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Given our general behavior, our species should no longer be called Homo sapiens, which is Latin for Wise Man. That is no longer the case, a number of experts add, given our short-sightedness, our bickering, and our general predisposition towards selfishness.None of these attributes belongs to a wise man. Even our soc... |
18 August 2011
04:27 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the National University of Ireland (NUI) says that two types of genes which date back more than 1.5 billion years ago tend to remain separate even now, after living together for such a long time. They interact only minimally, and generally stay out of each other's ways. These two ge... |
5 August 2011
04:24 GMT |
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A new investigation from experts at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, evidence that even basic microbes are capable of sophisticated sensory adaptation.This was though to be impossible in lower species until now. Researchers w... |
2 August 2011
04:49 GMT |
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In a recent study conducted on small RNA molecules called microRNA, experts in Heidelberg, Germany, determined that the last common ancestor humans and worms shared have a sophisticated brain. The animal roamed the world's seas more than 600 million years ago.Experts at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory ... |
1 August 2011
04:44 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) say that small and large species alike respect the same rule when it comes to determining how common they are in a given ecosystem. All ecosystems on our planet contain numerous species of animals, plants and microorganisms, and all these species are... |
22 July 2011
05:51 GMT |
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A recent set of studies reveals the methods some bacteria employ in order to destroy competition. Many colonies fight to keep other invading cells at bay, and researchers have just obtained a deep insight into one of these elaborate strategies. According to investigators, one of the technique certain species of micro... |
21 July 2011
03:47 GMT |
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When experts began excavations at an ancient dig site in west-central Colorado, they immediately started finding bones and fossils. With time, however, the dig grew so massive that the original team needed to call in reinforcements from surrounding areas to help with the effort. In the end, this turned out to be the ... |
9 July 2011
06:58 GMT |
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In an interesting new research, experts were able to confirm the existence of numerous similarities between the cultural and social behaviors of chimpanzees and dolphins, despite the obvious, marked differences that exist between the two species. It would appear that these similarities developed in spite of the fact ... |
6 July 2011
09:25 GMT |
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Experts with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announce that the conclusions of their latest study support in part the idea that the survival of a population of endangered shorebird species is dependent on the number of horseshoe crabs living inside the same ecosystem. The shorebird species is called red kno... |
5 July 2011
10:57 GMT |
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According to the first investigation of its kind, it would appear that most of the world's “missing” plant species that experts have been unable to find until now are concentrated right under our noses, inside the world's renowned biodiversity hotspots. The study unveiled equally good and bad ne... |
5 July 2011
10:25 GMT |
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Biologists have determined that alligators play an important role in connecting habitats that would otherwise not interact at well. The creatures have been found to move from freshwater to the salty waters of estuaries and the open sea. After such a commute, the animals always return to their freshwater home, but the... |
24 June 2011
08:08 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the University of Minnesota in Twin Cities managed to prove that highly-structured organisms can develop from inferior ones, when they watched single-celled microbes in a test tube evolve into multicellular lifeforms. The latter were prefect capable of reproduction, which means that they... |
23 June 2011
10:17 GMT |
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A team of experts claims it manage to discover the oldest signs of biomineralization, the process through which some animals convert minerals into hard structures. All shelled creatures are capable of doing this, and now scientists say they may have found their common ancestor.The microscopic organisms the team found... |
14 June 2011
08:57 GMT |
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In a move to be commended, the government of Mozambique has recently declared Lake Malawi to be a protected area. The lake, one of the deepest and largest on the entire African Continent, houses several thousand species that can only be found here. As such, it embodies the very definition of a biodiversity hotspot, s... |
14 June 2011
05:41 GMT |
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In a new study, experts have determined that organisms cannot adapt to the rapid pace at which our world is warming. The researchers say that even less complex lifeforms – which pass through multiple generations in relatively-short time frames – have a very difficult time doing so. In past investigations,... |
9 June 2011
04:41 GMT |
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While analyzing Hawaiian monk seal, a highly endangered species living in the Pacific Ocean, researchers were able to identify a potent and highly-debilitating toxin manifesting its effects inside the defenseless animals. The discovery has prompted experts to start investigation other species for signs of the contami... |
8 June 2011
08:02 GMT |
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Humans, as well as other species, are superstitious creatures, even though there is no evolutionary benefit to being so. Or is there one, researchers ask, in light of new studies that explain how the behavior caught root and endured over the ages. In humans, superstition is more widespread than in other species. Many... |
8 June 2011
04:20 GMT |
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A massive island located to the east of the African coast is proving to be one of the most interesting hot spots for finding new species. Since 1999, experts managed to identify more than 615 new species living on the island. A new species is discovered in Madagascar, on average, about once per week. This rhythm has ... |
6 June 2011
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that males belonging to two bipedal hominid species were more keen to staying at home, then they were to roaming the savannas. The study indicates that the females of the species were responsible for that. These discoveries were made in t... |
3 June 2011
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The Russian government has barred all oil-extracting companies seeking to conduct business in the Sakhalin Island from carrying out their activities when Western gray whales are present in the area. As such, any economic agency seeking to appropriate any of the newly-available concessions will have to respect this me... |
30 May 2011
10:47 GMT |
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Scientists with the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) announce the discovery of a fundamental flaw in the methods used to calculate the rate at which species go extinct. The implication this work has is suggesting that currently-accepted extinction rates are higher than in reality.These rates may in fact... |
19 May 2011
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Fossils discovered at a site in West Texas reveal the existence of a previously-unknown primate species, that lived about 43 million years ago. This discovery could help experts develop better classifications of the way primates evolved from origins up to this point. The new primate species has been named Mescalerole... |
17 May 2011
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that the Neanderthal Man went extinct as much as 10,000 years earlier than experts previously calculated. The finding is based on a series of investigations in which researchers dated fossils belonging to this species directly. During the experim... |
12 May 2011
04:41 GMT |
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Unlike their more modern descendants, early marsupials were living in large social groups, a study of a mass grave containing fossilized remains of early marsupials indicates. The work sheds some more light on the behavior of animals that lived millions of years ago.The particular creatures that were discovered in th... |
9 May 2011
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According to the conclusions of a new investigation carried out by experts at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom, it would appear that some animal species were not as drastically affected by the most brutal extinction event in the history of the planet as experts first believed. The event in question is... |
6 May 2011
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Experts with the Stowers Institute for Medical Research announce the creation of a new, all-female lizard species. The animals were produced in a scientific laboratory, and their “genesis” is not entirely unique – a similar speciation process is known to have taken place in nature as well. Though ex... |
4 May 2011
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Antarctica was until recently the most pristine continent in the world, but that situation is currently changing. Research scientists, tourists, and just about anyone who sets foot around the South Pole, are carrying bacteria and other organisms that are not indigenous to this area. For all intents and purposes, we a... |
29 April 2011
10:47 GMT |
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Given the growing number of environmental disasters taking place around the world, experts say that it would be a really good idea to certify the right of biological communities and ecosystems to be legally represented. These areas have value beyond being of use to humans. At this point, we are used to think about su... |
23 April 2011
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University of Colorado archaeologists say that the results of their latest investigations seem to suggest that humans developed their super-brain sometime around 75,000 years ago. Since then, our ever-developing cortices allowed us to become the dominant species on the planet. Yet, the data also indicate that the afo... |
22 April 2011
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Anthropologists believe that the earliest humans may have spent a lot more time eating millions of years ago then we do today. The reasons for this are multiple, and scientists say that teeth casts provide everything. In a new study, they compared such casts with those taken from other animals.The records span back t... |
19 April 2011
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Researchers have been trying to figure out why chimpanzees and bonobos behave so differently from each other for many years. In a recent study, investigators looked at the anatomical differences that exist between the brains of the two related primate species. Though they resemble each other a lot, the two brains als... |
6 April 2011
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Biologists believe that the accelerating pace of evolution humans are currently undergoing is taking its toll on our bodies, primarily through promoting the appearance of conditions such as autism and autoimmune disorders. Instances of people suffering from these once-rare conditions have gone through the roof over t... |
29 March 2011
08:15 GMT |
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Throughout the Yellowstone National Park, skeletons of dead animals permeate the landscape. In addition to adding charm to the place, they may also help experts determine what types of animal populations existed here in the past, and how many of the creatures were there. Under the Sun, the bones appear white, making ... |
29 March 2011
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New investigations conducted on rural populations that base their livelihoods on exploiting forests for generations have revealed that it is possible to still maintain biodiversity at these locations, but only under certain specific conditions. These results, published in the March 25 issue of the top journal Science... |
25 March 2011
06:58 GMT |
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In the first multi-species comparison study of aging patterns in primates, researchers discovered that humans, chimpanzees gorillas and a bunch of other primates grow old in pretty much the same, graceful way. In a research paper describing the findings – published in the March 11 issue of the top journal Scie... |
11 March 2011
08:39 GMT |
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One of the things that separate humans from bonobos, but not from chimpanzees, is violence. While the latter species have it, and display it plentifully, bonobos don't. These primates essentially live in a non-violent world. Researchers have been wondering about how they were able to do so for a while, but resea... |
7 March 2011
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Over the past few years, the number of scientists warning people that we may be heading towards a new global extinction event has been steadily growing. In a new comprehensive study, experts look at the state of affairs in the world today, and provide predictions for the future. An extinction event is when three quar... |
3 March 2011
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The mountain range containing the world's tallest peak is also one of the most important bastions of biodiversity in the world. This is why Eastern Himalayan nations have recently decided to adopt a common, unified plan of promoting adaptations to effects of climate change.The region is bound to get severely aff... |
31 January 2011
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A group of investigators managed to identify a type of internal body clock that functions 24 hours a day, in the cells of all species, regardless of complexity. The mechanism can be found in human neurons as well as in algal cells and poplar trees, for example. The same research revealed that this circadian clock in ... |
28 January 2011
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Northwestern University physics professor Adilson Motter and his student Sagar Sahasrabudhe announce the development of a new mathematical model, that is capable of detecting potential cascades of events that may lead to the collapse of food networks, and to extinction events.The model was developed as part of a larg... |
26 January 2011
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Research scientists have over the years developed methods of using the fossil record for studies of the future. The analysis of extinct species is allowing them to gain more insight into how modern-day animals response to changes in their environments and ecosystems, and scientists are on it 24/7.
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15 January 2011
03:57 GMT |
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A group of investigators argues that it managed to uncover a new mechanism through which mass extinction events can be triggered. Their explanation does not require for massive volcanic eruptions or asteroids from outer space to play a role. According to a study the group published in the December 29 issue of the ope... |
30 December 2010
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More and more in new investigations, underwater mountains are beginning to distinguish themselves as hot spots for species diversity and evolution. Though not many people know they exist, these formations may number more than 100,000 throughout the world, with a height of over 1,000 meters. Other thousands of underwa... |
3 December 2010
09:31 GMT |
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An innovative research has demonstrated for the first time in many years that life can indeed survive nearly 1,400 meters underneath the oceanic crust. This layer of the ground was until now one of the few ares on our planet where only limited numbers of studies were carried out.The microbes uncovered in this unlikel... |
3 December 2010
08:46 GMT |
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The latest issue of the esteemed journal Nature contains a paper showing that biodiversity loss can have negative consequences on the health of the general population. The correlation holds true for both animal and plant extinctions, the report indicates.In the new research, a team of experts examined the connections... |
2 December 2010
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Humans are known for being picky when it comes to eating, as demonstrated by those who are willing to starve themselves rather than eat something they don't want. The same apparently goes on in the animal world as well, with great implications for ecosystem stability. Members of more than half of all species on ... |
30 November 2010
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Coral reefs are some of the most important ecosystems in the world, and definitely some of the most remarkable in the oceans. A large concentration of them exists in the Coral Triangle, an area located in southeast Asia. Now, researchers have set to study its health.The Triangle is located in an area that can be foun... |
29 November 2010
03:11 GMT |
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According to a new investigation, it would appear that one of the most widely used indicators for assessing the health of fisheries around the world is misleading, and largely inaccurate. The study learned that using the average catch trophic level as an indicator for fish population health levels yields erroneous re... |
18 November 2010
06:21 GMT |
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Scientists have determined in a new study that wildlife reserves which cover a very large area are not necessary the most suitable places where biodiversity can thrive. Significantly better results were obtained with smaller reserves, but that were placed exactly where it was needed. Generally, people tend to declare... |
10 November 2010
10:33 GMT |
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A critically-important meeting is taking place in Nagoya, Japan this week, which deals with analyzing and deciding on the measure that will ensure the perpetuation of biodiversity on Earth.The Conference of the Parties (COP) 10 meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is a component of the main interna... |
22 October 2010
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