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Study shows competition, not climate change, led to Neanderthal extinction

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 29, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 4

In a recently conducted study, a multidisciplinary French-American research team with expertise in archaeology, past climates, and ecology reported that Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with ...





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New climate treaty could put species at risk

Space & Earth / Environment

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Plans to be discussed at the forthcoming UN climate conference in Copenhagen to cut deforestation in developing countries could save some species from extinction but inadvertently increase the risk to others, scientists believe.


EU: bluefin tuna catches to be reduced

Biology / Ecology

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(AP) -- The EU Commission says over 45 countries who catch tuna have agreed to cut catches of the threatened Atlantic bluefin tuna next year.


Gov't says brown pelicans are endangered no longer (AP)

Gov't says brown pelicans are endangered no longer

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Much like its death-defying dives for fish, the brown pelican has resurfaced after plummeting to the brink of extinction.


Forget all about it: Traumatic memories can be erased

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

It is well known that fear memories are permanent. However, a recent paper in Science, evaluated by three Faculty Members for F1000, reports an extraordinary finding that supports the use of a drug to control recollections of tra ...


W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback (AP)

W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.


Can biodiversity persist in the face of climate change?

Can biodiversity persist in the face of climate change?

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Predictions made over the last decade about the impacts of climate change on biodiversity may be exaggerated, according to a paper published in the journal Science.


The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula

The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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

Spanish researchers have studied the fossil record of hadrosaurs, the so-called 'duck-billed' dinosaurs, in the Iberian Peninsula for the purpose of determining that they were the last of their kind to inhabit ...


Bacteria expect the unexpected

Bacteria expect the unexpected: Scientists observe the emergence of a new adaptation strategy

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Organisms ensure the survival of their species by genetically adapting to the environment. If environmental conditions change too rapidly, the extinction of a species may be the consequence. A strategy to ...


Timber harvest impacts amphibians differently during life stages

Timber harvest impacts amphibians differently during life stages

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Frogs are croaking in clear-cut forests, but not exactly in their traditional manner. University of Missouri researchers found that removing all of the trees from a section of the forest had a negative effect ...


Over 1,000 fish species 'threatened with extinction'

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More than 1,000 freshwater fish species are threatened with extinction, reflecting the strain on global water resources, an updated global "Red List" of endangered species showed Tuesday.



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