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Scientists have known for a very long time that there are literally thousands of species of unknown creatures living in the ocean, at impressive depths, without having ever seen the light of day. In a new set of investigations, carried out for the Census of Marine Life initiative, scientists have found no less than 1... |
23 November 2009
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According to what evidence we have collected from the fossil record, dinosaurs ruled the land over what is now the Sahara desert more than 100 million years ago. But recent investigations have also revealed some of their companions, including an entire ensemble of crocodiles that seems to have accompanied the giant l... |
20 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Homo floresiensis is only represented in the fossil record through a few fossilized remains, but they are enough to earn the small creature the rank of human species. A new study has recently concluded that the creature, which was jokingly dubbed the “hobbit,” was an actual human species, and not just a d... |
19 November 2009
09:20 GMT |
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Evolutionary biologists looking into the evolutionary rates and patterns of Adelie penguins have recently determined that the animals appear to be evolving at a much faster pace than previously calculated. In the research, scientists looked at mitochondrial DNA samples collected from penguins currently living in rook... |
18 November 2009
05:52 GMT |
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Working in the Galapagos Archipelago, where Charles Darwin himself studied the behavior of finches more than 150 years ago, scientists have recently announced that they have managed to capture an elusive moment in the history of a group of birds – the creation of a new species from a new strain. The investigato... |
17 November 2009
08:58 GMT |
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Over the past two million years or so, we have evolved to the point where we've reached about the maximum possible size of our brains. As anthropologists may argue, our brain capacities may actually be getting smaller, and all for a simple reason – the anatomical difficulties that birthing a large-headed c... |
17 November 2009
06:00 GMT |
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The koala bears are some of the most beautiful animals on the entire planet, and yet they are now threatened with extinction due to loss of habitat and human activities. A new report provides a bleak perspective to their future, showing that the bears could disappear completely within less than 30 years. The most sev... |
10 November 2009
20:01 GMT |
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It is widely known among experts that smaller animals have a higher metabolic rate, which means that they essentially have to consume more food in order to be able to function. A famous example in this sense is the hummingbird, which has to consume several times its own weight in pollen each day in order to be able t... |
24 October 2009
05:17 GMT |
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Under the US Endangered Species Act of 2008, the polar bear populations in Alaska have been listed with an increased risk of extinction. Global warming and human activities in the area are considerably reducing the habitats in which the bears usually live, so the US Department of the Interior has recently issued an i... |
24 October 2009
03:15 GMT |
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A team of paleontologists from three American universities has recently discovered a new species of primates that is not related to humans in any way. The find was made about 40 miles from Cairo, in Egypt. The lead researcher for the new investigation has been paleontologist Erik Seiffert, from the Stony Brook Univer... |
22 October 2009
01:45 GMT |
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A new scientific study evidenced the fact that the average farm pig could learn to find food with the help of mirror reflections in less than five hours. As this ability pigs had had been proven, experts added it to the small number of species who could recognize themselves in the mirror, which included dolphins, som... |
9 October 2009
03:08 GMT |
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In a recent investigation of caves, caverns and underground water streams, conducted in the Australian Outback, researchers have discovered no less than 850 new animal species, ranging from fish and insects to crustaceans and beetles. Most of the newly discovered creatures were pale, a natural adaptation to their lig... |
28 September 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Because of their impressive sizes, whales provide a source of food for many aquatic organisms upon their death. Their carcasses sink to the ocean floor, where they become the base structure for an entire ecosystem that begins to be built around their bones. It is in such ecosystems that experts recently discovered ne... |
21 September 2009
05:59 GMT |
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Over the past century or so, the spread of invasive species in new habitats has increased in proportions and severity. With the advent of modern transportation, it has become a lot easier for pests or new species to enter habitats they were not designed to function into. If they manage to adapt to the new conditions,... |
18 September 2009
02:59 GMT |
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There are literally hundreds of dog species around the world, and most of them can be easily recognized by their unique hairdos, featuring various types of curls, thicknesses, and other such elements. For a long time, experts have wondered what it is exactly that sets breed coiffures apart from one another in terms o... |
28 August 2009
05:26 GMT |
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With the growing threat of global warming and climate change looming ahead, biologists are beginning to plan for the future. A debate is currently raging in the international community as to which way of protecting endangered species and conserving biodiversity is the best. While some believe that local programs appl... |
25 August 2009
21:41 GMT |
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Following a ten-year study conducted in the most remote regions of the Himalaya Mountains, scientists finally announced the results this week. According to the official numbers, at least 350 new species were discovered living on the mountain, including plants, insects, fish, mammals, birds and invertebrates. The regi... |
12 August 2009
01:32 GMT |
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In a new research published in yesterday's issue of the journal Biology Letters, experts have used modern 3D reconstruction techniques to model some of the largest and most dangerous spiders that lived 359 to 299 million years ago for the first time. About the size of a 20 penny piece, the spiders were revealed ... |
5 August 2009
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For the first time, researchers studying the behavior of the Asian super ant Lasius neglectus have discovered that the small insects seem to have a rather morbid attraction to electrical installations. This liking that the ants have taken in wires, which the experts plastically call the “kamikaze attraction,&rd... |
3 August 2009
02:01 GMT |
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According to a new study conducted by experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), mammals can now be declared the winners of the evolutionary race, outclassing reptiles in the fight for survival. Fish and birds also moved ahead of reptiles, each exhibiting large species diversity, which means that ... |
1 August 2009
02:06 GMT |
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In a new study they have conducted in the central regions of Laos, scientists have discovered a rare species of songbirds, which appears to be completely bald. Its head is completely feather-free, and the bird represents, according to researchers, the only type of bald songbird in Asia, and the first one to be report... |
31 July 2009
01:57 GMT |
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Naturalists have managed to finally rediscover a species of extremely rare and endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs, which were last spotted some half a century ago in California. Scientists from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the San Diego Natural History Museum discovered the elusive amphibians ... |
27 July 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Psychologists from the University of Leicester, in the United Kingdom, have recently published a work arguing that the trait humans have of waiting their turn when standing in line, for example, may have an evolutionary basis that transcends education and good manners. They have concluded that an “invisible han... |
9 July 2009
21:31 GMT |
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According to a new report released on Thursday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, some 869 species of plants and animals have gone extinct in the past 500 years, with an additional 17,000 more now at risk of disappearing as well. Additionally, the paper underlines the fact that the world's go... |
2 July 2009
06:40 GMT |
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For quite some time now, evolution experts have believed that animals evolve depending on their environments alone, adapting to the challenges that appear over the years, and becoming best fit to live in certain areas. But a new research comes to prove that other factors are at work in determining the speed at which ... |
26 June 2009
03:33 GMT |
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A new species of extinct giant lemurs was recently discovered in Madagascar, off the coast of southeastern Africa. A new report states that this was the first species to be added to the genus in more than a century, which makes this discovery all the more important. The new “addition” has been speculated ... |
29 May 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Yesterday, experts from the International Institute for Species Exploration at the Arizona State University (ASU) and an international committee of taxonomists announced the top 10 new species discovered in 2008, which have never before been studied. Some of them are weird because of their size, while others live in ... |
23 May 2009
06:29 GMT |
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According to the results of two years' worth of excellent archeology, experts can now argue that a newly discovered “pocket of life” in Northwestern Alberta, Canada, is a missing link between species that lived further to the North, and others that lived elsewhere in what is now the country. Many fos... |
15 May 2009
05:54 GMT |
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Studies on the origin of life on Earth seem to point to the fact that the first complex creatures developed around the Equator, hundreds of millions of years ago. As they evolved, their range expanded, and migrations eventually led the animals to all corners of the world. And while they adapted to cooler temperatures... |
3 April 2009
04:33 GMT |
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The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research's (SCAR) again finds itself at the forefront of scientific advancements, with the completion of the first set of databases meant to give naturalists, biologists and everyone else interested access to the first complete marine census in history.This March, the Intern... |
31 March 2009
09:36 GMT |
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More than 500,000 acres of land in the Mojave Desert are currently the target of extensive bidding on the part of renewable energy companies, which want to construct either solar power plants or wind farms here. However, their plans may be upset by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who said last Friday that the respective land ... |
25 March 2009
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All around the world, people are used to seeing all sorts of animals, of various shapes and sizes. New species appear or go extinct everyday, yet there are those creatures that seem so peculiar to us because they are very very tiny. And from an evolutionary point of view, they make no sense, seeing how size is usuall... |
11 February 2009
01:57 GMT |
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1.Birds really have their "dialects", just like human languages. When researchers played to the birds from one population the recorded song of birds from other population, they remained indifferent to the voice of the same species if coming from another area, even if for the human ear, the songs of both populations s... |
23 April 2008
11:15 GMT |
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Throughout the history of Earth, countless plant and animal species have appeared and disappeared, because not only individuals, but species too get old and become extinct. Best case scenario, they live on in related species, that may later evolve in new plant or animal groups. Very few species resisted throughout th... |
23 April 2008
03:56 GMT |
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Circus, in its modern meaning, has been employing both domestic and wild animals. The horse was the first animal used in circus shows, whose canons emerged during the 18th century. Since then, the circus animals have been gradually increasing in number and variety. At the beginning, the trainers used animals that wer... |
14 April 2008
10:59 GMT |
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It is one of the weirdest fish of the ocean: it has a human-like face, it sees binocularly (just like us) and it rather crawls into crevices than swims. This creature appears to make a new unknown family of fishes. The fish has been spotted off Ambon Island (Indonesia) and has tan- and peach-colored zebra-striping. T... |
4 April 2008
04:59 GMT |
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Opaque amber looks like a stone. The naked eye cannot see anything in this material. But, because it is a fossil resin, it can incorporate fossils like any other amber. So far, palaeontologists have found in amber from fossil insects and microbes to small vertebrates (like frogs), feathers, plant organs and pollen. N... |
3 April 2008
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The geological strata of the world are assigned to four ages: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary. The Earth is believed to be 4.5 billion years old, but the oldest rocks with visible fossils are just 590 million years old, from the beginning of the Cambrian. Cambrian fossils are made of a large array of life... |
12 March 2008
18:06 GMT |
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We are looking for new worlds on other planets, and we don't even know the worlds hosted by our own. A large array of giant mysterious creatures have been found by a recent two-month expedition in the freezing waters of Antarctica, including huge sea spiders and worms. The new specimens have been found inhabitin... |
21 February 2008
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Around 1500 AD, Europeans managed to kill the last ancestors of the domestic cattle, called aurochs. The auroch was a giant animal as compared to the domesticated cattle (1.8 m or 6 ft height in withers, compared to around 1.5 m or 5 ft in modern cattle). The body was black and the horns were lyre-shaped and set in a... |
6 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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In the 21th century, when we thought that all that is larger than a mouse has already been described by zoologists, the surprises keep coming. A new species of uakari monkey has been described in the International Journal of Primatology. Its discoverer is the New Zealand primatologist Jean-Phillipe Boubli of the Univ... |
6 February 2008
05:09 GMT |
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Languages behave just like species. This is the conclusion of a new research published in the Nature journal, showing that languages evolve in fits and starts, rather than gradually, a phenomenon called punctuated evolution in biology. The idea is not that new, but the British team employed mathematics to show this i... |
4 February 2008
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1.There are about 900,000 described species of insects, forming 80% of the described animal species, and scientists evaluate their actual number to be somewhere between 2 to 10 million species, including unknown species. Calculating the total number of insects on the globe, researchers found it overpassed by 200 bill... |
22 January 2008
16:56 GMT |
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Unlike the stuffed animals in the museums or the documentaries on wild life, a zoo gives you the opportunity to see wild animals alive with your own eyes, at close range. Today, as our knowledge about species' biology and behavior has increased, zoos come with conditions more similar to those required by the ani... |
9 January 2008
07:07 GMT |
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There's nothing taller on Earth: large giraffe bulls can be 6 m (20 ft) tall, and weigh up to 1.5 tonnes! If you look at giraffes across the African savannas, you'll see that they all look the same. With one exception: the shape and color of their spots. A new DNA research published in "BMC Biology" shows t... |
28 December 2007
05:10 GMT |
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Most cats are chicken enough not to face regular rats. But this rat would fight from equal to equal with a cat. An expedition made by an American-Indonesian team in a remote jungle in western New Guinea, in the area Papua province of Indonesia, has found a giant rat and a tiny possum that seem to be new undescribed ... |
18 December 2007
05:01 GMT |
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Human activity has triggered the fastest extinction rate in Earth's history. In the last 30 years, 33% of the natural places have disappeared: over 10% of the forests, 30% of the ecosystems and 50% of the freshwater ecosystems, due to increased agriculture and industry contamination as well as increased water co... |
15 December 2007
02:56 GMT |
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If you think that human evolution has just stopped, you're wrong. Not only are we still in the middle of a vivid evolution, but in 100,000 years, we will be split into two species: a sexy, intelligent power-detaining elite and an underclass of low intelligence, ugly dwarf humanoids.This is what Dr. Oliver Curry,... |
29 October 2007
15:06 GMT |
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The rarity and the tame look of the giant panda, resembling a living teddy bear, transformed this animal into the symbol of the fight for the preservation of endangered species. But have you ever thought that what you see is a bear? An odd bear, but a real bear! The line that led to panda appeared about 12 million ye... |
27 October 2007
07:38 GMT |
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