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Sensational bird finding in China

In June 2011, a team of Chinese and Swedish researchers rediscovered the breeding area for the poorly known Blackthroat Luscinia obscura, in the Qinling mountains, Shaanxi province, north central China.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Seeing red: Decoding the hidden information on robins' feathers

Red breasted robins are a classic symbol of the winter months and have adorned Christmas cards for over a century. Ornithologists studying the feathers of the European robin (Erithacus rubecula) have discov ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?

(AP) -- Tucked between treatises on algae and prehistoric turquoise beads, the study on page 460 of a long-ago issue of the U.S. journal Science drew little attention.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 24, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (28) | comments 97

Search for 'lost' frogs yields important warnings, few findings

A glimmer of hope, but much cause for concern. Those are the reactions from teams of scientists from around the world that have returned from an unprecedented search for 100 species of “lost” amphibians ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Birders prepare for count mindful of mass die-offs

(AP) -- Thousands of citizen-scientists across North America are getting out their tally sheets for the 13th annual Great Backyard Bird Count, a usually festive weekend given a more serious edge after the ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Positive ecological change could stem from invasive plants

A team of scientists has discovered that human-introduced, invasive species of plants can have positive ecological effects. Tomás Carlo, an assistant professor of biology at Penn State University, and ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 11, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Managing nature reserves using ecological disturbances can easily go wrong

Ecological disturbances are not necessarily a bad thing – deliberate disturbances can actually be used to preserve or even increase biodiversity in a nature reserve. The outcome depends on countless different ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Three new amphibian treasures found on search for 'lost' frogs

A team of scientists on a quest to rediscover several "lost" amphibians in western Colombia has returned with a surprising result: three species of frogs believed to be entirely new to science, Conservation ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Rescue missions underway to save Haiti's species from mass extinctions

Haiti is on the brink of an era of mass extinctions similar to the time when dinosaurs and many other species suddenly disappeared from the Earth, reports a biologist at Penn State University, who is announcing ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Do holes make moles? Surprising first ancestor of bizarre marsupial moles

(PhysOrg.com) -- The mysterious origins of Australia's bizarre and secretive marsupial moles have been cast in a whole new and unexpected light with the first discovery in the fossil record of one of their ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 3 | with audio podcast


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