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  Bat Maps: The Conservation Crusade

  July 2, 2013 — Conservation efforts have taken an important step forward, thanks to observations of bats -- creatures that make up a quarter of all of the UK's native mammal ... > full story
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  Molecular Analysis Reveals a New Species of White Toothed Shrew

  July 2, 2013 — Judging solely by the looks proves to be a wrong practice in biology too. A recent study of the white toothed shrew fauna of Vietnam reveals the importance of molecular analysis for the correct ... > full story
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  Curious Mix of Precision and Brawn in a Pouched Super-Predator

  July 1, 2013 — A bizarre, pouched super-predator that terrorized South America millions of years ago had huge sabre-like teeth but its bite was weaker than that of a domestic cat, new research shows. To achieve a ... > full story
• Fish
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  Survival of the Galapagos Sea Lion

  June 29, 2013 — The study shows that Galapagos sea lions (Zalophus wollebaeki) are more prone to starvation because of exposure to human influences like pets and pollution. These can impair the level of their ... > full story
• Monkeys
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  Social Networks Shape Monkey 'Culture' Too

  June 27, 2013 — Of course Twitter and Facebook are all the rage, but the power of social networks didn't start just in the digital age. A new study on squirrel monkeys finds that monkeys with the strongest social ... > full story
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  Illegal Marijuana Grows Threaten Fishers in the Southern Sierra Nevada

  June 27, 2013 — Rat poison used on illegal marijuana grows is killing fishers in the southern Sierra Nevada, according to a recent study conducted by a team of ... > full story
• Monkeys
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  Social Animals Have More Social Smarts

  June 26, 2013 — Lemurs from species that hang out in big tribes are more likely to steal food behind your back instead of in front of your face. This behavior suggests that primates who live in larger social groups ... > full story

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  Human Activities Threaten Sumatran Tiger Population

  June 26, 2013 — Wildlife researchers have found that tigers in central Sumatra live at very low densities, lower than previously ... > full story
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  Cloning Mice: For the First Time, a Donor Mouse Has Been Cloned Using a Drop of Peripheral Blood from Its Tail

  June 26, 2013 — Since Dolly the sheep in 1996, reproductive cloning has continued to advance; nearly 20 different mammalian species have now been cloned. Researchers have now developed a unique cloning procedure ... > full story
• Fossils
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  A 700,000-Year-Old Horse Gets Its Genome Sequenced

  June 26, 2013 — Scientists have just sequenced the oldest genome from a prehistoric creature. They have done so by sequencing and analyzing short pieces of DNA molecules preserved in bone-remnants from a horse that ... > full story

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