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Scientists release Key Largo wood rats in first test of restocking experiment

The seven pioneers spent the week preparing for their upcoming ordeal in North Key Largo, sampling berries and other local fare, redecorating homes with sticks, leaves and whatever else they got their little paws on, and ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 10, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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US bans import of Burmese pythons

The United States announced Tuesday it is banning the import of Burmese pythons and three other species of giant constrictor snakes due to the danger they pose to local wildlife.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Petrified Forest adds 26,000 acres of private land

(AP) -- The federal government is gaining control over an even larger expanse of rainbow-colored petrified wood, fossils from the dawning age of dinosaurs and petroglyphs left by American Indian tribes who once lived in ...

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created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Genetic study offers insight into the social lives of bees

Most people have trouble telling them apart, but bumble bees, honey bees, stingless bees and solitary bees have home lives that are as different from one another as a monarch's palace is from a hippie commune ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

East Polynesia colonized faster and more recently than previously thought

New research by an international team of scholars shows early human colonization of Eastern Polynesia took place much faster and more recently than previously established.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Carnivorous plants losing ground in the U.S.

"This is the easy part," says Barry Rice, half-sliding, half-falling down a ravine through a latticework of dead branches.

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New study strengthens link between everyday stress and obesity using an animal model

Bethesda, MD-Stress can take a daily toll on us that has broad physical and psychological implications. Science has long documented the effect of extreme stress, such as war, injury or traumatic grief on humans. Typically, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Frontal cortex dysfunction may contribute to compulsive sexual behavior

Sex "addiction" is a concept that has had particularly high visibility recently with the publicity associated with Tiger Woods. Persons with addictive or compulsive disorders frequently display an inability to inhibit behaviors ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 10, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Fragmented forests result in more snakes, fewer birds

About half of all bird nests don't survive due to predators, particularly in fragmented forest areas, but why? University of Illinois researchers monitored both the prey and predator to find an answer.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 04, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Coconut palms bring ecological change to tropics, researchers say

(PhysOrg.com) -- Those graceful coconut palms swaying in tropical breezes are lowering nutrient levels in the soils and the plants around them, thereby altering the eating habits of animals. Researchers say ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)

Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid ...

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created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 0


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