The federal government moved Tuesday to further protect chimpanzees, proposing to change the animals' endangered status and increase oversight of their use in research.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 14, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —When a scout honeybee returns to the hive, she performs a "waggle dance," looping and shaking her rear end in particular patterns to direct her comrades toward the jackpot of nectar and pollen ...

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Jun 10, 2013 3 / 5 (1) 0 |

A pioneering long-term University of Adelaide experiment to see how best to restore overgrazed land back to native woodland gets underway at Monarto Zoo today.

Biology - Ecology

Jun 13, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Sydney marine researchers are one step further in solving the mystery of how tropical fishes, in response to rising sea temperatures and the impact of climate change, are shifting, and potentially ...

Biology - Ecology

Jun 12, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

A new paper by SFI External Professor Van Savage and collaborators at UCLA provides new details about how rising temperatures will alter the ways species interact – changes that biologists fear could destabilize ...

Biology - Ecology

Jun 12, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

Spanish and US scientists have successfully identified animal species that can transmit more diseases to humans by using mathematical tools similar to those applied to the study of social networks like Facebook ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 11, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) —Worldwide, around 20,000 endangered animal species are competing for scarce conservation funds – but just 80 'celebrity species' are hogging most of the attention.

Biology - Ecology

Jun 11, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

(Phys.org) —Go to about any public square, and you see pigeons pecking at the ground, always in search of crumbs dropped by a passerby. While the pigeons' scavenging may seem random, new research by psychologists ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 29, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(Phys.org) —At some point, scientists may be able to bring back extinct animals, and perhaps early humans, raising questions of ethics and environmental disruption.

Biology - Other

Apr 08, 2013 4.1 / 5 (11) 25 |

Many scientists have thought that dinosaur predecessors missed the race to fill habitats emptied when nine out of 10 species disappeared during the Earth's largest mass extinction, approximately 252 million ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Apr 29, 2013 4.7 / 5 (6) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Hybrids of many plant and animal species and subspecies are sterile, and a group of researchers in China have now identified the genes that operate to make crossbred rice sterile.

Biology - Biotechnology

Sep 14, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1 |

University of Utah researchers decoded the genetic blueprint of the rock pigeon, unlocking secrets about pigeons' Middle East origins, feral pigeons' kinship with escaped racing birds, and how mutations give ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jan 31, 2013 4.3 / 5 (3) 1 |

Starting with normal skin cells, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have produced the first stem cells from endangered species. Such cells could eventually make it possible to improve reproduction ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Sep 04, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 4 |

An international team of researchers have made an extremely rare discovery of a species of animal - related to crabs, lobsters and shrimps – that is new to science.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 11, 2012 4.8 / 5 (12) 7 |

Four new species of freshwater crab, bright purple in colour, have been discovered in the biologically diverse but ecologically-threatened Philippines, the man who found them said Saturday.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 22, 2012 4.6 / 5 (20) 9