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Plants & Animals Sep 20, 2021

Conservation study: Fostering wanderlust benefits pandas

In the ongoing quest to understand what makes a good wildlife habitat, surprising new research shows there may be too much of a good thing when it comes to pinpointing optimal conditions. Embracing somewhat reduced standards ...

Plants & Animals Sep 16, 2021

Why some fish are 'junk' and others are protected. Study points to bias against native species

Andrew Rypel grew up fishing on Wisconsin's pristine lakes and rivers. With just a worm on his hook, he caught suckers, gar, sunfish and other native fish he never saw in his game fishing magazines.

Plants & Animals Sep 6, 2021

Tiny, pink and identical: Giant panda twins born at Madrid zoo

A giant panda gave birth to twin cubs at Madrid zoo on Monday in what officials hailed was a "great contribution" to the conservation of the vulnerable species.

Ecology Aug 19, 2021

China villagers learn to live with the elephant in the room

Ma Mingliang rarely encountered wild elephants while growing up in southwestern China, after centuries of hunting and deforestation nearly eradicated them. Today, the 42-year-old village chief barricades his community to ...

Plants & Animals Aug 15, 2021

Singapore zoo breeds first panda cub 

A panda bred via artificial insemination was born in Singapore's zoo on Saturday, the first cub to be born in the city-state.

Plants & Animals Aug 2, 2021

Panda loaned to France gives birth to twins: zoo

Huan Huan, a giant panda on loan to France, gave birth to twin cubs very early Monday, according to the Beauval zoo.

Plants & Animals Jul 20, 2021

Panda loaned to France by China is pregnant again: zoo

Huan Huan, a giant panda on loan to France by Beijing since 2012, is pregnant again and could soon grace the country with her second cub, the Beauval zoo in central France said Tuesday.

Ecology Jul 15, 2021

Mexico announces new plan to protect near-extinct porpoise

The Mexican government on Wednesday announced new measures that it said were aimed at saving the critically endangered vaquita porpoise, the world's rarest marine mammal.

Plants & Animals Jul 9, 2021

The evolution of the giant panda's temporomandibular joint and premolar teeth enabled adaptation to bamboo diet

Although the giant panda is in practice a herbivore, its masticatory system functions differently from the other herbivores. Through the processes of natural selection, the giant panda's dietary preference has strongly impacted ...

Biochemistry Jun 25, 2021

DNAzymes could outperform protein enzymes for genetic engineering

Move over, gene-editing proteins—there's a smaller, cheaper, more specific genetic engineering tool on the block: DNAzymes—small DNA molecules that can function like protein enzymes.

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