Ecology & Zoology
- CITES: USA Backs Protecting Sharks And Rays
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CITES today overruled objections from countries like Japan, China and India and listed five species of highly traded sharks under the CITES Appendices, along with both manta rays and one species of sawfish. Japan, India and Gambia challenged the Committe ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2013 - 12:00pm
- Marsupials: Climb To The Pouch Begins In Utero
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Marsupials represent approximately 6% of all mammal species and include iconic pouched mammals like the kangaroo, wombat and koala. Compared to eutherian mammals like the dog, cow and human, marsupials have ultra-short pregnancies and give birth to very i ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2013 - 12:14pm
- No, Cows Don't Make Fertilizer
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Article - Steve Savage - Sep 29 2017 - 9:31am
- Architeuthis Dux: Release The Kraken- Onto Video
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The giant squid is extremely rarely seen but remains are found in the formalin or ethanol collections of various museums. An international team has learned that no matter where in the world they are found, giant squid are so closely related at the geneti ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2013 - 3:27pm
- Cloning Wooly Mammoths?
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OK, here's the premise. The Audubon Nature Institute has something they call a "frozen zoo" (1) which contains genetic material from endangered species. In this way recently extinct animals may be "recovered" and endangered anima ...
Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Aug 1 2013 - 6:23pm
- Cthulhu Lives!
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Two new symbionts living in the gut of termites have been discovered. These single-cell protists, Cthulhu macrofasciculumque and Cthylla microfasciculumque, help termites digest wood. And now they have a name inspired by science fiction. ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2013 - 10:16am
- Niumbaha Superba: New Genus Of Bat Identified In South Sudan
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Researchers visiting South Sudan identified a new genus of bat after discovering a rare specimen and determining the bat was the same as one originally captured in nearby Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1939 and named Glauconycteris superba but that i ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2013 - 11:15am
- Why Were Female Giant Moa's So Much Bigger Than Males?
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Male and female birds often show differences in body size, with males typically being larger. Some birds, like many ratites – large, flightless species such as emus and cassowaries – are the opposite, with the females towering over the males. But some ex ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2013 - 5:30pm
- The Early Warning Signs Of Population Collapse
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Many factors can push a wild animal population to the brink of collapse and ecologists have long sought ways to measure the risk of such a collapse. Last year, MIT physicists demonstrated that they could numerically predict a population's risk of col ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2013 - 5:00pm
- Fairyflies Get A New Species- Tinkerbella Nana
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Mymaridae, commonly known as fairyflies, are one of about 18 families of chalcid wasps. Fairyflies are everywhere except Antarctica and include the world's smallest known insect- Kikiki huna, the body length of which is only 0.13 millimeters. Fairyfl ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 26 2013 - 11:25am
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