DNA work saves fish from extinction
Flinders University scientists have created a model for conservation programs after helping to bring local populations of native pygmy perch back from extinction.
Flinders University scientists have created a model for conservation programs after helping to bring local populations of native pygmy perch back from extinction.
Ecology
Mar 9, 2016
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As spring arrives, Floridians become more active outdoors -- and so do snakes.
Ecology
Feb 16, 2010
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers working in Australia has found via DNA analysis, that the lack of genetic diversity in pygmy blue whales is due to natural causes, not because of whaling. In their paper published in the ...
A rare pygmy sperm whale has washed ashore the Cayman Islands and died.
Plants & Animals
Feb 9, 2013
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Despite the great cultural, physical, and genetic diversity found amongst the numerous West Central African human populations that are collectively designated as "Pygmies," a report published online on February 5th in Current ...
Feb 5, 2009
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Australian researchers have successfully bred two genetically distinct Mountain Pygmy-possums, playing a major role in preventing the endangered population in the Victorian Alpine region from further decline.
Plants & Animals
May 26, 2011
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Three pygmy marmosets—the world's smallest monkey species—have been stolen from a zoo in the western German city of Dortmund, police said on Wednesday.
Plants & Animals
Aug 12, 2015
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An updated metric for prioritizing species' conservation that incorporates scientific uncertainty and complementarity between species, in addition to extinction risk and evolutionary distinctiveness, has been published on ...
Evolution
Feb 28, 2023
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The origin of the 'Celtic fringe' of genetically and culturally distinctive people in the northern and western British Isles is the source of fierce academic controversy.
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2009
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A pygmy elephant has been found dead in a river on the Malaysian part of Borneo island, an official said Friday, the latest of the endangered creatures to perish.
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2019
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