http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. South Africa and Vietnam have agreed to exchange the names of registered hunters in a bid to stop rhino poachers who obtain hunting permits under false pretences, a spokesman said Monday. http://phys.org/news287072021.html Biology Mon, 06 May 2013 15:40:03 EST news287072021 (AP)—A U.S. firm recently gave smart phones to some game rangers in South Africa to help them track poachers who kill rhinos for their horns. An anti-poaching ad campaign in Vietnam, a key illegal market, shows rhinos with human hands or feet in place of horns, which are made from the same material as fingernails and toenails. http://phys.org/news286009622.html Biology Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:07:09 EST news286009622 (Phys.org) —University of Queensland researchers have found that sexiness doesn't have to be a burden, at least not if you're a male threadfin rainbowfish. http://phys.org/news285490022.html Biology Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:47:12 EST news285490022 Poachers have killed 158 rhinos in South Africa's national parks since the beginning of the year, a rate of more than two a day, environment officials said on Friday. http://phys.org/news282569733.html Biology Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:35:38 EST news282569733 Poachers have killed 57 rhinos from South Africa's national parks since the beginning of the month, a rate of almost two a day, officials said Thursday. http://phys.org/news278841765.html Biology Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:02:52 EST news278841765 Poachers have slaughtered 32 South African rhinos in the first three weeks of 2013, marking a disturbing start to the year for a country battling crisis level killings of the beast, government said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news278176268.html Biology Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:11:14 EST news278176268 The rhino has been named South Africa's newsmaker for 2012, based on the extensive media coverage around the slaughter of the creature for its horn, the National Press Club said on Saturday. http://phys.org/news277823127.html Biology Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:05:50 EST news277823127 A Vietnamese man was arrested with rhino horn worth more than half a million dollars in his luggage at Bangkok's main airport, Thai officials said. http://phys.org/news276755130.html Biology Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:25:36 EST news276755130 The rare killing of a black rhino for its horns in Namibia has prompted fears that a poaching epidemic in neighbouring South Africa could spill across the border. http://phys.org/news275838242.html Biology Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:44:11 EST news275838242 At least 633 rhinos have been killed in South Africa this year, a record toll as demand for their horns continues to surge on the black market in Asia, the government said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news275141353.html Biology Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:20:01 EST news275141353 (Medical Xpress)—Soft horns and a tinkling piano form the backbone of "Fifty Degrees North, Four Degrees West," a jazz number with two interesting twists: it has no composer and no actual musicians. Unless you count bacteria and other tiny microbes, that is.    http://phys.org/news268046784.html Other Sciences Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:26:45 EST news268046784 Global wildlife monitoring network TRAFFIC warned Tuesday that 515 rhinos could perish by the end of the year if no action is taken to stem the illicit trade in rhino horns. http://phys.org/news264737366.html Biology Tue, 21 Aug 2012 03:20:01 EST news264737366 In the animal kingdom, huge weapons such as elk antlers or ornaments like peacock feathers are sexy. Their extreme size attracts potential mates and warns away lesser rivals. http://phys.org/news262520153.html Biology Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:00:20 EST news262520153 Poachers in South Africa have killed 281 rhinos so far this year, with the world-famous Kruger National Park accounting for over half the killings, authorities said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news261725891.html Biology Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:38:19 EST news261725891 Claus Mortensen is a private Kenyan rancher with a passion -- endangered rhinos -- and now a mission: to save his herd from slaughter by ruthless poachers who sell their horns to Asia, where they are prized as a miracle drug. http://phys.org/news255929976.html Biology Fri, 11 May 2012 04:40:01 EST news255929976 US officials announced Thursday the arrest of seven people in a crackdown on the illegal global trade in endangered black rhinoceros horns. http://phys.org/news249280851.html Biology Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:41:26 EST news249280851 Mapping the ancestry of sheep over the past 11,000 years has revealed that our woolly friends are stars among domestic animals, boasting vast genetic diversity and substantial prospects for continued breeding to further boost wool and food production for a rising world population. http://phys.org/news247858009.html Biology Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:26:57 EST news247858009 Authorities have killed two suspected poachers, arrested two others and found 11 rhino carcasses in the same area of South Africa's Kruger National Park in one week, a spokesman said Thursday. http://phys.org/news245601357.html Biology Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:36:08 EST news245601357 A French zoo has placed its white rhinos under video surveillance fearing poachers could kill them for their horns which can fetch hundreds of thousands of euros on the black market. http://phys.org/news239980887.html Biology Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:21:33 EST news239980887 South African rangers on Thursday announced a plan to implant GPS devices in the horns of rhinos in a new effort to combat rampant poaching. http://phys.org/news206891134.html Biology Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:20:02 EST news206891134 (PhysOrg.com) -- Dung beetles are among the few species in which the females are more impressively equipped with armor than males, and a new study explains why: the females fight each other for the best manure and breeding sites. http://phys.org/news186904227.html Biology Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:00:01 EST news186904227 They are Angola's national symbol and the nickname for the country's football team -- yet fewer than 100 are believed still alive. http://phys.org/news172846470.html Biology Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:20:02 EST news172846470 (PhysOrg.com) -- The reason some female hoofed animals have horns while others do not has long puzzled evolutionary biologists, even the great Charles Darwin. But now a survey of 117 bovid species led by Ted Stankowich, professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, suggests an answer: Females that can’t readily hide in protective cover and those who must defend a feeding territory are more likely to have horns than those who live in protective habitat or don’t defend a territory. http://phys.org/news172428997.html Biology Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:50:01 EST news172428997 How did the dinosaur Triceratops use its three horns? A new study published in the open-access, peer reviewed journal PLoS ONE and led by Andrew Farke, curator at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, located on the campus of The Webb Schools, shows that the headgear was not just for looks. Battle scars on the skulls of Triceratops preserve rare evidence of Cretaceous-era combat. http://phys.org/news152370590.html Other Sciences Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:10:23 EST news152370590