Why Did Six Highly-Endangered Whales Suddenly Die? : Animals : Nature World News

Six North American right whales have mysteriously turned up dead within the past few weeks and now conservationists are doing everything they can to find out why.


Researchers claim the whales seemed relatively healthy, leaving no explanation of how they washed up in the Gulf of St....

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Scott Disick Cozies Up to Mystery Woman at Vegas Club

Another day, another Las Vegas visit for Scott Disick.
The self-proclaimed Lord headed to Sin City on Saturday for some fun in the sun, dinner and a show. Of course, he capped off his Vegas visit with a little nightclub mingling at his go-to spot, 1 OAK.
After entering the nightclub just...

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Scientists Use DNA to Crack Ancient Case of Bizarre Creature : Animals : Nature World News

Thousands of years ago, a creature existed that didn’t really seem to fit into any classification. Their body parts were a mish-mash of characteristics from different animals: legs of a skinny rhino, face like an antelope and a body like a humpless camel, a report from...

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Woman with Rare Disorder That Causes Baggy Skin Dreams of Becoming a Model

Sara Geurts is done hiding her skin. The 26-year-old has Ehlers-Danlos, a rare genetic disorder that causes her skin to sag. After spending many years embarrassed by her condition, Geurts is now showing off her skin — and hopes to inspire others through modeling.
Geurts says she first...

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America’s Arctic could soon open up to a new wave of risky offshore oil and gas drilling | Stories

Despite protections put in place last year, America’s fragile and treasured Arctic could soon open up to a new wave of risky oil and gas drilling.
Every five years, the US Department of Interior creates a plan that says where oil and gas companies can purchase leases for offshore drilling....

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Aggressive Tick Could Cause Meat Allergy in Humans : Animals : Nature World News

Health experts are warning everyone to be extra cautious this summer due to the increasing incidence people getting bitten by ticks and suddenly developing an allergy to red meats.


The bite of the so-called Lone Star tick can trigger certain antibodies that can result to severe reactions...

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Lily Collins Hits Beach in Italy After Regaining Weight

Lily Collins is taking a break from her busy schedule to enjoy some fun in the sun!
Collins, 28, was spotted in Italy on Monday, where she attended the Ischia Film Festival to promote her new Netflix drama To the Bone.
The actress lost a significant amount of weight to play a woman battling...

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Increasing Urban Temperature Could Negatively Affect Wild Bee Population : Animals : Nature World News

It has been well established that the use of toxic pesticides and disease outbreaks are the main driver of the declining bee population. However, a new study from North Carolina State University revealed that the increasing urban temperatures can also contribute to the decreasing bee...

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FULL EPISODE | People Now Monday July 17, 2017

Julianne Hough Rings in Honeymoon With Special Pic, Plus We’re Live With RHOC‘s Vicki Gunvalson!
Come back every day at 8:30 a.m. EST to watch People Now streaming live from Time Inc. headquarters in New York City, and rebroadcast at 11:30 am EST. Get the absolute latest in celebrity...

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80-Year-Old Badass Fights Rabid Bobcat and Wins : Animals : Nature World News

For the second time this month, a woman in New England has taken down a rabid critter and lived to tell about it.


New Hampshire woman Elise Dabrowski was gardening on Sunday at her Sunapee home when a raging bobcat jumped from the bushes and started biting her face, arm, and back.
Of all...

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Sylvester Stallone Posts Rare Photo of Rocky Deleted Scene

Made on a budget of just over $1 million and shot in less than a month, Rocky is one of Hollywood’s biggest success stories — becoming the highest-grossing film of 1976, spawning a series of sequels and spinoffs, and going on to win three Oscars including Best Picture.
Though Sylvester...

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Movie "47 Meters Down" Gets Sharks All Wrong : Animals : Nature World News

The new movie “47 Meters Down” is an affront to science and ocean biology. It stars Mandy Moore, so I will assume it is also an affront to acting in general. But I’ll stick to the science, which is bad enough.


The basic premise: Two sisters go shark cage diving in Mexico....

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Rob Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian Have 'Dance Party' 1 Week After Meltdown

 
While Rob Kardashian‘s famous family has yet to publicly comment on his ongoing drama with Blac Chyna, it appears that he’s been spending time with at least one of his sisters in the wake of the news: Khloé.
While she didn’t capture him on camera, Khloé indicated on Snapchat on...

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‘Sea Pickles’ Are Invading The West Coast : Animals : Nature World News

Sea cucumbers (also known as “sea pickles” or pyrosomes) are slimy, translucent creatures. And lately they’ve become a nuisance along the US West Coast, leaving scientists confused and slightly hungry.


In fact, some fishermen claim that they’re unable to catch...

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Texas Teen Electrocuted While Trying to Use Phone in Bathtub

A 14-year-old Texas girl is dead after she was electrocuted while trying to use her cell phone as she took a bath on Sunday, the family says.
Madison Coe, of Lubbock, was at her father’s home in Lovington, New Mexico, over the weekend when she either plugged her phone into a bathroom outlet...

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Birds in Mexico City Have Taken Up Cigarettes to Protect Their Young : Animals : Nature World News

Urbanization has all sorts of side effects. Birds have been shown to adapt their calls, their nesting places and activity rhythms to fit the urban environments. In Mexico City, urbanization is forcing birds to use what they can find to help build their nests and keep parasites away.


One...

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Nanoengineers create liquid-solid composites using clues from nature -- ScienceDaily

Materials scientists at Rice University are looking to nature — at the discs in human spines and the skin in ocean-diving fish, for example — for clues about designing materials with seemingly contradictory properties — flexibility and stiffness.

In research appearing...

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Study warns about the impact of the carp in shallow lakes with high ecological value for the preservation of waterbirds -- ScienceDaily

The presence of the carp, a freshwater invasive species spread worldwide, is alarmingly reducing the populations of diving ducks and waterbirds, according to a study published in the journal Biological Conservation by the researchers Alberto Maceda Veiga, from the Biodiversity Research...

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Identifying hotspots is essential to managing mosquito-borne disease -- ScienceDaily

A new study published in the Journal of Medical Entomology reports that in Baltimore, Maryland, neighborhoods with high levels of residential abandonment are hotspots for tiger mosquitoes (Aedes albopictus). This environmental injustice may leave low-income urban residents more vulnerable to...

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Baker's yeast can help plants cope with soil contamination -- ScienceDaily

Most plant species, including crops, cannot tolerate the toxic effects of soil pollutants, which dramatically impair their growth and development. In a study now published in Scientific Reports*, a research team led by Paula Duque from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC; Portugal)...

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3 Kids Shot, 1 Woman Killed at Gender Reveal Party in Ohio

Three children were hospitalized in Ohio Saturday night after a shooter allegedly opened fire on a gender reveal party in Cincinnati, killing one woman and injuring nine total, according to multiple reports.
Police arrived at the home on Capstan Drive at around 11:20 p.m. to find a woman...

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How do bats out-maneuver their prey? -- ScienceDaily

Bats catch food ‘on the wing’ without touching the ground, but how do they do it? A new study by Per Henningsson at Lund University, Sweden is the first of its kind to analyse the aerodynamics of bats performing manoeuvers during flight.

“This physically demanding feat...

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Scientists have found that the odds of dying with a malaria infection are lower when the host eats lower amounts of food -- ScienceDaily

Even though malaria still kills one child every minute, the vast majority of those infected still survive, with roughly 200 million new infections every year. A new study has shown that the infectious agent responsible for malaria, the Plasmodium parasite, is able to to sense and actively...

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Why does a Yellowstone microorganism prefer meager rations over rich ones? -- ScienceDaily

Arizona State University geoscientist Everett Shock has collaborated with a team of life scientists from Montana State University to discover a puzzle at the junction of geochemistry and biology.

The puzzle, which has no solution yet, is: Why would a microorganism thriving in a hot spring...

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Climate change threatens domestic bee species -- ScienceDaily

There are around 550 different bee species in Germany. Most of them are solitary bees. They don’t live in large beehives like the honeybee, but each female bee often builds multiple nests and feeds her offspring alone. Solitary bees use their short lifespan of a few weeks exclusively to...

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Saving the paintbrush lily from extinction -- ScienceDaily

A major effort is underway to conserve the last remaining 60 individual paintbrush lilies (Haemanthus pumilio) in the Duthie Nature Reserve in Stellenbosch, South Africa, as well as increase the population through micropropagation.

Martin Smit, curator of the Stellenbosch University...

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New research provides the first biological map of priority areas that capture several dimensions of mammalian biodiversity -- ScienceDaily

Right now, a prairie dog in Colorado is busy increasing soil carbon retention, increasing water infiltration, and clipping vegetation that will help maintain local grasslands and provide nutritious forage for large herbivores like cattle and bison. And, somewhere in Mexico, a pollinating bat...

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Fish prefer to swim with sporty shoalmates -- ScienceDaily

Just like humans, many fish like to surround themselves with active companions — but frisky friends also make for fierce competition. New research from PhD student, Ms Anna Persson, and a team of researchers from the University of Glasgow, UK reveals that minnows would rather swim with...

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Largest study of its kind helps illuminate unseen connections between whale populations -- ScienceDaily

Scientists conducting the first circum-global assessment of mitochondrial DNA variation in the Southern Hemisphere’s humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) have found that whales faithfully returning to calving grounds year after year play a major role in how populations form,...

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Birds' migration genes are conditioned by geography -- ScienceDaily

The genetic make-up of a willow warbler determines where it will migrate when winter comes. Studies of willow warblers in Sweden, Finland and the Baltic States show that “migration genes” differ — depending on where the birds breed in the summer. The willow warblers that...

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Findings suggest that Spiroplasma bacteria use arsenal of toxins to defend against several enemies -- ScienceDaily

Bacteria of the Spiroplasma genus produce toxic, ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) that appear to protect their symbiotic host flies against parasitic wasps, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens.

Spiroplasma bacteria were already known to protect some Drosophila flies...

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Dragline silk from golden orb weaver spiders dissipates energy to prevent spinning -- ScienceDaily

The last time you watched a spider drop from the ceiling on a line of silk, it likely descended gracefully on its dragline instead of spiraling uncontrollably, because spider silk has an unusual ability to resist twisting forces.

In a new paper appearing this week in Applied Physics Letters,...

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Fern fossil data clarifies origination and extinction of species -- ScienceDaily

Throughout the history of life, new groups of species have flourished at the expense of earlier ones and global biodiversity has varied dramatically over geologic time. A new study led by the University of Turku, Finland, shows that completely different factors regulate the rise and fall of...

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Lorde Doesn't Consider Herself in Taylor Swift's Squad

It may no longer be a green light to consider Lorde a member of Taylor Swift’s squad.
The 20-year-old New Zealand pop star revealed to Australian Yahoo affiliate Sunrise that, for her, the allure of a celebrity friend circle doesn’t fit her social life.
“I don’t hang out with these people at...

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Mountain Lions Are Terrified Of One Thing -- The Sound Of A Human Voice : Animals : Nature World News

Apparently, Rush Limbaugh’s voice is scary enough to send a mountain lion running the other way.


According to a new study conducted by the University of California, mountain lions (also known as pumas) flee at the sound of humans. In this case, it was the sound of Rush Limbaugh and...

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How cats and cows protect farm children from asthma -- ScienceDaily

It is a known fact that microbes on farms protect children from asthma and allergies. But even non-microbial molecules can have a protective effect: Immunologists from the University of Zurich have shown that a sialic acid found in farm animals is effective against inflammation of lung...

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Exposing threatened species to predators improves evasive behaviors -- ScienceDaily

A study of burrowing bettongs in the Australian desert has shown for the first time that exposing threatened native animals to small numbers of predators in the wild teaches them how to avoid their enemies.

The little Australian marsupials, Bettongia leseuer, were once widespread across...

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A leaf-litter frog has twice the bacterial richness in continuous forest than in fragments -- ScienceDaily

The diversity of microbes on the skin of frog species in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest can vary with habitat, according to a study published July 5, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Ananda Brito de Assis from University of São Paulo, Brazil, and colleagues.

Skin bacteria can help...

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Controlling memory by triggering specific brain waves during sleep -- ScienceDaily

Have you ever tried to recall something just before going to sleep and then wake up with the memory fresh in your mind? While we absorb so much information during the day consciously or unconsciously, it is during shut eye that a lot of facts are dispatched to be filed away or fall into...

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Long-term sexual intimidation may be widespread in primate societies -- ScienceDaily

After observing the mating habits of chacma baboons living in the wild over a four-year period, researchers have found that males of the species often use long-term sexual intimidation to control their mates. The findings reported in Current Biology on July 6 suggest that this mating strategy...

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Restoration efforts bolster population of endangered piping plovers -- ScienceDaily

High water on Lake Ontario, urbanization of the New Jersey shore and a growing predator population are among the challenges facing one of America’s iconic shorebirds and the conservationists determined to restore the bird’s population.

Piping plovers are found along the Atlantic...

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Hot imagery of wintering bats suggests group behavior for battling white-nose syndrome -- ScienceDaily

Hot new imagery from temperature-sensing cameras suggests that bats who warm up from hibernation together throughout the winter may be better at surviving white nose syndrome, a disease caused by a cold-loving fungus ravaging insect-eating bat populations in the United States and Canada. The...

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New pestivirus that attacks the nervous system of Austrian pigs -- ScienceDaily

So-called “shaking piglets” have symptoms that resemble those of the classical swine fever, with extensive damage to the brain and the spinal cord. The viral origin of the disease was clarified only recently with the discovery in Europe and the USA of an atypical porcine...

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In the egg, American bullfrogs learn how to avoid becoming lunch -- ScienceDaily

When exposed to potential predators as an embryo, the invasive American bullfrog becomes harder to kill when it becomes a tadpole, according to a new study by Oregon State University researchers.

Tadpoles that hide more and develop faster when predators are present have better chances at...

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Flying fish give clues to 'tandem wing' airplane design -- ScienceDaily

Ribbon halfbeak are a species of fish with the ability to fly above the sea surface — but unlike true ‘flying fish’, they lack the necessary hind wing fins. So how do they fly? Dr Yoshinobu Inada from Tokai University, Japan says, “Investigating the design of ribbon...

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Removal of invasive shrub could be an easy way to help reduce malaria transmission -- ScienceDaily

Removing the flowers of an invasive shrub from mosquito-prone areas might be a simple way to help reduce malaria transmission, according to a new study published in the open access Malaria Journal. Removing the flowers from villages in Mali decreased the local mosquito vector population by...

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New plant species discovered in new national park in Australia -- ScienceDaily

A team of botanists from the US has named a new bush tomato species, based on collections made by their Australian colleagues, during government-funded surveys in a brand new national park.

After looking at collections from biodiversity surveys of a 10,000 km2 area now known as Limmen...

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Prince Philip Charms the Ladies in Top Hat at Scottish Tea Party

Prince Philip was in top form in his top hat and long tailcoat as he met guests at a garden party alongside Queen Elizabeth at their Scottish palace, Holyroodhouse on Tuesday.
The royal, 96, was all smiles as he chatted to former Wrens — members of the Women’s Royal Naval Service  — about...

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Praying mantises hunt down birds worldwide -- ScienceDaily

A study by zoologists from Switzerland and the US shows: praying mantises all over the globe also include birds in their diet. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology has just published the results.

Praying mantises are carnivorous insects with powerful raptorial front legs that usually depend on...

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88 percent of living frogs originated from an evolutionary radiation beginning at K-Pg boundary -- ScienceDaily

Most of the frogs alive today owe a big thank you to the asteroid or comet that delivered the coup de grace to the dinosaurs.

A new study by Chinese and American biologists shows that if the calamity had not wiped the planet clean of most terrestrial life 66 million years ago, 88 percent of...

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Boaty McBoatface returns home from abyss -- ScienceDaily

Researchers at the University of Southampton have captured unprecedented data about some of the coldest abyssal ocean waters on earth — known as Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) — during first voyage of the yellow robotic submersible known as Boaty McBoatface, which arrived back in...

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Four Corners potato previously unknown part of ancient human diet -- ScienceDaily

The town of Escalante in southern Utah is no small potatoes when it comes to scientific discovery; a new archaeological finding within its borders may rewrite the story of tuber domestication.

Researchers from the Natural History Museum of Utah and Red Butte Garden at the University of Utah...

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Scientists study changes in the biodiversity of California's sandy beaches by comparing decades-old data with new field observations -- ScienceDaily

And to think it was all right there in her garage.

A load of boxes pulled from biologist Dale Straughan’s home yielded a veritable treasure trove for UC Santa Barbara researchers studying the impact of climate change on coastal biodiversity in California.
To Jenifer Dugan, a research...

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Researchers track 35-year trends for more than 40 steelhead populations, find significant declines in juvenile survival -- ScienceDaily

Steelhead trout are entrenched in the economy, ecology, and culture of the Pacific Northwest. Declining numbers of steelhead in the rivers flowing through British Columbia, Washington state, and Oregon are troubling fishers and fisheries managers alike. A new study published today in the...

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High pregnancy failure, nutritional stress in southern resident killer whales -- ScienceDaily

A multi-year survey of the nutritional, physiological and reproductive health of endangered southern resident killer whales suggests that up to two-thirds of pregnancies failed in this population from 2007 to 2014. The study links this orca population’s low reproductive success to...

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The curious case of the ostrich's double kneecap -- ScienceDaily

Ostriches are the only animals in the world to have a double-kneecap, but its purpose remains an evolutionary mystery. PhD student, Ms Sophie Regnault, from the Royal Veterinary College, UK says “understanding more about different kneecap configurations in different animals could help...

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Slow-growing ponderosas survive mountain pine beetle outbreaks -- ScienceDaily

Slow-growing ponderosa pines may have a better chance of surviving mountain pine beetle outbreaks in western Montana as climate change increases the frequency of drought and insect pests, according to new research published by a team of University of Montana scientists.

The team of...

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Within host cells, partner viruses may exchange genetic material and evolve together over time -- ScienceDaily

Defective viruses incorporated into grass genomes may adapt to form partnerships with other genome-incorporated viruses in order to complete their life cycle, according to a new PLOS Pathogens study. The findings suggest that partner viruses evolve in concert, enabling them to maintain their...

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Kim Kardashian West Hosts Massive Family BBQ

BBQ at the Wests’ house!
Kim Kardashian West began her Fourth of July celebrations early with a star-studded cookout over the weekend, in which she prepared a massive feast for her family and stars like 2 Chainz and L.A. Reid.
Kardashian West, 36, flaunted her cooking skills on Snapchat,...

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WWF and Tiger Beer Engage to Help Rangers and Protect Tigers | Stories

Once found in diverse habitats across Asia, the world’s wild tiger population has shrunk by an alarming 96 per cent in the last century due to illegal tiger trade, poaching and habitat loss. Today, the world is at risk of losing this iconic species completely, with as few as 3,890 tigers...

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Antarctica’s Plant, Animal Life Threatened by Increasing Ice-Free Areas : Animals : Nature World News

A new study revealed that the increasing ice-free areas in Antarctica could negatively affect the plant and animal life that are unique in the continent.


The study, published in the journal Nature, showed that the ice-free area in Antarctica could increase to 25 percent by 2100 if the...

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Surprising insights into properties of butterfly wings -- ScienceDaily

A collaboration between biologists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania is yielding new insights into the wings of the “skipper butterfly” in the Costa Rican rainforest. What they learn could lead to technological advancements in systems ranging from...

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Tracking bacterial movement between humans, animals key to understanding antibiotic resistance -- ScienceDaily

Ecologists frequently tag animals in the wild, monitoring their movements and activities to gain a greater understanding of the species’ behaviors and lifestyle.

Benjamin Koch is one of the first ecologists to propose doing the same with bacteria.
Koch, an assistant research professor...

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The Black Forest and climate change -- ScienceDaily

As the climate change progresses, droughts are expected to become more and more common and more intense in Europe, as in many parts of the globe. However, many plants are not able to handle this kind of climate. This includes the Norway spruce, which is Germany’s most important...

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The Black Forest and climate change -- ScienceDaily

As the climate change progresses, droughts are expected to become more and more common and more intense in Europe, as in many parts of the globe. However, many plants are not able to handle this kind of climate. This includes the Norway spruce, which is Germany’s most important...

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Biodiversity loss from deep-sea mining will be unavoidable -- ScienceDaily

Biodiversity losses from deep-sea mining are unavoidable and possibly irrevocable, an international team of 15 marine scientists, resource economists and legal scholars argue in a letter published today in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The experts say the International Seabed Authority...

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Oviraptorosaurs incubated their eggs with their bodies within a 35–40° C range -- ScienceDaily

A new method used to perform geochemical analysis of fossilized eggs from China has shown that oviraptorosaurs incubated their eggs with their bodies within a 35-40° C range, similar to extant birds today. This finding is the result of Franco-Chinese collaboration coordinated by Romain Amiot...

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Ecologists helps measure impact of top predators through time -- ScienceDaily

An ecological filter in a pond, such as voracious fish that feed on dragonflies and damselflies, can help ecologists predict how biodiversity loss may impact specific habitats, according to Rice University researchers who spent four years studying seasonal changes in ponds across East...

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Mistaken identity of East Asian vine species resolved after 100 years -- ScienceDaily

New light has been shed on a misclassified vine species in the Ryukyu Islands of East Asia. This plant was first discovered in 1917 in Taiwan, when it was provisionally identified as Kadsura japonica. The plant was recently spotted again after 100 years, and further investigation proved that...

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Shania Twain on Opening of CMHOF Exhibit

What Shania Twain fan could look at that top hat, thigh-high boots and full-length black trenchcoat and not remember the sexy seductions of her “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” video?
Twain looks at the stunning outfit, and she remembers something else: pain.
“Videos, especially, are so difficult,...

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An Amur tiger’s journey back into the wild | Stories

In mid-October of 2016, a sighting of an Amur tiger in the city of Vladivostok caused a sensation. Pictures and videos of the tiger, lost in the concrete jungle of the city, appeared in the headlines of local news and even got international attention. Despite efforts from the police, ranger...

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The trouble with being a handsome bird -- ScienceDaily

Male birds often use brightly colored plumage to be attractive to females. However, such eye-catching trimmings may also attract unwanted attention from predators. Now, a new study led by Monash University has found that showy males indeed perceive themselves to be at a greater risk of...

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