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Wild boars in the wild

Achtung, bunny's back in town

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hares, foxes and wild boar are increasingly migrating into Germany's cities, causing havoc and even sometimes endangering humans, a major wildlife organisation said on Monday.





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Working to conserve endangered 'Playboy' bunnies

Working to conserve endangered 'Playboy' bunnies

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's legacy will live on with a new University of Central Florida study aimed at saving the endangered bunnies named after him.


Who can cool his body fast? Toucan (AP)

Who can cool his body fast? Toucan

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- The toucan's colorful bill gives new meaning to the phrase cool dude. Indeed, that gigantic schnoz turns out to be a radiator the rain forest dweller uses to lose body heat. The bill of the Toco Toucan ...


Live-in domestics: Mites as maids in tropical rainforest sweat bee nests

Live-in domestics: Mites as maids in tropical rainforest sweat bee nests

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mites not only inhabit the dust bunnies under the bed, they also occupy the nests of tropical sweat bees where they keep fungi in check. Bees and their young are healthier when mites live-in, report researchers ...


Easter bunny may be close to extinction say University of Exeter students

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 20, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Easter may never be the same again once production starts rolling on new machinery developed by engineering undergraduates.


Multiplying like bunnies? Not this jackrabbit

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Rabbits are certainly known for their propensity to multiply, but one species of jackrabbit is having trouble keeping up. There are an estimated 150 white-sided jackrabbits left in the United States, and federal ...


Snow slackers can be found around the world

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

The streets were strangely quiet as I walked my daughter to school Tuesday morning. Baby stroller traffic jams are the norm in our south London neighborhood, nicknamed the "Nappy Valley" for its prodigious birthrate. But ...


Galactic Dust Bunnies Found to Contain Carbon After All

Galactic Dust Bunnies Found to Contain Carbon After All

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have found evidence suggesting that stars rich in carbon complex molecules may form at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.


Astronomers Map Out Planetary Danger Zone

Astronomers Map Out Planetary Danger Zone

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 18, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Astronomers have laid down the cosmic equivalent of yellow "caution" tape around super hot stars, marking the zones where cooler stars are in danger of having their developing planets blasted away.


Birth rate, competition are major players in hominid extinctions

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created Feb 16, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Modern human mothers are probably happy that they typically have one, maybe two babies at a time, but for early hominids, low birth numbers combined with competition often spelled extinction.


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Binary asteroid in Jupiter's orbit may be icy comet from solar system's infancy

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created Feb 01, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A bound pair of icy comets similar to the dirty snowballs circling outside the orbit of Neptune has been found lurking in the shadow of Jupiter. Astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, working ...



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