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Bats Not Bothered by Forest Fires, Study Finds
March 6, 2013 A survey of bat activity in burned and unburned areas after a major wildfire in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains found no evidence of detrimental effects on bats one year after the fire. The ... > full story -
New Fossils of Crocodilian, Hippo-Like Species from Panama
March 5, 2013 Paleontologists have discovered remarkably well-preserved fossils of two crocodilians and a mammal previously unknown to science during recent Panama Canal excavations that began in ... > full storyMore: -
Ancient DNA Solves 320-Year-Old Mystery: Origins of Now Extinct Falkland Islands Wolf
March 5, 2013 Researchers have found the answer to one of natural history's most intriguing puzzles -- the origins of the now extinct Falkland Islands wolf and how it came to be the only land-based mammal on the ... > full story -
Viruses: More Survival Tricks Than Previously Thought
March 5, 2013 Among eukaryotes with modified nuclear genetic codes, viruses are unknown. Until now it had been believed that the modifications to the genetic code effectively prevented new viral infections. ... > full story -
One Law to Rule Them All: Sizes Within a Species Appear to Follow a Universal Distribution
March 4, 2013 Biologists have discovered what might be a universal property of size distributions in living systems. If valid throughout the animal kingdom, it could have profound implications on how we understand ... > full story -
Don't Be Fooled: Flowers Mislead Traditional Taxonomy
March 4, 2013 For hundreds of years, plant taxonomists have worked to understand how species are related. Until relatively recently, their only reliable source of information about these relationships was the ... > full story -
Problems With Identifying Meat? The Answer Is to Check the Barcode
February 28, 2013 Want to know what you are eating? DNA barcodes can be used to identify even very closely related species, finds a new article. Results from the study show that the labelling of game meat in South ... > full story -
New Marine Species Discovered in Pacific Ocean
February 28, 2013 An international expedition in Papua New Guinea has found a new species of sea slugs, feather stars and amphipods, a shrimp-like ... > full story -
Reducing Numbers of One Carnivore Species Indirectly Leads to Extinction of Others
February 28, 2013 Previous studies have shown that carnivores can have indirect positive effects on each other, which means that when one species is lost, others could soon follow. Biologists have now found that ... > full story -
Giant Cockroach Genus Pseudophoraspis Expands to the North With 3 New Species
February 28, 2013 Three new species of the giant cockroach genus Pseudophoraspis have been discovered in the Hainan, Yunnan and Guangxi provinces of China. The three newly described cockroaches, together with another ... > full story
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