Reef RangerBot becomes 'LarvalBot' to spread coral babies
QUT's reef protector robot is set to become 'mother' to hundreds of millions of baby corals in a special delivery coinciding with this month's annual coral spawning on the Great Barrier Reef.
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Baby orangutan Java unveiled at Paris zoo
France's oldest zoo on Wednesday welcomed its youngest member: Java, an eight-day old baby orangutan.
Female chimpanzees know which males are most likely to kill their babies
Research carried out by the University of Kent sheds light on the infanticidal behaviour of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and demonstrates that females are highly sensitive to the relative risks posed to their babies by different ...
Colombian zoo celebrates birth of endangered spider monkey
A zoo in Colombia is celebrating the birth of a baby spider monkey, a rare species in danger of extinction.
Mini video cameras offer peek at hard-to-observe bird behavior
Fledging behavior—when and why baby birds leave the nest—is something scientists know very little about. Rarely is someone watching a nest at just the right moment to see fledging happen. To get around this, the researchers ...
Signs of bacteria in the bovine fetus
Contrary to earlier assumptions, the intestines of newborn calves are not sterile, but contain DNA from various bacteria. Bacteria or their fragments originating in the mother may be significant to the development of the ...
Mammal forerunner that reproduced like a reptile sheds light on brain evolution
Compared with the rest of the animal kingdom, mammals have the biggest brains and produce some of the smallest litters of offspring. A newly described fossil of an extinct mammal relative—and her 38 babies—is among the ...
Precise records of baby stars' growth caught at millimeter wavelengths
Babies grow up fast, in the blink of an eye, and thus their parents wish to record their growth without missing any moment. This is true not only for human babies but also for baby stars, called protostars, although the recorders ...
France's first baby panda celebrates one-year anniversary
France's first baby panda celebrates his one-year anniversary Saturday with a birthday cake composed of bamboo, honey, apples, oranges, strawberries and lemons.
Premature baby penguin recovers after parents broke her egg
London Zoo says a premature baby penguin has been nursed back to health after her parents accidentally stepped on her egg and broke it.
