Save
Email
Print
Share
RSSBrowse News Stories
491 to 500 of 2,596 stories
view headlines only
-
Nowhere to Hide: Tigers Threatened by Human Destruction of Groundcover
February 28, 2012 — A new study is the first of its kind to systematically investigate the use of different land cover types for tiger ... > full story -
Modify Thy Ejaculate to Determine the Sex of Your Offspring
February 28, 2012 — Some animal and human populations were shown to shift their birth sex ratio from the expected unity. Using fluorescence in situ hybridisation, scientists now show that males in a captive endangered ... > full story -
Ice Age Coyotes Were Supersized Compared to Coyotes Today, Fossil Study Reveals
February 27, 2012 — Coyotes today are pint-sized compared to their Ice Age counterparts, finds a new fossil study. Between 11,500 and 10,000 years ago -- a mere blink of an eye in geologic terms -- coyotes shrunk to ... > full story -
Lifestyle of Naked Mole-Rats Holds Lifesaving Clues
February 23, 2012 — A biologist thinks the subterranean lifestyle of the naked mole-rat may hold clues to keeping brain cells alive and functioning when oxygen is scarce, as during a heart attack. The key may lie in how ... > full story -
Earliest Horses Show Past Global Warming Affected Body Size of Mammals
February 23, 2012 — As scientists continue developing climate change projection models, paleontologists studying an extreme short-term global warming event have discovered direct evidence about how mammals respond to ... > full storyMore: -
Illegal Orangutan Trader Prosecuted
February 23, 2012 — Sumatra has made its first ever successful sentence of an illegal orangutan owner and trader in Medan, North Sumatra, ... > full story -
Rare Fungus Kills Endangered Rattlesnakes in Southern Illinois
February 21, 2012 — A small population of rattlesnakes that already is in decline in southern Illinois faces a new and unexpected threat in the form of a fungus rarely seen in the wild, researchers report. The finding ... > full story -
Irish Mammals Under Serious Threat from 'Invasional Meltdown'
February 21, 2012 — Some of Ireland's oldest inhabitants are facing serious threat and possible extinction because of foreign species, according to ... > full story -
Iconic Marine Mammals Are 'Swimming in Sick Seas' of Terrestrial Pathogens
February 21, 2012 — Parasites and pathogens infecting humans, pets and farm animals are increasingly being detected in marine mammals such as sea otters, porpoises, harbor seals and killer whales along the Pacific coast ... > full story -
New Species of Bat, Hipposideros Griffini, Discovered in Vietnam
February 20, 2012 — A distinctive echolocation frequency led to the discovery of a new species of bat within the genus Hipposideros. Although this bat is similar to the species Hipposideros armiger, differences in ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 140,690
more 
