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Whitebark Pine Trees: Is Their Future at Risk?
June 10, 2013 — There's trouble ahead for the whitebark pine, a mountain tree that's integral to wildlife and water resources in the western United States and Canada. Over the last decade, some populations of ... > full story -
Pollinators Easily Enhanced by Flowering Agri-Environment Schemes
June 10, 2013 — European agri-environment schemes enhance wild pollinators on farmland, new research shows. The effects increased with the number of flowers brought back by the schemes. Recent studies have shown ... > full story -
Duck Genome Provides New Insight Into Fighting Bird Flu
June 9, 2013 — The duck genome consortium has completed the genome sequencing and analysis of the duck (Anas platyrhynchos), one principal natural host of influenza A viruses, which caused a new epidemic in China ... > full story -
Magpies Make Decisions Faster When Humans Look at Them
June 7, 2013 — Researchers have found that wild birds appear to "think faster" when humans, and possibly predators in general, are directly looking at ... > full story -
Stranded Orcas Hold Critical Clues for Scientists
June 7, 2013 — The development of a standardized killer-whale necropsy system has boosted the complete data from killer-whale strandings from two percent to about 33 percent, according to a recent ... > full story -
By Trying It All, Predatory Sea Slug Learns What Not to Eat
June 6, 2013 — Researchers found that a type of predatory sea slug with a simple nervous system has more complex cognitive abilities than previously thought, allowing it to learn the warning cues of dangerous prey ... > full story -
How Similar Are the Gestures of Apes and Human Infants? More Than You Might Suspect
June 6, 2013 — A new study used naturalistic video data for the first time to compare gestures in a female chimpanzee, bonobo and human ... > full story -
Gannets Don't Eat Off Each Other's Plates
June 6, 2013 — Colonies of gannets maintain vast exclusive fishing ranges despite doing nothing to defend their territory from rival colonies, scientists have ... > full story -
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How Young Genes Gain a Toehold on Becoming Indispensable
June 6, 2013 — Scientists have, for the first time, mapped a young gene’s short, dramatic evolutionary journey to becoming essential, or indispensable. The researchers detail one gene’s rapid switch to ... > full story -
How Birds Lost Their Penises: Programmed Cell Death
June 6, 2013 — In animals that reproduce by internal fertilization, as humans do, you'd think a penis would be an organ you couldn't really do without, evolutionarily speaking. Surprisingly, though, most birds do ... > full story
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