Dotted among a small flock of sheep in a field in the Scottish Highlands, Luigi and Peaches, two young working dogs with thick white coats, are busy being trained to keep watch on the skies above.
Plants & Animals
Aug 6, 2023
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The World Health Organization said more than two dozen cats have been infected with bird flu across Poland, but no people appeared to have been sickened.
Veterinary medicine
Jul 17, 2023
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In an advance that will help scientists track coronavirus variants in wild and domesticated animals, researchers report they can now detect exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in any animal species. Most coronavirus antibody ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 6, 2023
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Most Australians (97%) want more action to protect nature, even if they don't know the full extent of the biodiversity crisis. That's the startling finding emerging from our first national survey of 4,000 voters.
Ecology
Jun 20, 2023
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The testis is the natural stem cell reservoir for the formation of male germ cells. Understanding this process is a prerequisite for enabling the formation of male germ cells "in the test tube." This procedure is becoming ...
Plants & Animals
May 11, 2023
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The elusive striped "cat-fox" familiar mostly to Corsican shepherds and as a source of intrigue to scientists, is indeed its own species specific to the French Mediterranean island, the French office for Biodiversity (OFB) ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2023
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Australia's natural world is in deep trouble. Many of our species are getting rarer. Some are now perilously close to extinction, while entire ecosystems face collapse.
Plants & Animals
Feb 17, 2023
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You might think evolution is glacially slow. At a species level, that's true. But evolution happens every time organisms produce offspring. The everyday mixing of genes—combined with mutations—throws up new generations ...
Evolution
Jan 20, 2023
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The Cayman Islands has announced it will start culling feral cats to help save a dwindling colony of brown booby birds.
Ecology
Jan 11, 2023
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A team of researchers led by Narimane Chatar, a doctoral student at the EDDyLab of the University of Liège (Belgium), has tested the biting efficiency of Smilodon, an extinct genus of carnivore close to the extant felines. ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Dec 8, 2022
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