Extinction News

Posted May 11, 2008:

• Endangered Species Up The Risk Of Extinction For Other Species In Ecological Community

Posted May 10, 2008:

• Federal Polar Bear Research Critically Flawed, Forecasting Expert Asserts

Posted May 9, 2008:

• Priority Regions For Threatened Frog And Toad Conservation In Latin America
• Seed Dispersal In Mauritius -- Dead As A Dodo?

Posted May 7, 2008:

• It Started With A Squeak: Moonlight Serenade Helps Lemurs Pick Mates Of The Right Species

Posted May 6, 2008:

• Saving Frogs Before It's Too Late
• Trouble In Paradise: Global Warming A Greater Danger To Tropical Species

Posted May 2, 2008:

• Sun's Movement Through Milky Way Regularly Sends Comets Hurtling, Coinciding With Mass Life Extinctions
• Dwarf Cloud Rat Rediscovered After 112 Years

Posted April 30, 2008:

• Bison Can Thrive Again, Study Says

Posted April 29, 2008:

• Endangered Right Whales Protected With New Warning Buoys In Shipping Lanes
• Critically Endangered Seabirds Not Finding Mates

Posted April 28, 2008:

• Tropical Reforestation Aided By Bats
• When Did Dinosaurs Go Extinct? Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Dating Refined

Posted April 27, 2008:

• Dinosaurs Probably Lacked Tissue To Generate Heat

Posted April 25, 2008:

• Molecular Analysis Confirms Tyrannosaurus Rex's Evolutionary Link To Birds

Posted April 23, 2008:

• Shell-breaking Crabs Lived 20 Million Years Earlier Than Thought

Posted April 21, 2008:

• New Model Predicts Where Corals Can Thrive
• Road Kill Losses Add Up, Taxing Amphibians And Other Animals

Posted April 19, 2008:

• Almost Extinct Turtle Discovered Living In Wild In Northern Vietnam

Posted April 18, 2008:

• Presumed Extinct Javan Elephants May Have Been Found Again - In Borneo

Posted April 16, 2008:

• Bikini Corals Recover From Atomic Blast, Although Some Species Missing

Posted April 11, 2008:

• Massive Study Of Madagascar Wildlife Leads To New Conservation Roadmap

Posted April 8, 2008:

• Asian Waterbirds Stage Remarkable Comeback

Posted April 7, 2008:

• Gypsy Moth Management Made More Efficient, Cost-effective

Posted April 5, 2008:

• Coral Reefs And Climate Change: Microbes Could Be The Key To Coral Death

Posted April 3, 2008:

• Protection For Polar Bears Urged By National Wildlife Federation
• New Animal Research Method Allows For Nonlethal And Noninvasive Study In Rodents

Posted April 1, 2008:

• Climate Change And Human Hunting Combine To Drive The Woolly Mammoth Extinct

Posted March 31, 2008:

• Faster Hawaiian Tree Growth Without Adverse Ecosystem Effects

Posted March 28, 2008:

• Zoologists Unlock New Secrets About Frog Deaths

Posted March 26, 2008:

• Shorebirds' Migratory Wetland Habitat Declining Fast

Posted March 25, 2008:

• Delicate Partnership Between Coral And Algae Threatened By Global Warming

Posted March 24, 2008:

• The Song Doesn't Remain The Same In Fragmented Bird Populations

Posted March 20, 2008:

• Rwanda Conservation Effort To Link Isolated Chimps To Distant Forest

Posted March 19, 2008:

• Saving Spanish Brown Bears With Help From European Bears Might Make Sense
• Asia's Odd-ball Antelope Faces Migration Crisis

Posted March 18, 2008:

• Clovis-age Overkill Didn't Take Out California's Flightless Sea Duck
• Making Protected Areas Pay Biodiversity Dividends

Posted March 17, 2008:

• Rare North Island Brown Kiwi Hatches At Smithsonian's National Zoo

Posted March 15, 2008:

• Harlequin Frog Rediscovered In Remote Region Of Colombia

Posted March 14, 2008:

• Amphibians Respond Behaviorally To Impact Of Clear Cutting

Posted March 12, 2008:

• Arctic Climate Models Playing Key Role In Polar Bear Decision

Posted March 10, 2008:

• Rare Maud Island Frogs Hatched In New Zealand

Posted March 7, 2008:

• Tiny Polyps Need Two Kinds Of Carbon To Survive Coral Bleaching

Posted March 6, 2008:

• Beluga Sturgeon Threatened With Extinction, Yet Caviar Quotas Remain Unchanged

Posted March 4, 2008:

• Are Wolves The Pronghorn's Best Friend?

Posted March 2, 2008:

• Future ‘Battlegrounds’ for Habitat Conservation Very Different to Those in Past

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