News tagged with horse adoptions


Federal agency spurs people to adopt wild horses

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A federal agency is hoping older wild mustangs rounded up from the range will find new homes with a program that will offer stipends to owners who adopt them.





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Cloned horse gives birth

Biology /

created May 01, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Italian scientist Cesare Galli says the world's first cloned horse, Prometea, has given birth to a healthy foal.


Groups seek more room for bison to roam

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created Mar 06, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Give bison running room in a cattle-free zone in Montana outside Yellowstone National Park, wildlife advocates and homeowners said.


Rise in institutionalized children linked to'Madonna-style' adoption

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 09, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Psychologists at the University of Liverpool say that ‘Madonna-style’ inter-country adoptions are causing a rise in the number of children in orphanages.


Horse genome sequence draft is issued

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 07, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The U.S.-led Horse Genome Sequencing Project has issued its first draft, making it available to biomedical and veterinary scientists around the world.


Scientists work to save Strangford horse mussels

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Queen's University Belfast is working on a three-year study to conserve and restore endangered horse mussel reefs in Strangford Lough.


Genome sequence for the domestic horse to be unveiled

Genome sequence for the domestic horse unveiled

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The whole genome sequence of the domestic horse has been completed by the genome-sequencing center of The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in collaboration with an international team of researchers that ...


Scientists uncover the key to predicting the price of a show-jumper

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The higher a horse can tuck up its front legs the higher its price on the international market, scientists at Newcastle University have revealed.


Digital frame virus traced to China

Technology / Software

created Feb 19, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 2

A powerful virus recently discovered in digital photo frames has been identified as a Chinese Trojan Horse that gathers personal information.


Fossil teeth of browsing horse found in Panama Canal earthworks

Fossil teeth of browsing horse found in Panama Canal earthworks

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rushing to salvage fossils from the Panama Canal earthworks, Aldo Rincon, paleontology intern at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, unearthed a set of fossil teeth. Bruce J. MacFadden, curator of ...


More support needed for families adopting from foster care

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new University of Illinois study of families adopting from foster care revealed significant declines in professional services and social support over the first three years of adoptive family life, even though parents indicated ...



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