Animal News

Posted December 2, 2008:

• Discovery Of Virus In Lemur Could Shed Light On AIDS

Posted December 1, 2008:

• Antarctica Has More Species Than Galapagos, First Comprehensive Inventory Of Antarctic Life Shows
• Imitation Is Not Just Flattery For Amazon Butterfly Species

Posted November 30, 2008:

• Farming And Chemical Warfare: A Day In The Life Of An Ant
• Rabies Barrier To Save World's Rarest Wolf

Posted November 28, 2008:

• 100-meter Sprint World Record Could Go As Low As 9.48 Seconds

Posted November 27, 2008:

• Humpback Whales' Dining Habits And Energy Costs Of Feasting On Tiny Prey, Revealed
• Two From One: Evolution Of Genders From Hermaphroditic Ancestors Mapped Out
• SARS Virus Recreated: Opens Door For Potential Defenses Against Future Strains
• Exposure To Organochlorate Pollutants And Lead Weakens Animals Bones, According To Study

Posted November 25, 2008:

• 'Gray's Paradox' Solved: Researchers Discover Secret Of Speedy Dolphins
• E. Coli Bacteria Transferring Between Humans And Mountain Gorillas
• Robotic Lizards Help Prove Long-standing Signaling Theory
• Flies May Reveal Evolutionary Step To Live Birth
• Climate Change Wiped Out Cave Bears 13 Millennia Earlier Than Thought
• Solar-powered Sea-slugs Live Like Plants

Posted November 24, 2008:

• 21st Century Plague? Rat Fleas Spread Heart-damaging Bacteria
• When It Comes To What's For Dinner, Baboon Society Is No Democracy
• Dolphin Population Stunted By Fishing Activities, Study Finds

Posted November 23, 2008:

• Sea Eagles May Be Re-Introduced To England

Posted November 21, 2008:

• Discovery Of Giant Roaming Deep Sea Protist Provides New Perspective On Animal Evolution

Posted November 20, 2008:

• Darwin Was Right About How Evolution Can Affect Whole Group
• Woolly-mammoth Genome Sequenced
• Turtles Alter Nesting Dates Due To Temperature Change

Posted November 19, 2008:

• Floppy-footed Gibbons Help Us Understand How Early Humans May Have Walked

Posted November 18, 2008:

• Low Concentrations Of Pesticides Can Become Toxic Mixture For Amphibians

Posted November 14, 2008:

• Dinosaur Whodunit: Solving A 77-million-year-old Mystery

Posted November 12, 2008:

• Commercial Poultry Lack Genetic Diversity, Are Vulnerable To Avian Flu And Other Threats
• Ice Age Beasts In Europe: Migration Of The Woolly Rhinoceros Earlier Than Assumed

Posted November 11, 2008:

• Limb Loss In Lizards: Evidence For Rapid Evolution
• Web-spinning Spiders And 'Wannabe Butterflies' Head To Space Shuttle
• In The Absence Of Sexual Prospects, Parasitic Male Worms Go Spermless

Posted November 9, 2008:

• Smaller Mosquitoes Are More Likely To Be Infected With Viruses Causing Human Diseases

Posted November 8, 2008:

• Sea Snakes Seek Out Freshwater To Slake Thirst

Posted November 7, 2008:

• Unraveling Lion's Natural History Using Host And Virus Population Genomics
• Social Interactions Can Alter Gene Expression In Brain, And Vice Versa

Posted November 6, 2008:

• Death By Hyperdisease: How DNA Detective Work Explains Extinction Of Christmas Island's Native Rats
• West Nile's North American Spread Described
• DNA Chunks, Chimps And Humans: Marks Of Differences Between Human And Chimp Genomes

Posted November 5, 2008:

• 'Junk' DNA Proves Functional; Helps Explain Human Differences From Other Species

Posted November 4, 2008:

• Roads Bring Death And Fear To Forest Elephants

Posted November 3, 2008:

• Critically Endangered Fruit Bat Make Dramatic Return From Brink Of Extinction
• Study Rules Out Inbreeding As Cause Of Amphibian Deformities
• World's Rarest Big Cat Gets A Check-up

Posted November 1, 2008:

• Inland Ants Often Prefer Salt Over Sugar, Implying Salt May Be A Limitation On Their Activity

Posted October 31, 2008:

• Extinct Sabertooth Cats Were Social, Found Strength In Numbers, Study Shows
• Mysterious Bat Disease Decimates Colonies: Newly Identified Fungus Implicated In White-nose Syndrome

Posted October 29, 2008:

• Global Warming Is Killing Frogs And Salamanders In Yellowstone Park, Researchers Say

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