Sumatran orangutans have undergone a substantial recent population decline, according to a new genetic study, but the same research revealed the existence of critical corridors for dispersal migrations that, ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

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(AP)—Delegates from nearly 200 countries are working to implement an agreement for protecting Earth's ecosystems at a biodiversity conference in southern India.

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 16, 2012 not rated yet 0

A captive-bred Chinese panda has been released into the wild as part of efforts to help the struggling species, but this time with special survival training after one of the animals died in a previous attempt.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 12, 2012 not rated yet 0

Will future conservation policies have to take account of the genetic diversity within each species ? A large-scale study into plants found at high altitude throughout the Alps and the Carpathians, has enabled ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 08, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

An international team of researchers led by the University of Grenoble and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) has demonstrated for the first time that a high level of ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 25, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Watch out, acne. Doctors soon may have a new weapon against zits: a harmless virus living on our skin that naturally seeks out and kills the bacteria that cause pimples.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Sep 25, 2012 5 / 5 (5) 1 |

(Phys.org)—For nearly 260 years—since Carl Linnaeus developed his system of naming plants and animals—researchers classified species based on visual attributes like color, shape and size. In the past ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

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(Phys.org)—Research indicates the out-of-Africa spread of humans was dictated by the appearance of favourable climatic windows.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Sep 17, 2012 4.5 / 5 (8) 7 |

The Little Ice Age allowed a new wave of arctic foxes to colonise Iceland, according to new research.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 11, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

The biota of island archipelagos is of considerable interest to biologists. These isolated areas often act as 'evolutionary laboratories', spawning biological diversity rapidly and permitting many mechanisms ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

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The world's first artificial insemination of crocodiles is one step closer thanks to a novel project between The University of Queensland (UQ) and a central Queensland farmer.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 28, 2012 not rated yet 0

Could the word for mother prove that Turkey was the birthplace of hundreds of languages as diverse as Hindi, Russian, Dutch, Albanian, Italian and English?

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Aug 23, 2012 3.9 / 5 (16) 9

(Phys.org)—Researchers at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), an organized research unit within the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, have made a remarkable ...

Biology - Ecology

Aug 23, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Investigators reporting in the Cell Press journal Trends in Genetics say that new analytical techniques are changing long-held, simplistic views about the evolutionary history of humans in Europe. Their findings indicate that m ...

Biology - Evolution

Aug 14, 2012 4.3 / 5 (4) 0

A study by the Genographic Project has shown that not all individuals carrying the Romanian "Basarab" surname, the first dynasty of Wallachian kings that included the real-life Dracula, can be direct biological descendants ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jul 26, 2012 3.3 / 5 (3) 0