Research undertaken by the Cardiff University Otter Project has revealed a number of disease-causing parasites in the bodies of dead otters. The findings were revealed at the BBC Summer of Wildlife event ...

Biology - Ecology

Jun 18, 2013 not rated yet 0

A new species of meat-eating plant was identified in Japan last month – but it is only one of more than 600 species of carnivorous plant around the world. ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 06, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 0

Some 40 million years before rock and roll singer Jim Morrison's lyrics earned him the moniker "the Lizard King," an actual king lizard roamed the hot tropical forests of Southeast Asia, competing with mammals ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 04, 2013 4.3 / 5 (6) 1 |

The frenzy to build hydropower stations across the Carpathian mountains poses an "imminent" threat to biodiversity in Eastern Europe, conservationist group WWF warned Monday.

Biology - Ecology

May 20, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 2

(Phys.org) —Research into the incubation behaviour of birds suggests the type of parental care carried out by their long extinct ancestors.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

May 15, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 2 |

An assortment of saber-toothed cats, hyenas, an extinct 'bear-dog', ancestors of the red panda and several other carnivores died under unusual circumstances in a Spanish cave near Madrid approximately 9-10 ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

May 01, 2013 4.7 / 5 (14) 3 |

Most of us want to swim in a lake where we can see our toes. Clear, oxygen-rich water supports not only human swimmers, but also intricate webs of animal and microbial life. That life can be disrupted when ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 23, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1 |

The first new dinosaur named from Madagascar in nearly a decade, Dahalokely tokana was a carnivore measuring 9-14 feet long. Its fossils were found in 90-million-year-old rocks of northernmost Madagascar, ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Apr 18, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

(Phys.org) —Undeniably charismatic, the Northern Quoll's big black eyes and impossibly long whiskers belie the face of a feisty, nocturnal predator that has – as conservation biologist Dr Jonathan Webb ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 21, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 2

In the southern Rift Valley of Kenya, the Maasai people, their livestock and a range of carnivores, including striped hyenas, spotted hyenas, lions and bat-eared foxes, are coexisting fairly happily according ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 13, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 1

A new camera-trapping study in India has revealed that leopards can occur at high densities in densely-populated and heavily-modified agricultural environments.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 08, 2013 not rated yet 0

Previous studies have shown that carnivores can have indirect positive effects on each other, which means that when one species is lost, others could soon follow. A team from the University of Exeter and the University of ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 28, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 0 |

Lizards and frogs are about to take up residence in the laboratories of Virginia Tech's College of Engineering.

Technology - Engineering

Feb 19, 2013 4.7 / 5 (3) 1 |

Can you teach a wolf not to eat sheep? The idea is being floated in France, where the return of the wolf has got farmers and environmentalists at each other's throats.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 07, 2013 not rated yet 0

A first ever study of the range and habits of white-backed vultures across southern Africa shows that they often shun national parks, preferring to forage further afield on private farmland.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 30, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0