Vets try to save Indian rhino attacked by poachers
Nunavut's mysterious ancient life could return by 2100
Global climate change means that recently discovered ancient forests in Canada's extreme north could one day return, according to Alexandre Guertin-Pasquier of the University of Montreal's Department of Geography, ...
Sep 21, 2012
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Evolutionary capacity of many fruit fly species will lag behind pace of climate change, researchers say
(Phys.org)—Many species of fruit fly lack the ability to adapt effectively to predicted increases in global temperatures and may face extinction in the near future, according to new research.
Sep 18, 2012
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Geologic records contain clues for future climate, says researcher
(Phys.org)—For most of the past decade, Dr. Wan Yang has spent his summers in the Bogda Mountains in northwest China, collecting rock samples that predate dinosaurs by millions of years in an effort to ...
Sep 18, 2012
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Skilled hunters 300,000 years ago
Finds from early stone age site in north-central Germany show that human ingenuity is nothing new – and was probably shared by now-extinct species of humans.
Sep 17, 2012
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Establishing optic nerve positions in extinct animals could provide behavioral insights
A student at the University of Kansas School of Engineering has taken the first steps that could unlock new details about how extinct animals lived and hunted on a daily basis.
Sep 12, 2012
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Mammoth fragments from Siberia raise cloning hopes (Update)
Scientists have discovered well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth fragments deep in Siberia that may contain living cells, edging a tad closer to the "Jurassic Park" possibility of cloning a prehistoric animal, ...
Sep 11, 2012
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100 most threatened species: Are they priceless or worthless?
Continuing management needed for most threatened and endangered species
Extinction fears shadow global conservation forum
Dinosaur die-out might have been second of two closely timed extinctions
The most-studied mass extinction in Earth history happened 65 million years ago and is widely thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs. New University of Washington research indicates that a separate extinction ...
Sep 05, 2012
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Primitive-plant uber-geek's heart belongs to lycopods
(Phys.org)—When Jeff Benca moved to Berkeley last month, he came so loaded with valuables he had to rent a truck. Make that a cargo van, air-conditioned to accommodate its contents—thousands of plant ...
Sep 05, 2012
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Researchers discover eight new Thai plant species
Researchers in the Trinity Botany Department's Herbarium, together with Thai collaborators, have just discovered eight species, three subspecies and four varieties of the plant genus Eriocaulon from Thailand, all new to Science.
Sep 05, 2012
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Invertebrates on the brink
Marine fossils show location as important as area for biodiversity
(Phys.org)—Science has charted a close relationship between the number of species in a given region and the area of the region. This relationship has been documented for many present-day environments, where it can be used ...
Aug 30, 2012
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