Weakened by inbreeding and disease, bumble bees have died off at an astonishing rate over the past 20 years, with some US populations diving more than 90 percent, according to a new study.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 03, 2011 4.4 / 5 (19) 16

The impact of hatcheries on salmon is so profound that in just one generation traits are selected that allow fish to survive and prosper in the hatchery environment, at the cost of their ability to thrive ...

Biology - Evolution

Dec 19, 2011 4.4 / 5 (14) 100 |

New research suggests that Charles Darwin's family was a living human example of a theory that he developed about plants: that inbreeding could negatively affect the health and number of resulting offspring.

Biology - Other

May 03, 2010 4.3 / 5 (11) 1

China's giant panda could be extinct in just two to three generations as rapid economic development is infringing on its way of life, state media said on Monday, citing an expert at conservation group WWF.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 17, 2009 4.5 / 5 (8) 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- A reliable method for producing plants that carry genetic material from only one of their parents has been discovered by plant biologists at UC Davis. The technique, to be published March 25 in the journal ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 24, 2010 4.5 / 5 (8) 1 |

Here's the good news: you are a male and you are allowed to have sex, at most, twice in your life. If that's the good news -- you may well ask -- what's the bad news? It's this: if you copulate for longer ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 20, 2010 4.3 / 5 (8) 1

In the quest to save the endangered Florida panther, their Texas cousins were the cat's meow. Wildlife biologists moved eight female panthers from Texas - close relatives yet genetically distinct - into south ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 23, 2010 5 / 5 (6) 2

Like the Easter Bunny, the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit of Washington state may soon exist only in our imaginations. None have been seen in the wild since 2004. But a new breeding program is aiming to rebuild ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 20, 2011 5 / 5 (6) 3 |

(Phys.org) —As is the case in all areas of science, our understanding of evolutionary biology is… well, evolving. Two such areas are macroevolution (any evolutionary change at or above the level of species ...

Biology - Evolution

Mar 18, 2013 3.8 / 5 (6) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mandrills can use body odour to identify potential mates, researchers have found, in a study which lends new support to the theory that humans also have the ability to "sniff out" suitable ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 04, 2010 4.2 / 5 (5) 0 |

A research team led by Teh-hui Kao, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State University, in collaboration with a team lead by Professor Seiji Takayama at the Nara Institute of Science ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Nov 04, 2010 4 / 5 (5) 1 |

The mating success of male butterflies is often lower if they are inbred. But how do female butterflies know which males to avoid? New research reveals that inbred male butterflies produce significantly less ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 05, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

Researchers have taken a first look at the broad genetic changes that accompany reproductive declines in inbred populations. Although scientists have known for more than a century that small populations of ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 12, 2009 4.8 / 5 (4) 0

The powerful Habsburg dynasty ruled Spain and its empire from 1516 to 1700 but when King Charles II died in 1700 without any children from his two marriages, the male line died out and the French Bourbon dynasty came to power ...

Biology - Other

Apr 15, 2009 4.8 / 5 (4) 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- We are all aware that the giant panda is an endangered species. Dutch researchers at the University of Twente’s Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC, The Netherlands) ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 22, 2010 3.5 / 5 (4) 0 |