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Brown tree snake could mean Guam will lose more than its birds

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created Aug 08, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where they have few predators. Unchecked for many years, ...





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Australia's most endangered snake might need burning

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Conserving Australia's most endangered snake might mean lighting more bush fires, ecologists have proposed.


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'Vicious' Giant Python Invading Florida

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New studies suggest a 20 foot snake, the African rock python, is making its home in Florida and could soon invade the Everglades National Park.


Snakes and how they helped our big brains evolve

Biology / Evolution

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 2

The threat of snakes gave primates superior vision and large brains -- and fueled a critical aspect of human evolution, UC Davis anthropology professor Lynne Isbell argues in a new book.


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Rare flowering of Chinese tree in Belgium

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

An endangered Chinese tree has flowered in a Belgian arboretum, an event seldom seen anywhere in Europe, the garden's curator said Wednesday.


Artificial refuges created to save the reptiles of Doņana

Artificial refuges created to save the reptiles of Doņana

Biology / Ecology

created 17 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Aznalcóllar mining accident more than 11 years ago, which contaminated part of the Doņana National Park, also damaged reptile habitat there. Now a team of Spanish researchers, who have been studying ...


Researchers reveal secrets of snake flight

Other Sciences /

created May 12, 2005 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

It seems size does matters after all. But for flying snakes, smaller is better, according to University of Chicago researchers. In the May 15, 2005, issue of the Journal of Experimental Biology, scientists described the ...


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Venomous sea snakes play heads or tails with their predators

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In a deadly game of heads or tails venomous sea snakes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans deceive their predators into believing they have two heads, claims research published today in Marine Ecology.


Northwestern United States could face more tamarisk invasion by century's end

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

If the future warming trends that scientists have projected are realized, one of the country's most aggressive exotic plants will have the potential to invade more U.S. land area, according to a new study published in the ...


Study of isolated snakes could help shed light on venom composition

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

While studying a way to more safely and effectively collect snake venom, University of Florida researchers have noticed the venom delivered by an isolated population of Florida cottonmouth snakes may be changing in response ...


Northwest salmon recovery plan may include breaching dams

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a case closely followed by environmental and business interests, a rewritten plan for restoring endangered and threatened wild salmon runs on the Columbia and Snake rivers in Washington state and Idaho includes studying ...



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