Aug. 16, 2016 Researchers are on a real-life search for what one calls 'the ultimate Pokémon': Zenkerella, an elusive scaly-tailed squirrel that has never been spotted alive by scientists. However, ...
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Aug. 16, 2016 A fossil that has been in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History since it was discovered in 1951 is today helping scientists piece together the evolutionary ...
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Aug. 16, 2016 Scientists have proposed that the long extinct marsupial lion hunted in a very unique way - by using its teeth to hold prey before dispatching them with its huge ...
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Aug. 15, 2016 A cache of exquisitely preserved bones, found in a coal mine in the state of Gujarat, India, appear to be the most primitive primate bones yet discovered, according to a new analysis. Their ...
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Aug. 11, 2016 Lions in West and Central Africa form a unique group, only distantly related to lions in East and Southern Africa, biologists have ...
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Aug. 11, 2016 Global change will strike the oldest and most complex ecosystems of the world hardest, regardless of their past stability, warn experts in a new ...
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Aug. 11, 2016 A new study that for the first time examined the internal anatomy of a fossil human relative's heel bone, or calcaneus, shows greater similarities with gorillas than ...
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Aug. 10, 2016 New study has determined that the total number of neurons, not an enlarged prefrontal region, differentiates the human brain from those of other ...
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Aug. 10, 2016 Less than a month away from the kick-off the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawaii, a team of scientists reports that three quarters of the world's threatened species are imperiled because ...
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Aug. 10, 2016 The consequences of climate change are an increasing concern for humans around the world. How will we cope with rising sea levels and climbing temperatures? But it's not just humans who will be ...
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Aug. 9, 2016 A research group has used genomic data from the exotic Malayan flying lemur (colugo) to uncover the oldest lentivirus ever identified, whose first emergence may date to as early as 60 million years ...
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Aug. 9, 2016 Researchers have sequenced mitochondrial DNA from museum specimens of rare species of deer. Analysis of partial nucleotide sequences has enabled the team to refine our picture of the evolutionary ...
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Aug. 8, 2016 Researchers found behavioral evidence that tiger sharks prefer to opportunistically scavenge on dead or weakened green turtles rather than actively hunting healthy individuals despite more ...
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Aug. 8, 2016 Biologists have discovered high levels of pesticides and other contaminants from marine mammals in the tissues of endangered California condors living near the coast that they say could complicate ...
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Aug. 4, 2016 A new study finds researchers may have been missing the mark on the diet of endangered snow leopards. The findings suggest the leopards have been consuming larger, not smaller, species, and ...
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Aug. 4, 2016 All living toothed whales rely upon echoes of their own calls to navigate and hunt underwater, a skill that works best in conjunction with high-frequency hearing. Now, researchers who studied one of ...
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Aug. 4, 2016 Biologists have made a significant advance in understanding the ecology of Sable Island and its iconic wild horses -- one that underscores how intimately connected living systems ...
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Aug. 3, 2016 The White-nose Syndrome fungus recently detected for the first time in western North America is genetically similar to strains found in the eastern United States and did not likely originate in ...
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Aug. 3, 2016 The first ever satellite tracking study of one the world's endangered seal species has revealed new information about their migration habits and hunting ...
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Aug. 2, 2016 Yaws is a tropical disease that infects the skin, bones and cartilage. It is caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue. Mostly children in remote tropical areas of Africa, ...
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