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Livestock, not Mongolian gazelles, drive foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks

Wildlife health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society have published evidence which supports the conclusion that Mongolian gazelles—one of the most populous large land mammals on the planet—are ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ancient walls reveal evidence of mass gazelle slaughters

(PhysOrg.com) -- A report published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences details the proof found that "desert kites" were used as slaughter structures for civilizations as long as 6,000 years ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Why Female Water Buffalo Have Horns but Impala Do Not?

(PhysOrg.com) -- The reason some female hoofed animals have horns while others do not has long puzzled evolutionary biologists, even the great Charles Darwin. But now a survey of 117 bovid species led by Ted Stankowich, professor ...

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Afghanistan releases its first-ever list of protected species

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today that the Afghanistan's National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA), in an effort to safeguard its natural heritage, has released the country's first-ever list of protected ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Wild dogs didn't go extinct in east Africa after all

In 1991, conservationists announced with dismay that endangered African wild dogs had gone extinct from the Serengeti-Mara region of east Africa. Now the latest genetic study reveals that this proclamation ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Two rhino species bite the dust: Red List

Several species of rhino have been poached into extinction or to the point of no return, according to an update of the Red List of Threatened Species, the gold standard for animal and plant conservation.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Solving the mysteries of short-legged Neandertals

(PhysOrg.com) -- While most studies have concluded that a cold climate led to the short lower legs typical of Neandertals, researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that lower leg lengths shorter than the typical modern human’s ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Eat, prey, rain

What do a herd of gazelles and a fluffy mass of clouds have in common? A mathematical formula that describes the population dynamics of such prey animals as gazelles and their predators has been used to model the relationship ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Photonic neuron may compute a billion times faster than brain circuits

(PhysOrg.com) -- The name of the project -- "photonic neuron" -- was catchy enough, but what really caught Mitchell Nahmias' attention was the opportunity to combine his interests in engineering and neuroscience.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 9

Scientists report changes in vegetation determine how animals migrate

The predictability and scale of seasonal changes in a habitat help determine the distance migratory species move and whether the animals always travel together to the same place or independently to different locations, according ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hidden water holds the key to a changing desert

Passover, which celebrates the Israelites' flight from Egypt, ended Tuesday night. Yet after the exodus, they wandered the desert for 40 more years. There, Moses struck a rock with his staff and made water ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

When African animals hit the hay: Fossil teeth show who ate what and when as grasses emerged

Fossil teeth of African animals show that during the past 10 million years, different plant-eating critters began grazing on grass at different times as many switched from a salad-bar diet of tree leaves and ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Retailers want to sell you gadgets, buy them back later, and then sell them again

You know that shiny smart phone you bought six months ago? There's an even better one hitting the market right about now. Or how about that flat-panel TV you bought last year. Now they come in 3-D.

Technology / Business

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The association between unhealthy behaviors and socioeconomic status differs between countries

According to a study by Silvia Stringhini and colleagues from INSERM, (U1018 Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health) and University College London, (Department of Epidemiology and Public Health), published ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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