...
Landmark Nepal survey estimates nearly 400 elusive snow leopards
Apr 22, 2025 (AFP)
Habitat loss, climate change and poaching have greatly impacted snow leopard populations across Asia, listed as a "vulnerable" species by the International Unio...
Lion kills 14-year-old girl in Kenya
Apr 20, 2025 (AFP)
The incident occurred on Saturday in a ranch to the south of Nairobi National Park. The attack was witnessed by another teenager, who raised the alarm, the KWS ...
India's elephant warning system tackles deadly conflict
Apr 18, 2025 (AFP)
Boots crunch on brittle leaves as Bhuvan Yadav, proudly wearing a T-shirt with his team's title of "friends of the elephant", looks for indicators ranging from ...
Trump admin proposes redefining 'harm' to endangered animals
Apr 17, 2025 (AFP)
The US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the definition of "harm" in the Endangered Species Act should excl...
Do neurons guide light within the brain
Apr 15, 2025 (SPX)
With a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, researchers from Rochester's Institute of Optics have launched a study to test the hyp...
US firm says it brought back extinct dire wolves
Apr 11, 2025 (AFP)
A Texas startup called Colossal Biosciences made a big splash this week by releasing footage of canines they say are dire wolves, a species that vanished more t...
Census shows high number of brown bears in Romania
Apr 10, 2025 (AFP)
The announcement raised scepticism among activists, who slam the government for increasingly allowing bear hunting in the country, home to Europe's largest brow...
Slippery business: France jails men over eel smuggling
Apr 10, 2025 (AFP)
The translucent larvae of the European eel, fished in Atlantic waters and often sent out to Asian markets, is an endangered species and its trade is prohibited....
Anthrax kills 50 hippos in Africa's oldest nature reserve
Apr 08, 2025 (AFP)
It is caused by a spore-forming bacterium, Bacillus anthracis, which survives for decades in soil where animals that died of anthrax or were carriers were burie...
The race to save the Amazon's bushy-bearded monkeys
Apr 04, 2025 (AFP)
Never before had he seen one of the striking creatures emerge from the forest. The monkey, a Groves' Titi, listed as "critically endangered" by the Internationa...
Chinese doctors implant pig liver in human for first time
Mar 26, 2025 (AFP)
Pigs have emerged as the best animal organ donors, with several living patients in the United States having received pig kidneys or hearts in the last few years...
NASA Takes to the Air to Study Wildflowers
Mar 25, 2025 (JPL)
NASA research is revealing there's more to flowers than meets the human eye. A recent analysis of wildflowers in California shows how aircraft- and space-based ...
Indigenous leaders end world voyage with prayer for nature
Mar 24, 2025 (AFP)
The "Indigenous sages" carried out an ancestral ceremony of the Anasazi people, who lived in the Chaco Canyon before European settlement in what was to become t...
The watchers who prey on Israel's falcon poachers
Mar 21, 2025 (AFP)
The raptors may top the food chain in the wild, but here the predators can themselves become the prey. Many protected species of migratory birds spend their win...
Unlikely wolf pair sparks row in rural France
Mar 21, 2025 (AFP)
Environmental association Carduelis reported earlier this month it had spotted the pair of wolves, one a male German-Polish wolf -- a species found mostly in we...
Suspended jail term sought for French hunter who killed bear
Mar 19, 2025 (AFP)
The brown bear is a protected species in the mountain range, which separates France and Spain. Andre Rives was boar-hunting when a female bear nicknamed Caramel...
'We will preserve them': saving Cambodia's crocodiles
Mar 18, 2025 (AFP)
The reptile is one of 10 being released into the park in Cambodia's northeast for the first time -- part of a years-long effort that has brought the Siamese cro...
Monarch butterfly public comment reopened to determine Endangered Species Act listing
Mar 18, 2025 (UPI)
The Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday it would reopen public comment for 60 days to determine whether the orange and black butterfly is threatened or ...
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