The law on keeping dangerous snakes as pets should be tightened up, animal welfare experts demand in this week's issue of the Vet Record.
Ecology
Mar 19, 2020
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Imagine purchasing products from your local grocer, only to find out that those products consist of critically endangered species. That's what a team from the University of Hong Kong, Division of Ecology and Biodiversity ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2020
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A study of puddles has shown that bacteria evolve and adapt differently depending on the make-up of the community of bacteria they live within.
Evolution
Feb 13, 2020
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At a time when kombucha is commonplace on cafe menus and "probiotic-fortified" has become the newest health buzzword, our guts have never been more relevant. With good reason, humans have begun paying more attention to the ...
Evolution
Jan 7, 2020
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The North Atlantic was once home to a bird that bore a remarkable similarity to penguins. The great auk, also known as "the original penguin", was a large, flightless, black and white bird, that is said to have existed in ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 13, 2019
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"Cephalopods were the first intelligent animals on the planet."
Plants & Animals
Dec 11, 2019
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Bats face many threats—from habitat loss and climate change to emerging diseases, such as white-nose syndrome. But it appears that wildfire is not among those threats, suggests a study from the University of California, ...
Ecology
Dec 5, 2019
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Using sophisticated screening across animal species, researchers at Yale have created a cellular blueprint of the human lung that will make it easier to understand the design principles behind lung function and disease—and ...
Biotechnology
Dec 5, 2019
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How much have humans affected the population of other species on the planet? A new methodology for documenting the cumulative human impacts on biodiversity aims to answer this question.
Ecology
Nov 6, 2019
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Compared to a decade ago, today the number of insect species in many areas has decreased by about one-third. This is the result of a survey of an international research team led by scientists from the Technical University ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2019
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